Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition includes 50 new haunts, better minis, and more

polygon.com:

Betrayal at House on the Hill, the campy horror board game set inside a haunted mansion, has long been a go-to title for introducing new players to modern board games. But the original is not without its flaws, including droopy miniatures, delicate cardboard components, and a subset of rules that don’t quite work. While the second edition smoothed out many of those issues, the newly formed team at Hasbro’s Avalon Hill is doubling down on the franchise’s popularity with an all-new edition.

Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Editionwill be released later this year, just in time for the annual Gen Con tabletop gaming convention here in the United States. Polygon has the first details on the game — including two new trailers.

Betrayal was first released in 2004, and later revised with a second edition in 2010. In it, players explore the multiple floors of a haunted mansion, building the floorplan with randomly selected tiles as they go. Mystery lurks in every corner, represented by Omen cards that slowly ratchet up the tension of the game. Players gather items and continue their exploration until the final phase, called the Haunt, gets triggered. That’s when the cooperative game turns adversarial with one player, dubbed the Traitor, working to kill the others off 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 Daviau in 2018.

According to Chris Nadeau, senior director and product development lead at Avalon Hill, this new edition features 50 brand-new haunts, including sequels to old favorites. They’ve all been designed to run more smoothly at the table, and collated into five different thematic buckets. That will