Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

Produced by a team with decades of experience in haunts and themed entertainment, this creative tycoon game lets you turn an empty warehouse or field into a world of horrors. Design your layout, fill it with perfectly placed scares and atmospheric lighting, audio, and decor. Then hire a talented crew of scare actors and unleash your twisted creation upon the general public. 

Design Your Layout

Start with a blank space — a warehouse, a shuttered store, maybe even a soundstage — and transform it into a functional haunted attraction. Lay out your guest path, build and theme your walls, and fill every hallway and corner with props, decor, and atmospheric touches that bring your sinister vision to life.

Engineer the Fear

Place actor-led scares and animatronics along the path and craft elaborate sequences with strategic timing and placement. Chain scare and distraction combos, and dial in every room until guests are sprinting for the chicken exits. (Sorry, no refunds.)

Set the Stage

Dial up your haunt's atmosphere and fear levels with ambient lighting and sound. Use custom trigger sequences to sync lighting, animatronics, and even scare actors. And of course, you can't forget fog, air cannons, or smells (did they say smells?). Combine effects to recreate classic haunt illusions such as Pepper's Ghost, blacklight rooms, the laser swamp, and much more.

Open the Gates!

Open the gates and watch the spooky season chaos unfold. Manage ticket pricing, marketing, and the flow of guests through your haunt while keeping the whole operation afloat as actors tire out and complain, animatronics break, or security incidents slow the line to a crawl. If you can prove yourself a creative and profitable haunter, bigger opportunities are on the horizon.

Features

• Full haunt design tools — Build and paint walls with dozens of texture options and hundreds of themed props with per-item recoloring

• Scare sequences — Position actors and animatronics, set trigger zones, time sequences, and chain scare combos

• First person POV — Step into your guest's shoes and experience your wicked creation from eye level

• FX equipment — Fog machines, gobos, strobes, speakers, lasers, and much more

• Guest simulation — Several guest archetypes with unique fears, tolerances, and group dynamics

• Scare actors — Hire the very best crew (you can afford), assign them costumes, rotate breaks, and keep your scare team performing night after night

• Security — Hire guards to handle line-cutters, rowdy drunks, and the occasional uninvited troublemaker

• Maintenance — Keep animatronics firing and fixtures glowing as wear-and-tear piles up

• Economy — Balance General Admission and Front-of-Line ticket prices with actor salaries, attraction maintenance, and nightly rent

• Reputation — Prepare for Influencer and VIP visits that can make or break your haunt's reputation

• Amenities — Increase revenue with snack stands, gift shops, bars, and bathrooms. (You didn't forget bathrooms, did you?)

• Seasonal loop — Build, open, review, rebuild. Every season is a chance to go bigger and scarier

• 3 handcrafted scenarios at EA launch — with many more to come, plus full sandbox mode

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

ScareZone is populated with horror-themed props and decor including severed body parts, bloody corpses, skeletons, and other standard haunted house set pieces. All gore is presented in a haunted attraction context — no violence is depicted or performed. The game includes comedic references to bodily functions, alcohol, and nicotine usage.