

The game received an expansion in 2016, a Dungeons & Dragons-themed edition in 2017, and a legacy-style campaign version designed by Rob Daviau in 2018.Īccording to Chris Nadeau, senior director and product development lead at Avalon Hill, this new edition features 50 brand-new haunts, including sequels to old favorites.


That’s when the cooperative game turns adversarial with one player, dubbed the Traitor, working to kill the others off before time runs out. Players gather items and continue their exploration until the final phase, called the Haunt, gets triggered. Mystery lurks in every corner, represented by Omen cards that slowly ratchet up the tension of the game. In it, players explore the multiple floors of a haunted mansion, building the floorplan with randomly selected tiles as they go. Polygon has the first details on the game - including two new trailers.īetrayal was first released in 2004, and later revised with a second edition in 2010. While the second edition smoothed out many of those issues, the newly formed team at Hasbro’s Avalon Hill is doubling down on the franchise’s popularity with an all-new edition.īetrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition will be released later this year, just in time for the annual Gen Con tabletop gaming convention here in the United States. But the original is not without its flaws, including droopy miniatures, delicate cardboard components, and a subset of rules that don’t quite work. Betrayal at House on the Hill, the campy horror board game set inside a haunted mansion, has long been a go-to title for introducing new players to modern board games.
