Betrayal at House on the Hill
3–6 players • Bruce Glassco • 2004
- Designer
- Bruce Glassco
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast · Avalon Hill · Hasbro
- First published
- 2004
- Players
- 3–6 players
- Genre
- Cooperative board game · Horror fiction
How it plays
Betrayal at House on the Hill plays 3–6 players.
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Betrayal at House on the Hill was published by Avalon Hill, a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, in 2004. Designed by Bruce Glassco, the game was conceptualized as a modular exploration experience that pays homage to classic horror film tropes. The objective was to create a game that felt like a cohesive narrative journey, where the board is built tile by tile as players explore a haunted mansion, eventually leading to a dramatic shift in gameplay known as the haunt.
The design utilizes a unique system involving two rulebooks: the Secrets of Survival and the Traitor's Tome. When a specific threshold is met during the exploration phase, one player is revealed as the antagonist and turns against the others using a scenario-specific set of rules. Upon its release, the game was praised for its high replayability and thematic immersion, becoming a staple of the tabletop horror genre despite some early reports of balancing challenges in the scripted haunt scenarios.
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Betrayal at House on the Hill is a board game for 3–6 players, filed under cooperative board game and horror fiction. collecto.rs catalogues the game, not its rules — for the full rulebook, use the copy in the box or the publisher's own site.
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Who designed Betrayal at House on the Hill?
Betrayal at House on the Hill was designed by Bruce Glassco. It's published by Wizards of the Coast, Avalon Hill and Hasbro. The catalog gives its publication year as 2004.
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