Deck of Haunts, the spooky roguelike deckbuilder from Mantis Games and DANGEN Entertainment, is officially creeping onto PC via Steam on May 7 for $19.99 (around £16). PlayStation 5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch versions will arrive in 2025.
Deck of Haunts announcement trailer
You don’t play a character in Deck of Haunts, you are the haunted house. Set in 1970s America, your form is a cursed art deco mansion abandoned since the 1920s. Time has turned you bitter, and that hatred has grown into a living, beating Heart at your centre. With it, you lure people in, scare them senseless, and feed on their fear or their flesh.
Deck of Haunts is a mix of deckbuilding and strategy. During the day, you shape your mansion: build rooms, place traps, and guard your Heart room. Once night falls, you whip out your haunting cards, screams, ghosts, creaking floors, all that good stuff, and go to work on the intruders. Play your cards right (literally), and you can push them to the edge of madness or kill them outright. Their essence becomes fuel to expand your mansion and attract even bolder prey—until the dreaded Stone Masons show up.
Here’s what you’ll be doing:
- Craft your haunt deck – Unlock new cards to terrify humans in increasingly clever ways. Mix and match screams, shadows, and shifting architecture to pull off nasty combos.
- Design your mansion – Place rooms with different effects, set traps, and create a maze that slows, scares, and eventually breaks your visitors.
- Push them to madness – Use your cards to ratchet up fear levels. Once their minds crack, harvest their essence to grow stronger.
- Prepare for greater threats – As your reputation spreads, the humans will send in tougher opponents—priests, cops, and eventually the Stone Masons.
Deck of Haunts leans hard into its creepy concept, and the deckbuilding twist gives it plenty of tactical depth. If you’re into horror with a strategic edge, keep this one on your radar.
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