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Haunt the House: Terrortown

A side-scrolling action puzzle game starring ghosts! Leave the dusty halls of an abandoned clock tower to haunt your way through a town in the dead of night! Possess objects with your ghostly soul, to scare…

60 26 October 2010 ESRB E10+

Haunt the House: Terrortown is an adventure developed by SFB Games, released 26 October 2010 on PlayStation Vita, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Haunt the House: Terrortown is

Haunt the House: Terrortown is an adventure game developed by SFB Games and released in 2010. It is available on PlayStation Vita, iOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on Adobe AIR. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A side-scrolling action puzzle game starring ghosts! Leave the dusty halls of an abandoned clock tower to haunt your way through a town in the dead of night! Possess objects with your ghostly soul, to scare people away from a museum, a hospital, a theatre and a cruise ship. Will you be able to scare everyone out and reclaim what has been lost, before the night is over?
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 25 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Haunt the House: Terrortown holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbook class devices and 512 MB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Haunt the House: Terrortown launched on 26 October 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Call of Duty: Black Ops. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Quick answers

Haunt the House: Terrortown — frequently asked questions

When did Haunt the House: Terrortown come out?
Haunt the House: Terrortown was released on 26 October 2010 for PlayStation Vita, iOS, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.
What are the minimum PC requirements for Haunt the House: Terrortown?
At minimum, Haunt the House: Terrortown needs 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbook class devices, 512 MB RAM, 200 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Haunt the House: Terrortown?
The PC version needs about 0.2 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("200 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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