For Rent: Haunted House
Choice of Games · 2018 · Adventure, RPG, Indie, Text-Based
PC
6 user reviews67% · 6
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About For Rent: Haunted House
In For Rent: Haunted House, it's your job to rent out a haunted house before your tyrannical boss has you fired.
Your choices determine how the story proceeds. For example, when your tenants, who haven't slept in days due to bone-chilling whispers emanating from the walls, ask to break their lease, do you:
A) Let them transfer their lease to another property?
B) Allow them to break the lease, but keep their security deposit?
C) Insist on sticking to the terms of the lease?
D) Boldly investigate, like all the victims in bad horror films?
For Rent: Haunted House is a 56,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Gavin Inglis, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
How will you screw over your tenants? Will you ignore inconvenient supernatural phenomena, or use them to drum up publicity? How will you deal with ghost hunters, squatters, and celebrity tenants? Will you emerge as the top agent? Stage an office coup? Or will you become a permanent resident of 57 Crowther Terrace?
Your choices determine how the story proceeds. For example, when your tenants, who haven't slept in days due to bone-chilling whispers emanating from the walls, ask to break their lease, do you:
A) Let them transfer their lease to another property?
B) Allow them to break the lease, but keep their security deposit?
C) Insist on sticking to the terms of the lease?
D) Boldly investigate, like all the victims in bad horror films?
For Rent: Haunted House is a 56,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Gavin Inglis, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
How will you screw over your tenants? Will you ignore inconvenient supernatural phenomena, or use them to drum up publicity? How will you deal with ghost hunters, squatters, and celebrity tenants? Will you emerge as the top agent? Stage an office coup? Or will you become a permanent resident of 57 Crowther Terrace?
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
1. You can't be male or female as the game treats you as a genderless brick. 2. The stat increases are inconsistent with the choices. What I mean by that is that you may choose 3 choices to increase one stat and yet if you restart and repeat, those same choices may give you less than the previous play through even tho none of your choices have differed. 3. The whole point of this game is to rent out your (supposedly) ruthless boss lady's property and make enough money to prove your worth, beat your rival and get a promotion. Problem is, every time you have a nice chunk of change coming in from tenants, the author throws in some asinine wrench to disrupt your cash counting. Examples: 1. My first tenant was a Man and his family. This paranoid loon kept blowing up my phone every 2 minutes saying he heard weird noises in his place. I go to check it out, find nothing and he apologizes for disturbing me. Again he calls me claiming he is hearing things and ask to be let out of his lease. Of course I'm not going to let him out of his lease because that would be detrimental to my goals. He can leave but I'm keeping the deposit and there's a termination fee for the lease. That's business.…11 found this helpful
Usually I very much enjoy Choice Of games, but this onw was honestly a little boring. There was almost no social aspect, and no real relationships. It feels quite short and left me with no strong feelings. This particular story is genuinely just a straigtforward "What would it be like to be a real estate agent who isn't particularily good at anything and has a kind of vreepy house?" There were so many spots I thought so much more would happen, but ended up being a loose end or just not flushed out at all making it feel rushed. My biggest complaint though would probably be lack of control over who my character was. Several times throughout I was forced to choose options I would never want to pursue and just left me feeling bad about it. I genuinely don't feel satisfied having spent money on this story. I really wanted to like it.6 found this helpful
Very charming and smirk-inducing. Combines the Jeeves-esque with the spooky, with engaging results. The only weakness is a slightly slow start.4 found this helpful
Honestly a great story. I only went through it so quickly because I had already read it on my phone. I'd give it an 8/10.2 found this helpful
I quite enjoyed it! I've got only 1 ending so far but I'll definitely play more! [spoiler] I feel like I did my boy Russell dirty, so gotta try and save him next time! [/spoiler]
Good game. Has some great humor in it, and it's fun to play. It lets you make some pretty fun and unexpected decisions that impact the rest of the story. Recommended
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