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

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1. Vanessa G. Verified Buyer – 24 April 2024

   Me gusta este juego. Compré esta expansión porque tenía el juego base en su versión en inglés. Además, el diseño más gusta más que el de la última edición.
   

2. Brian Verified Buyer – 12 October 2024

   Pros + More haunts (50) + Explorer Tokens + New Rooms + Rules to play new haunt if you would have started a core game instead Cons – New floor – Dumbwaiters – No fixes for the core game – Some of the haunts – Missing tokens (as in they never printed them) – Online FAQ to fix multiple issues I enjoy Betrayal, but you have to play it with the correct people. Many people can’t read directions and follow them, and if you have one of those people in the group, they always seem to be the betrayer in the game. More to the expansion, I thought it was cool they were adding the Widow’s Walk to the game, unfortunately the rules state that you can place the Upper Floor tiles on the Widow’s Walk level, and that just gives you some really messed up house plans. To the point it draws me out of the theme. Same goes with the dumbwaiters, while a good idea, very poor in execution. They don’t go from room to room with a dumbwaiter, they go from the room you are in to the landing directly above or below you. Not really how they work. The expansions just adds to the game, they don’t fix any issues in the base game, and because all the haunts were all written by fans of the game who didn’t fully grasp the rules, some haunts cause other problems. Some have you attack a card with no rules on how, some have you place tokens that were never printed, some just totally draw you out of the theme (like the haunt that is clearly about Trump), some just leave out information that is kind of prudent to the haunt. While others are just very well done and somewhat make up for the bad ones. There is an online FAQ that does attempt to fix many of the issues, and gives you the files to print your own tokens for the missing ones. The best thing about this expansion? The Explorer Tokens! These are used when you stop in a room that tells you to increase one of your stats if you stop in the room. You put one of these down to you know you already did it. Very handy.

   

3. Duncan Verified Buyer – 7 February 2025

   I love the addition of the roof and new rooms, omens, and items. The small characters tokens to add to rooms that have already added to a character’s stats are helpful. The dumbwaiters are a great addition. It would have been cool to have some new characters as well but I can understand how that might mess up the dynamics. We found one of the haunts unplayable (Haunt 84 wtf?) but the others so far have been a blast. It’s a very fun game. Highly recommended for enthusiasts.
   

4. KW06 Verified Buyer – 12 February 2025

   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.

   

5. E. Antonio Verified Buyer – 13 February 2025

   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!
   

6. Anonymous Verified Buyer – 8 March 2025

   Double the fun with an additional half of the original price. Some haunts are good, some are a bit complicated, but you are able to choose if you wish not to play any haunt. Box seems too big for its contents, wasting logistical resources and materials.
   

7. Connie Weeks Verified Buyer – 29 March 2025

   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.
   

8. hewegia Verified Buyer – 24 April 2025

   I got this together with the main game. This expansion allows more replay ability to the game and I love it.