- Features multiple scenarios
- different lay-out with every game
- enough chills to freeze the heart of any horror fan
- 3-6 players
- Ages 12+
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| Model Number: | 266330000WOC |
| Number of Puzzle Pieces: | 1 |
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Product Description
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The creak of footsteps on the stairs, the smell of something foul and dead, the feel of something crawling down your back – this and more can be found in the exciting refresh of the Avalon Hill favorite Betrayal at House on the Hill. This fun and suspenseful game is a new experience almost every time you play – you and your friends explore “that creepy old place on the hill” until enough mystic misadventures happen that one of the players turns on all of the others! Hours of fun for all your friends and family.
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New spooky nights await you and your friends! The creak of footsteps on the stairs, the smell of something foul and dead, the feel of something crawling down your back - this and more can be found in the exciting refresh of the Avalon Hill favorite Betrayal at House on the Hill. This fun and suspenseful game is a new experience almost every time you play - you and your friends explore "that creepy old place on the hill" until enough mystic misadventures happen that one of the players turns on all of the others! Hours of fun for all your friends and family. Designed for 3-6 players aged 12 and up, this boardgame features multiple scenarios, a different lay-out with every game, and enough chills to freeze the heart of any horror fan. This new release features: * The Haunt books have been refreshed with 8 new haunts - some of which feature a new "hidden traitor" game mechanic. * The Item cards have been updated with 5 new items! * The die-cut game play tokens have been redesigned making them easier to identify. * Exciting and compelling new art and design on the box.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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What is this game about?
You play an eclectic group of explorers who venture inside a spooky house. As you enter the creepy home, the lights go out and the front door locks. You then explore the unknown finding horror, humour and helpful items. Until...the betrayal occurs!!!
Straight off view of the game:
What a fantastic game!
Why would you enjoy this game?
If you like horror, comedy, monsters, exploration, surprise, randomness, co-operation, mystery, betrayal, and a simple core mechanic.
Summary of the first play of the game:
What other game can you play and have to run through a house pursued by tentacle suckers while you search for the creatures basement based head; discover you're the heir of an ancient throne and be hunted by poison blade wielding assassins who leap out from behind curtains; have a alien spaceship crash into the house and the little green man abduct the group through mind control; and finally summon a ghost and lay it rest?!
Play time:
All of our games, which were our very first, took less than 1 hour to play, while most only took about 30 minutes.
Value for money:
Lots and lots of tokens! If you love tokens, you'll love this game. If you hate organising the tiny little things then prepare to lose 1 die of sanity points...
The playing pieces for this game are...not great. They look a little...wrong. Now if you're feeling generous you could say this contributes to the feel of the game, but I just see poor figures.
I would say for £40 this game is good value - if the feel of a game is more important to than the quality of the components.
Problems with the game:
The aforementioned playing pieces obviously. The talk of warped cardboard is entirely accurate. It is really only an issue with the one long room tile, but it is still evident to the trained eye on the single tiles also. Some of the black clips used to track your adventurers' attributes are very poorly made, some being useless at staying clipped on which can cause confusion.
In terms of game mechanics the only real problem is in the balance of some of the Haunts. If you don't mind a game that is sometimes "unfair" and stacked against you, then this isn't a problem. But if you want a tactical balance, then this will be a problem. Personally our group likes the feel - horror is all about escaping by the skin of your teeth and being the prey not the predator, so this games feel for us was perfect.
Final thoughts:
If you love the idea of 50 games within 1 game - this is for you. I know my group are already pestering me to return to the House on the Hill. We've been ripped apart by tentacles, poisoned by assassins, brainwashed by aliens and driven insane by ghosts - and that is only 4 out of the 50 possible games!
(Disclaimer: after buying the 2nd edition for my birthday, I grabbed a couple of my friends and we played Betrayal at House on the Hill. None of us had played the game before or heard of it before a week ago. So this review has no 1st edition nostalgia)
You play an eclectic group of explorers who venture inside a spooky house. As you enter the creepy home, the lights go out and the front door locks. You then explore the unknown finding horror, humour and helpful items. Until...the betrayal occurs!!!
Straight off view of the game:
What a fantastic game!
Why would you enjoy this game?
If you like horror, comedy, monsters, exploration, surprise, randomness, co-operation, mystery, betrayal, and a simple core mechanic.
Summary of the first play of the game:
What other game can you play and have to run through a house pursued by tentacle suckers while you search for the creatures basement based head; discover you're the heir of an ancient throne and be hunted by poison blade wielding assassins who leap out from behind curtains; have a alien spaceship crash into the house and the little green man abduct the group through mind control; and finally summon a ghost and lay it rest?!
Play time:
All of our games, which were our very first, took less than 1 hour to play, while most only took about 30 minutes.
Value for money:
Lots and lots of tokens! If you love tokens, you'll love this game. If you hate organising the tiny little things then prepare to lose 1 die of sanity points...
The playing pieces for this game are...not great. They look a little...wrong. Now if you're feeling generous you could say this contributes to the feel of the game, but I just see poor figures.
I would say for £40 this game is good value - if the feel of a game is more important to than the quality of the components.
Problems with the game:
The aforementioned playing pieces obviously. The talk of warped cardboard is entirely accurate. It is really only an issue with the one long room tile, but it is still evident to the trained eye on the single tiles also. Some of the black clips used to track your adventurers' attributes are very poorly made, some being useless at staying clipped on which can cause confusion.
In terms of game mechanics the only real problem is in the balance of some of the Haunts. If you don't mind a game that is sometimes "unfair" and stacked against you, then this isn't a problem. But if you want a tactical balance, then this will be a problem. Personally our group likes the feel - horror is all about escaping by the skin of your teeth and being the prey not the predator, so this games feel for us was perfect.
Final thoughts:
If you love the idea of 50 games within 1 game - this is for you. I know my group are already pestering me to return to the House on the Hill. We've been ripped apart by tentacles, poisoned by assassins, brainwashed by aliens and driven insane by ghosts - and that is only 4 out of the 50 possible games!
(Disclaimer: after buying the 2nd edition for my birthday, I grabbed a couple of my friends and we played Betrayal at House on the Hill. None of us had played the game before or heard of it before a week ago. So this review has no 1st edition nostalgia)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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this is lots & lots of fun, BUT... there is a problem with the print run on the game, all the room tiles & tokens
warp a lot and it is almost unplayable. this is common knowledge on board game geek. one simple email to avalon hill (the makers) and they send you out free replacement board quickly, that doesnt warp :)
warp a lot and it is almost unplayable. this is common knowledge on board game geek. one simple email to avalon hill (the makers) and they send you out free replacement board quickly, that doesnt warp :)
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This is my favourite ever board game. Its amazingly simple to play, no complicated rules to learn. You can learn it as you play. It also has really good re-play value, there are 50 different combinations of 'haunts' that can happen, and because each time different tiles will come out in a different order and different things will happen, each game is different. we played it four times over 2 days and none of the games turned out the same. The atmosphere of the game is really good fun as well, you each play an 'architypal' character from a horror movie (a jock, a priest, a little girl, a fortune teller...) and explore a haunted house. I've played it with children and adults and both have really loved it.
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