Avalon Hill Betrayal at House on the Hill, Green

Fantastic introductory horror based board game

I purchased this while overseas with the guys, and guys and gals enjoyed the game. They picked it up very quickly. And there was a lot of replayability.

Great game . . . a lot of fun for the whole family. My 13 year old requested the game, but everyone in the famil has enjoyed it from 13 to 80 years old!

Really fun game! It gets easier as you play, and then the whole game changes and switches on you. Great for game night with a small group of friends.

Game was in perfect condition and arrived on time. Love the game play and versatility of it! A very enjoyable cooperative board game. Fairly easy to play as well... and plenty of variety with each game.

My family and I have spent hours playing this game. It is different every time. I havent gotten my friends into it yet but I know they will love it as much as I do!

I have owned this game for a year and it continues to be my favorite. Who wouldnt want to become a monster and chase your friends through a haunted mansion?! This game is divided into two phases. In the first half of the game, you explore the mansion together, dividing up to explore the three floors of the mansion as you see fit. The house is treacherous and many nasty events will occur, but occasionally you will gain a helpful item or stumble upon a boon for your character. In the second half of the game, once the requirements are met, the Haunt begins. One person will become the traitor (as revealed according to the manuals for that specific Haunt), and the rest are now working to defeat him or her. There are 50 haunts that occur, so no 2 games will ever be the same. With the layout of the house constantly changing and the randomness of items and (mostly terrible) events that occur, even having the same haunt again makes the game completely different each play. A fair note - this game involves LOTS of reading. It is a favorite in my regular game group, where we dont mind a heavier game with lots of stat tracking and reading, but when we try to get casual gamers involved, they sometimes get bored. Yes, you will be stopping to read a short few sentences aloud from a card at every turn. The Haunt in itself involves the traitor and the heros team dividing up to study a page of instructions. As much as I love this game, I dont think that its a fun for all game. Also, the scary themes can be a bit mature for the younger audience. Other than that, I will continue to play this regularly, and look forward to the expansion this fall!

This game is a lot of fun. It is incredibly replayable since the same thing will never happen. The first time you play it can take hours as you learn how to do play of the many scenarios. After that or with experience players, you can still have fun for hours. It can get really stressful and competitive towards the end and people show true colors similar to Risk. I would get this and play with someone you are considering as a marriage partner. Along with canoeing or camping in the rain, you can really see how people handle stress and how forward thinking they can be. Great game that clearly took a lot of intelligence, creativity, and play-testing to make right.

We really like this game. “We” being my wife and I, our 17 y/old son and 12 y/old daughter, which is probably about the youngest age I’d consider for playing a game like this. While it starts out as a team game, as the game progresses one of the players will become the Traitor and begin working against the rest of the players (“Survivors”). The “Traitor” will take the Traitor’s Handbook and leave the room to read their portion of the “Haunt” scenario (one of 50), what they need to do to win, etc., and that’s why the youngest player needs to be mature and have solid reasoning and reading comprehension skills, just in case they become the Traitor. The Survivors remain at the table to read their part of the scenario from the Survivor’s Handbook, formulate a strategy, etc., then the “Traitor” returns to the table and the rest of the game is played out. Because there are 50 scenarios, and because the board is comprised of numerous ‘room’ tiles that are revealed at random and placed one at a time, replayability is high, however, you will eventually find yourself repeating Haunt scenarios. In fact with less than 5 games played we found ourselves replaying our very first Haunt scenario, albeit with a different player as the Traitor, but at that point the Survivors and the Traitor all knew what the other “team” needed to do to win. A game can easily take an hour, from setup to completion, being another reason younger players should be mature and patient, as it’s possible their character may get killed early in the haunt, leaving them with little impact on the game other than discussing strategies as the game unfolds. That said, we have all been enjoying this game, and if you’ve got mature, intelligent kids to play it with, you’ll probably like it too. Now for the negatives. The box was not in the best condition when we received it. The sides were slightly bowed in as if another, much heavier box had been sitting on top of it for some time. The pieces inside were all intact but over the past few weeks I’ve noticed the bowing has become more and more pronounced. The same thing has happened with the tiles, in that they no longer lay flat but have twisted and warped. In the worst case one of the longer tiles has warped & twisted lengthwise and it now rocks from side-to-side instead of laying flat. Whoever did quality control on the character tiles (if anyone did) needs to be fired as they’ve all been printed off center. Around the outside of the character tiles are their traits (Sanity, Intelligence, Speed, Might, etc.) and plastic clips are slid onto the four sides to help track their traits. Because of the offset printing, some of the plastic clips sit right on top of the traits while on the other side there can be a gap of almost ½” between the clip and the trait. On the clips, they are incredibly loosely fitting, so the slightest bump can move them. While your character’s traits will increase and decrease as the game goes on, they shouldn’t be affected by a tiny bump of your gaming table. Other players have mentioned sticking tape along the sides of the tiles, or using paper clips instead of the metal clips. While this does fix the issue, we should NOT have to do this to a brand new board game to make it playable. While we’ve really been enjoying this game, the production quality is sub-par and I find it hard to believe there was any form of quality control. Given that many other buyers have experienced the same quality issues, I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re being sold ‘factory seconds’ which didn’t pass the quality control check.

Probably one of my favorite games. The campaign allows for dozens of different endgames. Id highly recommend this for anyone with a couple hours and a couple of friends.