Monster Mansion

Monster Mansion is a cosy tycoon game set in a haunted house that is more fun than fright. Trick-or-treaters in witch hats, cat ears and bedsheet costumes pay a few sweets at the front door and wander from room to room, and your job is to give them a night to remember. Build a Cobweb Hall, a Pumpkin Patch, a Portrait Gallery whose paintings follow you with their eyes, a bubbling Cauldron Kitchen, a Bat Belfry and a Skeleton Ballroom, then hire the monster that loves each room. The black cat goes “mrrow!”, the ghost floats over with a “BOOO!”, the witch cackles over her cauldron and the skeleton rattles out a dance, and every boo turns into giggles.

Giggles are the score and candy is what you build with. Guests tip in candy on their way out, the Candy Stall sells treats, and every monster takes a few sweets in wages at dawn. Hang cobwebs, candles and lanterns to make a room spookier, upgrade the busy rooms so more guests fit inside, and land a boo on a full room for a giggle burst. Happy guests raise the mansion's star rating, and a better rating brings a bigger crowd the next night.

Each night is a quick round of a minute or two with a giggle goal, and the campaign runs for twenty nights as new floors, rooms and monsters open up. Beat a goal for up to three stars, chase a high score on every night, or switch to Sandbox for an endless mansion with candy to spare. It is a game to relax with that still gives your brain plenty to juggle, it plays with a mouse, a keyboard or a touch screen, and your mansion saves itself in your browser, ready for the next Halloween night.