Betrayal at House on the Hill starts out like any classic haunted house story. In this 3-6 player board game, your ragtag group of adventures set foot in a mysterious house for the sake of exploration. As they delve deeper into the house, a series of troubling events occur until one big event changes the entire trajectory of the game. From that point forward, it’s a battle for survival, as the remaining adventures try to fend off the traitor and the supernatural beings they command.

For a game with a fairly rigid progression, it has a lot of smart mechanisms to keep things fresh, from a house that randomly generates each time you play, to 50 different scenarios that occur once the betrayer reveals their true colours. Are these enough to keep you coming back to a house where death for some is inevitable? Continue reading →