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Play as a haunted house: build rooms by day, then use cards, traps, and spirits at night to frighten or kill intruders.
Released 07 May 2025
Play as the House
Build a Haunted Maze
Drive Intruders Insane
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
Developed by Mantis · Published by DANGEN Entertainment, Game Source Entertainment
You are the haunted house, defending its Heart room from human intruders. Build and arrange rooms to shape the paths visitors take and to protect the center of your domain.
Each night, use cards to affect visitors and rooms. You can damage their health, drain their sanity, build tension to strengthen fear effects, set traps, and summon creatures. Visitors have different traits that influence how they move through or respond to the house.
Between nights, spend the essence gained from visitors to expand your mansion and develop your haunting. Progress unlocks cards, rooms, and other options for shaping your deck and approach.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often enjoy the unusual role of being a haunted house, the horror atmosphere, and combining cards with room effects to torment intruders. Some also appreciate the turn-based pace and experimenting with different decks and room setups. Opinions differ on how much variety and replay value the game offers; repetition, constrained layouts, balance, and interface clarity are recurring complaints.
Step into the role of a sinister Haunted House, where the walls whisper secrets and terror lurks around every corner. As the master of this cursed domain, your goal is to ensnare daring humans, play on their fears, and drain their very essence to expand your dark influence.
By day, meticulously design the labyrinthine layout of your mansion, transforming it into a death trap that no human can escape. As night falls, lure unwitting explorers into your home, where you'll use a deck of terrifying cards to summon spirits, shift hallways, and unleash spine-chilling horrors. Build tension and drive your guests toward madness, all while protecting your Heart room—the core of your malevolent power.
Once their sanity crumbles, harvest their essence to strengthen your mansion, increasing your infamy and attracting even more daring foes, from law enforcement to priests. But beware, the Stone Masons are coming, ready to challenge your reign of terror…
Unlock and collect new cards as you progress. Expand your deck to include tools of terror like bone-chilling screams, phantoms, creaking floors, and shifting walls. Use your cards to scare – or kill – your victims, then extract their essence.
Strategically design your haunted house by placing rooms that serve to protect your Heart room, where your power is concentrated. Construct a maze filled with traps, scares, and unique twists, all tailored to frighten and confuse your visitors. Utilize special rooms with unique powers to aid in your hauntings.
As humans navigate your mansion, increase the tension by playing haunt cards directly on them and within different rooms. Slowly drive them to insanity. Once their fear reaches critical levels, use the right haunts to push them to the brink of madness. Will you let them escape?
Once you've driven the explorers mad with fear, extract their essence to grow your mansion. Use it to unlock new rooms, expand your haunting powers, and attract more dangerous—and rewarding—targets. Grow your haunted domain into a nightmare that consumes all who enter.
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 41 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
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