History VideoGame / HauntTheHouse

The star is a cute little ghost who lives alone in a mansion. One night, a bunch of high-class snobs throw a party in his house. The ghost isn't happy that these people are invading the house. So the ghost must scare them all out by possessing various household objects and making them do supernatural things. However, scare someone t''oo ''much, and they will be so desperate that they will jump out the window to their death. The goal is to scare all 30 people away as fast as possible, and with as few casualties as possible.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The main gameplay of playing as a ghost to scare people away from houses mark it as one to ''VideoGame/HauntingStarringPolterguy''.

* The monster from ''Literature/NotNowBernard'' makes an appearance as well.

A sequel, ''Terrortown'' was released in 2014. It involves multiple game modes, including the main one, ''Terrortown'', which involves scaring off a whole town whilst making a "ghost family" in the process, ''Mansion House'', which is a remake of the first game, ''North Pole'', a winter-themed level, and most recently, ''Ghost Train'', which takes place on a carnival train.

* The monster from Literature/NotNowBernard makes an appearance as well.

* The monster from [[Literature/NotNowBernard]] makes an appearance as well.

* CreepyOldFashionedDivingSuit: In Terrortown, there is a diver in the Cruise Ship area with an old-fashioned diving suit. When he [[spoiler:dies and becomes a ghost]], the diver retains his helmet even while scaring people.

->''"We begin at the stroke of midnight... Tonight will be the night of a haunting!"''

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Thanks to the ghosts' possession powers, ''you'' can become anything, from flickering lamps to moving statues. While you can't directly hurt most people (except for the special characters who [[spoiler:become unlockable ghosts]] in ''Terrortown''), but you ''can'' scare them into [[DrivenToSuicide jumping out the window]], if you're feeling [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential cruel enough]]. If not, then you can instead use everything to harmlessly make people run out the door.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: {{Inverted|Trope}}. Thanks to the ghosts' possession powers, ''you'' can become anything, from flickering lamps to moving statues. While you can't directly hurt most people (except for the special characters who [[spoiler:become unlockable ghosts]] in ''Terrortown''), but you ''can'' scare them into [[DrivenToSuicide jumping out the window]], if you're feeling [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential cruel enough]].

* TheCameo: Boggy from ''VideoGame/DetectiveGrimoire: Secret of the Swamp'' appears as an exhibit in the Museum.

* MorphicResonance: Each possessed object takes on the white, blue, and red colors of the ghosts.

!!''Haunt the House'' contains examples of:

!!''Haunt the House: Terrortown'' contains examples of:

* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' :

* VideoGameRemake: The "Mansion House" mode is a remake of the first game.

* TogetherInDeath: ''Terrortown'' has the ghost making himself a "family" by offing nine specific people, [[spoiler:two of whom, the Nurse and the Captain, are implied to have been his biological parents]].

* GoneHorriblyRight: If a person becomes too scared they'll kill themselves trying to escape and become ghosts themselves, moving into the haunted house permanently.

* BearsAreBadNews: The house contains a life-sized bear statue. When you possess it, you can make it roar at the humans, among other things.

* BlatantBurglar: The Thief character wears a domino mask and striped shirt, and tries to steal a dinosaur skull from the museum in broad daylight. [[spoiler:He retains his mask even as a ghost.]]

* BlatantBurglar: The Thief character wears a domino mask a d striped shirt, and tries to steal a dinosaur skull from the museum in broad daylight. [[spoiler:He retains his mask even as a ghost.]]

* TheaterPhantom: The Phantom character lives in an underground lair below the theater, wears a half-mask, and owns a pipe organ.

* AnimalMotifs: The Diver ghost is sometimes portrayed with four ghostly tails resembling tentacles. These, combined with his old-fashioned diving helmet and wide eyes, make him look like an octopus.

* HumanAllAlong: Averted. The Pharaoh ghost in ''Terrortown'' looks like he was just as human in life as the other ghosts, but because he's trapped in a sarcophagus, we don't see what he looks like until he becomes a ghost... [[spoiler:until we see the family photo at the end, which reveals that he was actually a cat.]]

* NamelessNarrative: Not one character is given a name.