How to fix Phasmophobia Failed to Connect to Steam Issue on PC

Ali Hashmi

4 years ago

Phasmophobia is an online co-op psychological horror Kinectic Games. At the moment, the game is released as an Early Access title, so there are some technical issues. If you are on PC, and are running into the Phasmophobia Failed to Connect to steam issue, here is how you can fix it.

For three weeks straight, Phansmophobia has been the number one top seller, even during the Halloween sale. It has a peak player count of 112K according to Steamcharts which is massive for a game developed on such a small scale.

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1 Phasmophobia Failed to Connect to Steam

1.1 LAUNCH STEAM AS ADMIN

1.2 Linux Fix

2 PHASMOPHOBIA SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

2.1 MINIMUM

2.2 RECOMMENDED

Phasmophobia Failed to Connect to Steam

If you are running into an issue, here Phasmophobia refused to connect to Steam, you can follow the steps below to fix that.

LAUNCH STEAM AS ADMIN

Try launching Steam client as Admin. To do this, follow the steps below.

Right-click on the Steam icon, and click Properties
Now, head into the Compatability tab
Here, check “Run this program as an administrator“
Relaunch Steam

This is demonstrated below.

Linux Fix

Make sure your Proton settings are set to force steam to use the latest version of Proton.

While you are here, make sure you check out our other guides for the game as well.

PHASMOPHOBIA SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

To run the game on PC, you need the following specifications

MINIMUM

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64Bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 / AMD FX 8350
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 13 GB available space
Additional Notes: Minimum Specs are for VR, lower specs may work for Non-VR.