Atari’s Haunted House Creeps into Retail Stores Just in Time for Halloween
Spooky specters and anomalous apparitions coalesce into their physical form today as Atari announces the retail release of the roguelite revival Haunted House. A creative and utterly haunting all-ages reimagining of the 1982 classic, Haunted House creeps into Best Buy, GameStop, Target, Walmart, and online on Amazon today for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch for $19.99 USD. Pick up a copy now, if you dare.
A tribute to the classic Atari 2600 game, considered the first-ever survival horror title, Haunted House presents a 3D isometric adventure in a spooky mansion filled with colorful characters. In the game, players take control of Lyn Graves, the precocious niece of legendary treasure hunter Zachary Graves. Lyn visits her uncle’s mansion with her closest friends, only to find the massive house overrun with ghouls and monsters who quickly grab and spirit away her friends. To free her uncle and her friends, Lyn must find the shattered pieces of a magical urn and put them back together.
Through procedurally generated room layouts, shifting walls, unpredictable enemy placements, and ghostly encounters, Lyn must creep, sneak, and dash her way through hordes of ghouls and eerie ectoplasms in order to locate her friends and uncle. A bone-chilling boss fiercely guards each urn shard — Lyn must think on her feet to conquer each challenge. When she gets knocked out by a shadowy specter, she winds up back at the mansion’s entrance and must face an entirely new floor layout and enemy placement, ensuring each run is unique.
Haunted House is out now in physical format on Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5, available at major retailers including Best Buy, Target, Amazon, GameStop, and Walmart in the US, and exclusively at GameStop in Canada.
Pick up the digital edition for Windows PC on Steam, Epic Games, and on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Series X|S, and PlayStation 4 and 5.
