DANGEN Entertainment and Mantis Games have announced that Deck of Haunts, a sinister deckbuilding roguelike where players become a haunted house, will launch for consoles in early October. Perfect for Halloween! The console announcement trailer showcases the expanded version of the game launching for consoles, as new cards, rooms, missions, and more have been added since its PC release in May 2025.
By day, you build your mansion by placing rooms and twisting corridors, creating a deadly labyrinth. You also need to build your deck with cards to generate fear, inflict damage and manipulate foolish humans. When night begins, visitors enter, and the haunt begins. Use your deck to torment your guests, trigger traps, exploit their fears, and drive them toward insanity… or death. Take their essence to fuel your own power, but choose your victims wisely, as certain people (investigators, priests, etc.) might fight back. Protect the heart of your home at all costs, as your reign of terror will end if humans destroy it.
Here are the game’s key features, via DANGEN Entertainment:
- Craft Your Deck of Haunts – 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.
- Build Your Mansion – 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.
- Sow Tension and Fear – 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?
- Harvest Essence – 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.
“The Deck of Haunts launching on consoles is a very different game from the one we first released on PC last year,” says Philippe Mesotten of Mantis Games in a press release. “We’ve spent more than a year building the game based on player feedback, adding new ways to create your own haunted house, new creatures, new decks, new missions – even entire new game modes. We’re thrilled console players get to start with all of this from day one!”
Developed by Mantis Games and published by DANGEN Entertainment, Deck of Haunts will be released for PlayStation 5, Switch 2, Switch, Xbox Series, and Xbox One on October 8.
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