Kat's Pick
Horrified

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a thematic game of exploration and suspense that keeps you eyeing your friends with suspicion. The game starts as a simple cooperative tile laying exploration game but beware the twist as one of you betrays the other.

Competitive Cooperation: The game starts with everyone picking a scenario and working together to explore a haunted house. However, as the game goes on, you will reveal omens that will threaten to reveal a traitor in your group. You won’t survive without the help of the other survivors, but during the first part of the game you have to balance helping the group with the knowledge that one of them will eventually betray you.

Fun Asymmetric Game: Betrayal at House on the Hill is ultimately a fun casual strategy that pits one to two people against the rest of the group. Though if you’re worried about being the traitor, the game balances out the challenge by giving you control of creepy and dangerous monsters and powers to give you an edge over the survivors. With each scenario having different goals and objectives, every game will feel different and unique.

A Worthy Upgrade: Even if you’ve played older editions of Betrayal at House on the Hill, third edition has made enough quality of life changes to warrant buying. With streamlined haunt rules that give the investigators a reason to stay in such a dangerous house, to giving the players more ability to pick the kinds of haunts they want to play. You can really feel the care that went into providing a unique experience for new and returning players.

Overall, Betrayal at House on the Hill is a fun game that invites you to work together until one of you inevitably betrays the others. With elements of adventure and casual strategy to keep every game unique, you’ll be playing it over and over again. Be careful or you just might become the House on the Hill’s next victim.