Betrayal at House on the Hill third edition teased by Avalon Hill

Wizards of the Coast’s Avalon Hill imprint has released a trailer announcing the upcoming release of the third edition of House on the Hill: Betrayal.

Released earlier this week on Avalon Hill’s Twitter and Hasbro Pulse’s YouTube channel, the trailer for the third edition of the beloved cooperative board game offers little in the way of concrete information regarding a release date or improvements and additions to past editions of the game. The second edition of the game corrected several errors found in the original edition, most notably relocating an “underground lake” from the house’s attic to its basement, and added new items and eight new haunts while removing eight old ones.

Original development by Mike Selinker, based upon a Bruce Glassco game and published in 2004 BetrayalIt is an exploration game that involves cooperative play in the haunted house. Players take turns drawing from a pile of random tiles, traversing the house’s various floors in search of items and upgrading their stats.

The defining trait of the game is its namesake twist, wherein at some point throughout an hourlong session of the game, a “haunt” is triggered and one of the players becomes a traitor. After the “haunt” is activated, the traitor must exit the game room to read the manual again to learn the details of the new role and return to the table to prevent other players from fleeing.

Avalon Hill also released an expansion and spin-offs to its original 2004 edition. House on the Hill: Betrayal including 2016’s Widow’s Walk, 2017’s Betrayal at Baldur’s Gate, and 2018’s Betrayal Legacy.