Planned Release Date: August 2026

About This Demo

You died, or so you thought. Your soul is trapped in a liminal haunted house until you can satisfy five otherworldly entities. They don't want money. They want screams, laughter, vomit, and mind shards from the living.

Orchestrate your operation room by room. Place traps where the flow of guests is heaviest. Chain together scares, laughs, and gore for bonus resources. Where the house falls short, do the scaring yourself with a variety of supernatural spells.

Manage a team of creatures each with a personality, skill set, and needs of their own. They are not easy, but they get the job done. Experiment to find where they are most useful. Oh — and they may occasionally slay a customer.

Five supernatural entities, the Patrons, keep you in Limbo. They each want a specific resource from the living. Fulfill their requests, and they'll help you plan an escape. Or you may just end up liking them enough to stay.

Screams, vomit, laughter, mind shards: all raw material. You must compress them, combine them, and refine them into products of increasing absurdity.
"Accidents" happen, right? Guest deaths attract attention, some of it warranted, but always unwanted. You'll need to dispose of any bodies before the Bureau of Liminality catches on. Otherwise you may have to sweet talk them. How you handle the Bureau determines how much time you have.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Hauntworks is a dark comedy about running a haunted house. Guests can die as a result of the scares you build, and their bodies become raw material: you can drag them to a furnace, or let your undertaker staff process them into crafting resources. This is shown in a stylized, cartoon low-poly art style, with red blood effects — splash particles, ground stains, and one staff character who works on corpses with a cleaver. No dismemberment or mutilation is depicted.

The story includes two brief non-interactive cinematics dealing with the player character's own accidental death.

The game also contains mild profanity and comedic references to death, bodily functions, and crime.