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phasmolab

How It Works

The generator is built to never hand you a broken run. Here's what happens under the hood.

Five steps

1. Pick your categories

Toggle the rule categories you want in the pool. Map and Base Difficulty are single-pick; the rest each contribute one rule to the run.

2. Choose solo or team

Solo mode hides team-only rules like pairing, van duty and "investigate alone". Switch to Team to bring them back.

3. Generate

Every rule is checked against the others, the map size and the difficulty, so you never get a contradictory or impossible run.

4. Lock & re-roll

Keep the rules you like by locking them, then re-roll everything else until the run feels right.

5. Share

The whole challenge is encoded into a link. Send it to friends or a streamer - open it and the exact run loads back up.

Difficulty rating

Each rule carries a weight from 1 (minor inconvenience) to 5 (run-defining). The rating averages the weight of the active rules. Map size and base difficulty show as separate badges - they don't distort the rule score.

Casual 1.0 – 1.7
Challenging 1.8 – 2.5
Hard 2.6 – 3.3
Brutal 3.4 – 4.2
Insane 4.3 – 5.0
Conflict safety

Some rules can't coexist - you can't be told to "investigate alone" and "stay within 5m of a teammate" in the same run. The generator knows every such pairing and skips any rule that would clash with one already in your challenge. It also resolves equipment-specific rules first (so "No {equipment}" picking Incense won't appear next to "Can't use Incense to stop a hunt"), and suppresses Cursed Possession rules on Insanity, where no cursed item spawns.

Categories
Mappick one

Which location to play.

Base Difficultypick one

The in-game preset to load.

Equipment

How gear is carried, used, tiered, and managed.

Movement

How players may move and position themselves.

Communication

Voice and coordination limits.

Evidence & Investigation

How evidence is gathered and the ghost identified.

Sanity & Survival

Sanity management and staying alive.

Hunts

Behaviour during an active hunt.

Photo & Media

Photos, video, and Sound Recorder objectives.

Cursed Possessions

Rules tied to the seven cursed items.

Team & Roles

Roles, pairing, and van duty.

Wildcards

Silly, roleplay, and chaos modifiers.