The room-tiles are placed in a shuffled pile, with the back up so that the rooms aren’t visible, from which the players draw rooms when discovering new areas. Unlike most other board games, Betrayal at House on the Hill doesn’t have a large board with set rooms, but instead the board is made up of individual rooms that are discovered by the players as they move through the mansion.

The game board is made up of many individual rooms.

The fight between the players can however be quite different between play sessions, depending on what different rooms and items that have been discovered, as there are a number of different scenarios that affect the goals of all players. Whilst exploring the house one player suddenly turns into a traitor, sometimes gaining control of monsters, and the game turns from exploring to a fight for survival between the traitor and the rest of the players. The scenario is that the players are a group of explorers, exploring an old haunted house. Betrayal at House on the Hill is a very narrative-based board game for 3-6 players of ages 12 and older.

Board game house on haunted hill