DANGEN Entertainment has announced its partnership with Mantis Games to publish Deck of Haunts, an upcoming deckbuilding roguelite with a chilling twist. In this game, set for release in early 2025 on PC and later on consoles, you assume the role of a haunted 1920s mansion in 1970s America, using fear and supernatural powers to trap, terrify, and eliminate human explorers.
As a malevolent, sentient mansion, your objective is to lure unsuspecting visitors inside and use a deck of haunting cards—featuring bone-chilling horrors like spirits and shifting walls—to drive them mad or kill them. By day, you build and fortify your mansion with traps and specialized rooms to protect your Heart room, the core of your power. By night, you unleash your terrifying arsenal to harvest the essence of your victims, which strengthens your mansion and prepares you for greater challenges, including the formidable Stone Masons.
Featuring a strategic blend of deckbuilding and mansion design, Deck of Haunts promises a sinister gameplay experience where the players control the horror rather than survive it. The game will support multiple languages and is developed by Mantis Games, a Belgian indie studio known for crafting immersive, visually captivating experiences. Below is an overview via Steam, screens, and official trailer.
About the Game
Step into the role of a sinister Haunted House, where the walls whisper secrets and terror lurks around every corner. As the master of this cursed domain, your goal is to ensnare daring humans, play on their fears, and drain their very essence to expand your dark influence.
By day, meticulously design the labyrinthine layout of your mansion, transforming it into a death trap that no human can escape. As night falls, lure unwitting explorers into your home, where you’ll use a deck of terrifying cards to summon spirits, shift hallways, and unleash spine-chilling horrors. Build tension and drive your guests toward madness, all while protecting your Heart room—the core of your malevolent power.
Once their sanity crumbles, harvest their essence to strengthen your mansion, increasing your infamy and attracting even more daring foes, from law enforcement to priests. But beware, the Stone Masons are coming, ready to challenge your reign of terror…
Unlock and collect new cards as you progress. Expand your deck to include tools of terror like bone-chilling screams, phantoms, creaking floors, and shifting walls. Use your cards to scare – or kill – your victims, then extract their essence.
Strategically design your haunted house by placing rooms that serve to protect your Heart room, where your power is concentrated. Construct a maze filled with traps, scares, and unique twists, all tailored to frighten and confuse your visitors. Utilize special rooms with unique powers to aid in your hauntings.
As humans navigate your mansion, increase the tension by playing haunt cards directly on them and within different rooms. Slowly drive them to insanity. Once their fear reaches critical levels, use the right haunts to push them to the brink of madness. Will you let them escape?
Once you’ve driven the explorers mad with fear, extract their essence to grow your mansion. Use it to unlock new rooms, expand your haunting powers, and attract more dangerous—and rewarding—targets. Grow your haunted domain into a nightmare that consumes all who enter.
