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Based on the award-winning Betrayal at House on the Hill board game, Betrayal at Mystery Mansion is the mash-up fans have been clamoring for!
Play as Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, or Fred as you explore the mansion and its grounds, finding clues, encountering strange occurrences, and maybe even catching sight of a monster! When you find enough clues to learn what's really going on, that's when the haunt starts, and one player will switch sides to play the role of the monster! Will you be able to stop them before they carry out their sinister plan?
Betrayal at Mystery Mansion contains 25 new haunts based on popular episodes and movies from the Scooby-Doo oeuvre, with different monsters, items, events, and locations each time you play.
—description from the publisher
- Theming shines for Scooby-Doo fans
- Approachable for families and new gamers
- Strong narrative integration with light deduction and exploration
- Not as deep as heavier betrayal games
- Thematic attention may outpace mechanical depth for veterans
- Cooperative exploration with traitor twist
- Scooby-Doo universe with betrayal mechanics
- Seasoned fan service with lore depth and character dynamics
- Betrayal at House on the Hill
- Clue: The Card Game
- Cloaked Cats
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- betrayal / hidden roles — One player becomes the traitor while the others work against or with the traitor depending on the scenario
- deck-draw events and clue collection — Event cards and clue cards drive exploration and narrative progression
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- number five tides of time two player game
- number four on my list and this was very tough for me because i was torn between these two
- number two we actually combine two games together, nirōshima hex and monolith arena
- number one stronghold, what else could there be right
- it's a game you can pull off the shelf and play without a heavy rulebook in hand
- the art is amazing and the components are gorgeous, it makes you want to play again just to look at them