How to Finish the Sunny Meadows Survival Challenge in Phasmophobia

Phasmophobia has a lot of “grindy” challenges that revolve around completing certain tasks in a specific location multiple times until you get the reward. The Sunny Meadows Survival challenge, introduced first in the Halloween Blood Moon event in 2024, falls under this category, where you must finish a task 50 times to finish the challenge. That is a lot of ghost-hunting matches. Here’s the best way to finish the Sunny Meadows Survival challenge in Phasmophobia to save time and get that Asylum ID card and badge fast.

How to Finish the Sunny Meadows Survival Challenge in Phasmophobia

The Sunny Meadows Survival challenge requires you to correctly identify the ghost and survive while playing in the Sunny Meadows Mental Institution (the small one would suffice). Finishing this task 50 times will finish the challenge and earn you the Asylum ID card and badge.

There is no workaround for the challenge, and you must play the map naturally to finish the challenge. You can play multiplayer games and hope someone is hosting the same map and is going for the same challenge.

However, you can also choose a fast but boring strategy and finish the challenge in single-player.

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Best Way to Finish the Sunny Meadows Survival Challenge in Phasmophobia

If you don’t have any friends to grind the challenge with, it is much easier to finish it in single-player if you get used to the map, mechanics, and a fast strategy.

The Sunny Meadows Mental Institute has two variants: the original and the restricted. Playing the restricted version, which is the smaller map, will also count towards the progress of the challenge. This is the map you want to play as a solo player, as the original version is too big for one person.

Setup or loadout:

• Basic Set (free)
• 1x Sanity Restoration

This is basically all you need, but you can also upgrade some tools to your preference, such as a better flashlight or video camera.

The layout of Sunny Meadows Restricted is a simple lobby with two adjacent rooms at the entrance. If you go straight, you’ll see the altar room. All of these are fixed. However, the restricted version has three variants: opened basement leading to a long hallway with multiple rooms, a long hallway to the left of the altar room, and a long hallway to the right of the altar room.

In short, there will always be a long hallway with multiple rooms, and you’ll want to check these out at every match.

General Strategy

• Pick up a video camera, notebook, and a spirit box.
• Use a video camera as your “guide” to go through every room and look for ghost orbs in the small Sunny Meadows map. (Try asking, “Can you give us a sign?” so that the ghost becomes active).
• If you find a ghost orb, you can place the notebook on the floor and switch to the spirit box to try to communicate with the ghost.
• If you don’t find the ghost orb, switch to the spirit box and try to communicate with the ghost as you go back to the van.
• At this point, you should have some clue where the ghost is staying, and you should grab a DOTS Projector, UV light, and a thermometer to gather three more pieces of evidence.
• Use every tool in the ghost room, gather all the evidence you need, and get out as fast as possible.

The last three steps are where your experience in Phasmophobia will come in, as you need to decipher some clues outside of your natural tools. Did the ghost interact by throwing multiple objects at once? – possible Poltergeist. You can also use our cheat sheet if you aren’t used to certain mechanics yet.

However, identifying the ghost room relies heavily on your ears. When you say, “Can you give us a sign?” the ghost will eventually do something, such as throw objects, whisper at you, or close and open doors and lights. When it does something, you need to immediately go to where the paranormal activity happened and maybe use a UV Light to check for Ultraviolet evidence, which is one of the easiest pieces of evidence to get.

The purpose of the strategy above is always to secure the ghost orb evidence while hoping to get a response out of the spirit box. If you thoroughly check all the rooms with your video camera, you can safely cross out ghost orbs if they don’t show up. Since you are playing single-player, using the spirit box will also be easier as the ghost is forced to respond to you even if the certain ghost type only talks to people who are alone.

Once you get these two pieces of evidence locked up, the next ones are easy. The EMF Reader will be the hardest, which is why the strategy above refrains from using that tool, but it is also useful if you want to force all the evidence out. In cases where you are struggling to get more pieces of evidence, you can use sanity restoration pills to prevent the ghost from hunting.

With this strategy, you’ll surely get an 80-90% success rate on your ghost guesses, and it’ll also take less than 10 minutes per match (maybe even less than 5 minutes).