The Murder House is a survival game where you are trapped inside an evil house that constantly spawns vile creatures and horrible monsters at you. Your mission as a captive inside this house of horrors is to be the first and only survivor. In The Murder House, you spend your turn searching the different rooms, collecting Item cards. These functions as a sort of currency in the game. Currency which can be spent on different Gear. Gears can be anything from a medpack, a helmet, goggles, that grant you new abilities. If these are combined correctly, you will have a Set. The Sets offer a huge bonus to these abilities. The Murder House offers you free movement, based on a limited set of movement points. These points can be permanently or passively be either increased or decreased based on effects given through either Action cards or Gear and Sets. As you plan your escape, you will be hunted by villains. Each round, a Villain card is drawn - revealing the location of the Villains. If you want to make it out alive, you'll need to make use of the many hiding places inside the house: Shower curtains, fireplaces, underneath tables and inside cryo tanks - when the Villains show up, you do NOT want to be seen. —description from the designer