House Arrest

About the Game

OVERVIEW
Haunted Heist is an asymmetrical multiplayer horror-comedy party game for a group of 3-6 that takes place over the course of a 10-minute round. It pits a co-op police squadron (player-controlled) against a spooky little thief (also player-controlled) who is haunting the halls of a procedurally generated mansion. The being is dead set on harassing and scaring the police while dismantling their efforts to retrieve gems from the rooms of the mansion, at times resorting to lethal force. If the police return the gems to their safe room in time, they win. If they are wiped out or the game times out, the thief wins.

THE POLICE

Police officers are armed with their standard issue gun, a flashlight, flares, defibrillators, and each other, communicating via proximity chat. They must preserve their battery, maintain their numbers and work together to survive the thief's antics while retrieving gems from across the mansion. Along the way, they will be aided by powerups which restore their ammo and temporarily improve their equipment. 

THE THIEF

The thief must lurk in the shadows and use the many tools at their disposal to their benefit. Toggle night vision, mute players, swap their voice, disguise yourself as them, turn invisible, modulate your voice to something more sinister, emerge from the darkness to stab someone and retreat. All these abilities operate on cooldowns, so use them wisely. The thief must use their psychological tactics just as deftly as their lethal ones to forge effective playstyles and maximize their fear factor as a genuinely unsettling threat.