Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 06:50 am
Goosebumps Horror Town – Simulation Game Review
Goosebumps Horror Town is a Simulation/Entertainment/Family game from PIXOWL INC., first launched in 30th May 2018.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 5,121+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Goosebumps Horror Town Stand Out
R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps" monsters have come to haunt your phone! In Goosebumps HorrorTown, you can build a town and fill it with the scariest of monsters from the hit horror series.
Gather a scary assortment of sinister creatures and terrify townsfolk, or play as humans to defend against the monsters! Collect resources, scare humans, investigate monster activity and explore the map to unlock new areas and adventures.
As monsters, you can scare humans to obtain materials and add new Goosebumps monsters. As humans, you can spy on monsters to find out what's going on in their town (if you dare).
The game features original content that will terrify and delight Goosebumps fans, with animations and missions for humans and monsters alike. The more experience you gain, the more you unlock new content, grow your town and discover chillingly fun new adventures.
KEY FEATURES
- Build & manage the town of terror!
- Create a complete collection of Goosebumps monsters!
- Over 100 playable characters!
- Craft and sell new items!
- Scare humans to collect special materials!
Are you ready to brave the horrors of Goosebumps? Download today, and enter HorrorTown…
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Note: An internet connection is required to play the game
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Goosebumps Horror Town is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th December 2024
Recent improvements include:
"Mickey, a shy guy from school, invites Lucy to his house to meet Bella, his new kitten. Dustin, sneaks into the party and scares Bella! She has now escaped and in danger, what will happen to her? Wait why is she gian now? Come to Horror Town and Find out!
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NEW CONTENT!
Story: 12 new event narratives!
Characters: Meet Mickey and his cat Bella! Bella is really cute and just wants to have a good time … Scratiching some Christmas presents!
Monsters: Bella is acting very weird lately…wait…is she becoming a monster?! Lets find out!
Items: Get the Cat Sweater, Cat Bed, Mouse toy, Fish Bones and Slashed Gift!
"Decorations: Frozen Lake, Box of toys, Eldritch cat wall, Bird cage
Mutant Cat, and More!"
Animations: Bad Kitty!!, Trying to not get eaten Sleeping in the tower and more!
Complete the event and collect creepy rewards!
Download & Availability
Goosebumps Horror Town is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Goosebumps Horror Town on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Ever since we got our new phone its been kicking us out but on our old phone it doesnt someone pls fix this or tell us how to fix it or could you make it work for IPhone 17s pls.
We love and miss this goosebumps game spent money on it so we are glad we can still access the game and not take it down like Adams Family. We wish they wouldnt have abandoned it and left it with Santa Claws.
It needs a are you sure button when spending any of the premium currency. Theres too many misclicks not to.
Theres no reason why every time we get $100 in game money we accidentally end up pressing a button and then our money disappears. Theres really no reason as to why that should be happening. Im so frustrated because this is our favorite game ever and its the only way we get to decompressed after a long day. Please fix this. On a side note this is one of our fav games ever so thanks for creating it.
We have always loved this game. Ive played it on and off for close to a decade. Would love an update for Halloween.
So first we love this game second we want to by the slappy story but it is a 100 G dollars and we really want it can you leer it please thank you But other than that we love this game.
We absolutely love goosebumps. This game exceeds our expectations in terms of the books, but Id like there to be an update at least, or change of events. Its been almost a year and its still Santa Claws, and Id also like a search bar for the items because theres so many things and we cant keep scrolling each time we want to decorate and god forbid we need more than one of the same item. Thank you.
We love this game but its still in Christmas mode, please update it to go back to normal or something at least. We hope to continue to play it.
Hi we dont know if this game is getting updated anymore but if it is can you guys add a search bar .so u can look up specific decorations and required and buildings and stuff .and also add a way to get past event items like after a event ends make the decorations and stuff from that event available to get with real money or in game currency.
We love this game but we have say please please give us an update! And also please reduce the pricing a little because its so hard to get the gold bucks and advance to other books. In our opinion, we think you should update with a bunch of his other books as well! Pleeeeease consider! Thank you :).
This game is really fun we just wish they would add more content 10/10 game definitely recommend yall to try it out.
Its a boy named Easton that got lost in the horror that have strange creatures and a evil knight that want to hang him and his friends in the horror wood forest of doom its could be horror story with more zombies and more Horror monster.
