For an initial release this is already quite solid. It has all of the foundation in place, a gameplay loop that is playable, and as much game as sexual content. I absolutely love the more dynamic gameplay style as what you are pulling from your inspiration, Phasmophobia. What I find is that when being hunted the current map is way too linear and filled with dead ends, this makes it absurdly difficult to complete a mission without purchasing the Incense and could even be a cause of soft locking later on.

I do look forward to the father development of this project in parallel to HTA as I love more dynamic gameplay games and will be eagerly awaiting more ghosts, maps, and even side characters if those are planned.

Soft lock? A video of this issue would help me understand it.

Try remembering hiding spot before collecting evidence or completing mission. Once you see Hunting text on screen dash towards the hiding spot that's not in direct sight of ghost. There are 5 hiding spots in current map.

While not entirely a "soft lock" in the actual term it does make it really hard to recover from early mistakes. When I was first starting the game I was getting caught quite a bit as I was finding out controls and tools even with the guide screen. After a little while I found myself with little funds to purchase equipment like the incense to get out of those precarious situations. It gets a bit more tricky as I found the ghost can see you enter a hiding spot from across the long hallways where you cannot see the ghost. This makes it a bit tricky to dash into the closet in the entry hall and if close behind you it can easily trap you in the bedroom, living room, and garage where it could be a bit difficult to get to those hiding places before the ghost enters the room.

It didn't take me too long to learn the patterns of the current limited number of ghosts to the point I had everything found out within a minute and could catch them in the first hunt so I am no longer having that issue, but it did make it quite difficult to recover. Also at the time of writing I failed to catch that the game literally tells you what the ghost is after the first time it catches you so you could just take that information and run to at least get the 100 cash on mission completion. So I guess that's just a little hint for the idiots like me who overspend and need some cash to recover their losses.