Betrayal at House on the Hill third edition revealed with 50 new haunts
Betrayal at the house on the hill, a camping horror board game set in a haunted mansion, has long been a go-to game for introducing new players to modern board games. But the original isn’t without flaws, including drooping miniatures, thin cardboard pieces, and a subset of rules that don’t quite work. While the second edition ironed out many of those issues, the newly formed Hasbro’s Avalon Hill team doubled the franchise’s popularity with an all-new edition. Betrayal at the House on the Hill 3rd Edition will be released later this year, just in time for the annual Gen Con board game convention in the US. Polygon has the first details about the game, including two new trailers.
Betrayal was first released in 2004 and then revised with a second edition in 2010. In it, players explore multiple floors of a haunted mansion, constructing a floor plan from randomly selected tiles as they go. Mystery lurks in every corner represented by the Omen cards that slowly build up the tension in the game. Players collect items and continue their exploration until the final phase, called the Ghost, starts. That’s when co-op becomes competitive, with one player, dubbed the Traitor, working to kill the others before time runs out. The game received an expansion in 2016, a Dungeons & Dragons-themed edition in 2017, and a legacy-style campaign version designed by Rob Davio in 2018.
According to Chris Nadeau, Senior Director and Head of Product Development at Avalon Hill, this new edition features 50 brand new locations, including sequels to old favorites. All of them have been designed to work more smoothly at the table and are grouped into five different themed segments. This will help streamline the experience and give it a more thematic tone.