Dear creators, writers, coders, whomever is behind the scenes making goosebumps awesome. Before we begin, thank you for the game we all love! You guys rock! We know times are rough, we get it. We know your focus isnt on this little game that prob doesnt make you as much as other larger, more profitable games. But, Please hear us out . There are soooo many of us who LOVE this game you have created! If you need proof, we can get that for you. First & foremost, please do not end the game, ever. Lol Second, while we are patiently waiting for updates can you please throw us some little things to keep us entertained & engaged, while bringing some extra money into the game. Here are our thoughts -Allow us to purchase previous books some of us didnt have the app, missed the book & would love the opportunity to purchase them -Give us the opportunity to purchase previous monsters & events -Add rare items from previous events to bundles, some of us need them or just really want them & wouldnt hesitate to buy. Lower the cost of land. If we want to purchase, it takes ALL of our money. As much as we want to expand it is just so costly. These seem like quick things you can do that would keep us happy while being profitable to goosebumps. No? We really hope you take our thoughts into consideration thank you for listening. An overthinking, diehard fan xox.
Can we get updates like not having to scroll thru one bar looking for stuff, maybe a search bar? And more frequent hints for the game? And can we get a actual game update with new stuff? When is update.
We love this game it is so relaxing and calming really.
This game is amazing. We love all the different little scenarios you can do with the characters and story, BUT 1: we really hope this game gets an update soon. We love this game and it pains us to see it abandoned like this, and 2: PLEASE GET EASIER WAYS TO GET DOLLARS. We understand that it is how you get most of your money, but for a casual playthrough it can be frustrating to have many things locked behind a paywall. Maybe make the ATM cost coins instead of dollars? But those are our only criticisms for this game. Really fun and engaging. – Wollyhop.
There hasnt been an update of this game since and we want to be able to log into Facebook again so we can save our progress.
We love this game! BUT there is only one problem; there is no prompt notification for usage of dollar money! Ive been trying to save our money but we keep spending by accident because we pressed the wrong button by mistake. We just wasted $75 (game money) on something we didnt need because we were trying to press X but pressed the money option to skip the wait time on an item. Also, have the creators stopped updating the game? Because they have had the same app icon for a few years now. Its a Christmas theme lol.
Game is good expect for the lack of a updates but could you add a character and monster encyclopedia.
Dont get us wrong Ive had this game for quite a while and we recently just picked it up again and wow is it fun we just put some friends of ours onto this game and well we just feel like it needs a new update the cover loading screen is about goosebumps horror town Santa claws we feel like this game hasnt been updated in a while we just feel like this game has potential but feels as if the devs or the people behind this game abandoned it and just let it sit as is.
Your game is great but it takes a long time to load and at the very end its completely frozen please fix dev thx.
We love goosebumps we have lets get invisible and night of the living dummy.
The game is amazing! Its so fun unlocking new levels and areas and really fun with the monster storys and there is a lot to do although there were not all our favorite monsters and books from goosebumps like Revenge of the invisible boy and Camp cold lake also the beast from the east and deep trouble and if u could please add these and maybe your game would be more favorited and liked and more views and hopefully 5 stars.
We havent played this game in a long time but we just remembered it and we want to play it again but every time it is done loading it kicks our out. We dont want to delete the game because it will restart our progress and we already spent money on this game. Devs if you see this please fix this.
We love the game as a kid we were a big goosebumps fan the only problem we have is the mission payouts for quests is quite not near as much or even half as much as what we pay to obtain the building we need to start the quest. It makes it really hard to progress when it takes a week or two to buy the building for 300 premium currency and we only get rewarded 20 to 30 bucks.
We downloaded this at the recommendation in one of our gaming groups. We loved it and was playing for days until our save got messed up somehow and reverted back losing a lot of progress. Its obvious that the developers are not actively working on this app considering the last update was 10 months ago and all the developer links on app page are dead. Its really sad because its such a fun game and brings nostalgia to us. Maybe one day they will revisit it.
