Overview
About this game
Hauntworks is a dark comedy management sim about running a supernatural haunted house in limbo. Your task is to satisfy five otherworldly patrons by harvesting screams, vomit, and laughter from the living. Build your escape, or build a life here.
DESIGN THE HOUSE
Orchestrate your operations room by room:
Strategically place traps
Assign the right undertaker for each job
Scare guests yourself with a variety of spells
HARVEST EMOTIONS
Screams, vomit, laughter, and mind shards are raw materials. Compress them, combine them, refine them into increasingly absurd resources. The production chain is disgusting, ridiculous, and the entire point.
MANAGE MONSTERS
Each undertaker has their own personality, abilities, and needs. They're not the easiest to manage, but they get the job done. Embrace the chaos: hold a collapsing operation together while a dog eats someone's vomit in the hallway and a VIP just broke something expensive. Sometimes a guest ends up dead.
FEED THE PATRONS
Five supernatural entities keep you in limbo. Each wants something specific. Help them, and they'll help you plan your escape. Or maybe you'll end up liking them enough to stay.
SURVIVE THE BUREAU
Guests die, and that draws warranted, but unwanted, attention. The Bureau of Liminality sends inspectors to walk your halls, count your bodies, and above all, evaluate your efficiency. Maybe they discover the skeleton hidden in a closet, or maybe they discover the corpse just lying out in the hallway. How you handle them determines how much time you have left.
