Avalon Hill Betrayal at House on the Hill Widow's Walk Strategy Board Game

As always, I only have priases for this game. Though some of the haunts fell flat for our group, I understand some of the decisions that were made when they wrote this. Also, biggest complaint from our regular players: " In what MADNESS did you guys get anita sarkeesian as one of the authors?!" It was a terrible haunt as well, the huant literally tells you that the traiter can only win when the heros win, guess what our traiter did, he told all the heros how to beat him so we all win. I';m sorry, but that was such a dumb haunt. And there were no rules for the traitor not to say that? We are huge HUGE fans of BAHOH, but even we were judging the team that did R&D and play tests on a lot of these haunts. What were you guys thinking? We even thought of different scenerios where the game play is balanced, and there is no way in hell that in any situation that some of them will be. It's still a really enjoyable game mind you, and I'm still giving it a 5-star, because this idea for a boardgame is truly amazing. Unfortunately, it's ruined by terrible guest authors (*cough* anita sarkeesian*cough*) and poorly playtested haunts. Come on you guys, the editor is the R&D for D&D right? You guys can do so much better than this.

I love the new expansion. More rooms, fantastic new haunts, interesting omens. The new mechanic of dumb-waiters is also really useful for anyone on a 5-6 room path away from the landings. The character tokens are also useful for remembering which room buffs we've already received. Though, they are very easily lost being so small. One of my favorite new cards is the "What year is it?" event card that causes either side to read the flavor text, thus giving the other side some advantage during the haunt. Of the new omens, box is the most amusing, cat is one of the most powerful. The only downside is I may have to invest in a bigger table in order to play with a full group. The original game just barely fit on the table with all rooms played.

Awesome Expansion. The replayability in this game comes from the number of haunts- with this expansion now up to 100 possible scenarios that change the game, never play the same game twice. The betrayer and survivors do not know each others objectives. 20 new room tiles, and a new floor - the roof - also a handful of new item, omen and event cards. A few new game mechanics but easy enough to learn. Some rooms now have a dumbwaiter - spend 2 movement to get to a landing on a floor just above or below your current floor. For those rooms with once-per-game abilities, there are now a number or tokens for each character to leave behind and keep track of which ones are complete, no more just having to remember if you used that rooms ability or not. I found some of the new rooms pretty clever- for example the Laundry: "If you end your turn here, you may discard an item card and draw an item card from the discard pile." Or the Arsenal: "Draw 2 item cards, choose 1 and discard the other." Excellent price point at only 20$ currently - (in a world where the Mansions of Madness expansions are 70$!!) In short, this expansion adds plenty to the game without unnecessary complexity. 50 new haunts, new rooms to explore, new options while fleeing in terror from the traitor and the horrors of the house on the hill - can't go wrong.

Buy the original game and then buy this expansion pack. Don’t think about it, just do it. This is our most favorite of all board games. It’s always different because you build the board as you go, with the expansion you have 100 different haunts, and even if you get the same haunt doesn’t mean the game will play out the same. This game saved our lives during quarantine and we still play it all the time. Buy it. Trust me.

Me and my friends love Betrayal at house on the Hill. The variety of scenarios, modular board, and events is so fun and has so much replay value. We've played the game nearly to death over the last 5 years. If i had a problem with the game it would have been the lack of items and events as after awhile you have seen and heard them all as the deck for them is honestly a tad small for a board game of this nature. This expansion is exactly what was needed as it adds more events, items, modular board pieces, another level to the house, and scenarios. It breathed new life into the game for us and make it so exciting to play again expanding on the variety of the cards and tiles. Would recommend to any fans of the original game.

So having owned the original game for 7 years and played almost all the scenarios when I heard that this was coming out and that it would have new scenario's I was like I have to own this. So I pre-ordered it. When it arrived just a week before Halloween I was pumped to try it out. We set up the game and played and sure enough we ended up using one of the new scenario's. The game gives you options for making sure you get one of the new scenario's but we just lucked out that it did. I really enjoy having the roof as a added floor as well as the new items, rooms, and so on. I just wish they had added new characters because I'm getting a little tired of the old ones. I liked how they had fans write their own scenarios and some of those scenarios made it in to this expansion. This gives me hope that I could one day get a something I came up added to a favorite game of mine. The price for what you get is reasonable too they aren't gouging you into purchasing a expansion that is the same price as the original game. Overall if you love Betrayal you will love this expansion. We just added all the new stuff in with the original game and it all fit in the original games box.

Not going to lie, if you have the Betrayal at House on The Hill core set, why are you reading this just get it already! Those that never played the game before..... Do you like playing Clue? Do you like B rated horror films? Love strategy games that provide random game stories? The do I have a game for you!!! Yes, it does have several little pieces but nothing a sandwich bad cannot handle. After you grasp how to play, you will not want to stop. I always try to get company to play when we have time. If I had to say anything about it that I would wish were different, its that the "attic" cards had more attic only ones and the new mechanic to travel to any floor . It personally made exploring slightly more challenging and easy all at the same time. Overall I will still be getting any and all expansions they release!

I absolutely LOVE betrayal at house on the hill (BAHOTH is what my family calls it). This extension to that game just makes it so much better! One thing that was really annoying with the base game was when you get to the basement, it was so hard to get out sometimes. With this extension, it gives you a couple more ways out, like dumbwaiters, plus a bunch of tiles that let you increase stats, exchange item cards, and much more. I love the additions they made to this game, and it works very smoothly with the base game with no issues with rules contradicting each other like many extensions do. If you like the base game, you will definitely enjoy this extension.