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Deck of Haunts
Deck of Haunts invites you to become a malevolent Haunted House. Lure humans into your cursed halls, manipulate their fears, and drain their essence to grow your power. Use strategy to build your mansion and expand your dark influence, turning your home into a terrifying, inescapable nightmare.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“The game was a bit undercooked at launch, so I held back on a review at the time. I revisited it recently and a lot of content has been added and the feedback of the players has been taken into account when making changes.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“I have never been a house before, but I think I like it. Deck of Haunts commits hard to its central metaphor, and that is what makes it work. Nearly everything serves the fantasy, which makes the whole game feel cohesive, thoughtful, and fun. It is easy to learn, difficult to…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“Very cool premise to begin with but as others stated, the gameplay loop is very repetitive. You will find the optimum way to build the house like a funnel, and it is mandatory to build this way. So what could be a really creative game of building a haunted house, just becomes…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:32 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Room size impacting humans and more. We need you as tester!
After a lot of player feedback, design discussions, and internal testing, we believe we’ve finally landed on a system that gives larger rooms a meaningful purpose without forcing us to rebalance the e
V1.40: Seven new missions and rewards!
Apart from the changes you can find below, we are working on something big... After a lot of player feedback, design discussions, and internal testing, we believe we’ve finally landed on a system that
V1.39: New missions and rewards, such as story and content!
Ever wanted to know more about some creatures or extend your card back cosmetic library? Now is your chance! If you can complete all ten new missions... Or, if you want a new room like the "Tinker" ro
V1.38: Big QoL Update
While we've been working to improve the general feeling of the game, we also made time to create new missions... that will be released in the coming week(s)! Changes Added more parameters to the Human
V1.37: Bugfixes before the weekend.
Apart from this small batch of fixed bugs, we're also working on some new missions for a future update 👀 Fixed Bugs Fix bug where missions would get skipped Added failsafe for missions that were skipp
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Rogue-lite · Deckbuilding · Base-Building · Card Battler · Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · City Builder · Simulation · Card Game · Building · Horror · God Game (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Workshop · Adjustable Text Size · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty |
| Languages | English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Korean |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 41 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://mantis.games/cases/entertainment/deck-of-haunts |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: 2.3 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: 3GB VRAM Storage: 2 GB available space