{"id":11590,"date":"2026-07-09T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:24:38","slug":"scream-operator-haunted-house-manager-announced-for-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/scream-operator-haunted-house-manager-announced-for-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Scream Operator: Haunted House Manager Announced for PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to operate Disneyland&#8217;s classic Haunted Mansion ride, this game&#8217;s for you. Introducing Scream Operator: Haunted House Manager, a game that, as the name suggests, lets you operate, manage, upgrade, and maintain a successful haunted house \u2013 all from the control booth of the ride. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Scream Operator is being developed by Japhet Interactive for PC, and it&#8217;s due out in Q1 2027. It&#8217;s a 2D, pixel-art, top-down management sim where you&#8217;ll operate your haunted house from the control booth \u2013 triggering pre-shows, dispatching ride vehicles, placing props and animatronics, sorting merchandise, upgrading your tech, paying the bills, and just surviving your shift. Oh, and of course the big goal: scare your guests!<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Scream Operator: Haunted House Manager &#8211; First Screenshots<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/scream-operator-haunted-house-manager-announced-for-pc.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">A playable demo is planned for Halloween this year. In the meantime, you can wishlist Scream Operator if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Ryan McCaffrey is IGN&#8217;s executive editor of previews and host of both IGN&#8217;s weekly Xbox show, <\/em>Podcast Unlocked<em>, as well as our semi-retired interview show, <\/em>IGN Unfiltered<em>. He&#8217;s a North Jersey guy, so it&#8217;s &#8220;Taylor ham,&#8221; not &#8220;pork roll.&#8221; Debate it with him on Twitter at <\/em>@DMC_Ryan<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/scream-operator-haunted-house-manager-announced-for-pc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/scream-operator-haunted-house-manager-announced-for-pc.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/scream-operator-haunted-house-manager-announced-for-pc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/scream-operator-haunted-house-manager-announced-for-pc.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11592,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/11592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}