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An isometric haunted-house management sim where fear is the product and your monsters are the liability.

Short

You wake up dead. The Bureau of Liminality hands you a haunted house and five demanding Patrons whose appetites you must satisfy. Scare your guests for screams, laughs, vomit, and mind shards, then build out the manor and assemble the gate before the Bureau notices the bodies.

Long

Hauntworks is an isometric dark-comedy management sim. You play the newly deceased curator of a haunted house in limbo, with no memory of your past life and no obvious way out.

The way out is the gate in the backyard, and the only ones who can give you its pieces are five Patrons, each a deity-touched horror with a competing appetite. Enki wants screams. Chester wants vomit. Wynn wants laughs. This Ol' Wood wants mind shards. Amun-maw wants ash and meat. You scare guests to harvest what the Patrons crave, process the resources, expand the manor, and recruit a roster of monstrous staff to help you haunt.

The catch: your staff are not safe around the living. Guests die. And the Bureau permits exactly two fatalities per lunar cycle before it dispatches an investigator. The comedy is built into the systems: competing appetites, mounting bodies, and an escape plan the Bureau already knows is a dead end.

• 01 · Run a haunted house (scares are the product)
• 02 · Harvest four resources (screams, laughs, vomit, mind shards)
• 03 · Feed five demanding Patrons (competing appetites)
• 04 · Recruit monstrous staff (who might kill the guests)
• 05 · Stay ahead of the Bureau (two bodies a cycle, then audits)
• 06 · Assemble the gate (your way out)

Title

Hauntworks

Developer

Elbow Elbow Games

Release

Halloween 2026

Platforms

PC (Steam) · Steam Deck

Genre

Isometric · Management Sim · Dark Comedy

Players

Single-player

Engine

Godot

Price

To be announced

Steam

store.steampowered.com ↗

Contact

[email protected]

• REC-01
  The Eye Opens Download
• REC-02
  Shadow Lounge Séance Download
• REC-03
  The Undertaker Roster Download
• REC-04
  A Guest's Quarters Download
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  Chester in the Yard Download

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  Main capsule Download
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  Poster Download
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  Key art Download
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  Library header Download
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  Logo (transparent) Download
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  Vertical capsule Download

About the studio

Hauntworks is made by Elbow Elbow Games, a solo studio. It is the studio's debut title, built in Godot.

Usage & monetization

You are free to feature Hauntworks in videos, streams, articles, and other content, including monetized content. No additional permission is required. Reviews, Let's Plays, and festival coverage are all welcome. Credit to Elbow Elbow Games is appreciated.

Press, creator, and festival inquiries: [email protected].