Updated review: This is STILL an incredibly immersive game, with loads of potential. We love the music and the art style, it's very aesthetically pleasing. The biggest fix this game needs is the constant nagging loading of the town, every time you scroll across it. The game should load up ONCE, that's it, not every single time you cross the map. The other cons: the gargantuan waste of time and hard earned money spent on the buggy suppliers. The gem ours is still buggy as are ALL the supplier buildings (timers won't start upon the game resets and only trigger countdown after tapping every one of them, same goes with the ATM and the Nomad Camp, but all of them will surprise you with functionality although, sporadically and often multiple items within hours. We initially wasn't aware that spawning monsters has a percentage required to achieve the special item so pro tip: work on unlocking special characters. We know for a fact now items WILL disappear, especially the rings it takes days to attain & other items of incredibly high value that take hours and hours to acquire through crafting. These bugs are really hard to ignore HOWEVER, after months of careful playing we have to say the game is joyful and rewarding. We do recommend it and wish the developers would perfect this work! So we better support them.
Would love to get an update. Were still on a Christmas theme and were almost in the middle of the year. Would love some new storylines. Something new would be nice.
Hi! We 300 dollars (in game) for the gem ours store and when we tried to get gems from it every time we would tap it to check how long we had left it would start back from 24 hours. (we bought it 24 hours ago) we have not been able to collect any gems and the time keeps resetting every time we close the app. Even if its running in the background it will still start over. Please fix this glitch.
It is still showing the Christmas theme. Some characters cant finish because the items arent available such as the box of toys.
Make story 12 available until the next update Its asking us to complete it but the story wont play because the even isnt there.
So, complaining about free gems, always seems a little hmmm to us, BUT, if you really want good progress, you must spend real $$. AND, there is an evil design element, which will take your dollars, even when you DONT want to spend them! When your start crafting an item in any of the crafting locations, there is a slight delay after you push the craft button. This makes you think that your tap did not register, so you tap AGAIN! However, about that time it registers, and what your second tap does, is hit the SKIP button! Now you just instantly spent the dollars you keep trying to save. ARRRRGGHHHH!!! A beyond frustrating! Now, dont tell us about the settings! We know about the confirm purchase setting! It has NO EFFECT on the Skip button. Skip is always instantaneous! It is SINISTER!!! Well, we are not sure how long we will tolerate it before we just delete the game. We have bombed games for less! The thing is, it is an enjoyable game. Not phenomenal, but good, so we have not yet been angry enough to bomb it.
This game was fun while it lasted . We forgot about it for almost a year since we could no longer play. The game kept crashing. Fast forward to today, 1 year later we Just tried it again and its still crashing when we open it SMH.
We never make reviews but we genuinely love the idea of this game and im writing this in hopes itll help the game get the update it needs. The game itself is fun apart from the wait times, the overpriced decor/items, the difficulty in obtaining items, and simply the difficulty in advancing in the story. We do love the decor and the buildings are pretty and aesthetically pleasing. However its lackluster compared to the negatives. Please fix your game :(.
It will fully load and then just shut off immediately upon opening.
We love this game. But its too easy to accidentally spend reward money with the slip of a finger. We watched ads worth 1 just to accidentally spend 30 on something stupid. Pls fix this this game is so fun.
We love this game so much the characters are so cool love this game and just started playing it thank you.
We used to really enjoy this game but now every time we go to load it crashes immediately and we havent been able to get into our game for months now! So upsetting.
Love this game and have been playing it on and off for years. The only thing is it doesnt let us update the game to its newest version. It was stuck from the valentines event for like 6 months.
Finally the crash of when you entered your town and loaded it the game crashed is fixed and we can finally play this game again since Halloween is just around the corner!!! YESS.
We like the game, but the only problem is to get dollars you actually has to pay money for it. Otherwise you cant get any further into the game so anyway this game is not free to play.
We absolutely loved this game, and spent almost every day during some free time expanding our town and bringing in new characters. But we got a new phone a few months ago, and havent been able to open the app since. Im only writing this review in hopes that someone can help us get back into the game.
Itd be nice if we could wipe everything clean to reorganize our whole town instead of doing it piece by piece.
Can you please make it so when you spend tickets to craft something it double checks. Ive lost 100 tickets because we accidentally click it.
Be careful what you wish for part three is broken for us we can do the quest and it gives us the character Carissa, but we didnt buy her house. It doesnt mark up with our characters.
Great game fun easy and fun to live in that goosebumps world. Pick it up.
We like the game but if you want to do the quest you have to spend real money!!! 9/3/24. We havent been playing for awhile. We started playing again couple of weeks ago. We like it but we have no neighbors. The friends we had are not playing game anymore. We want to know how to get neighbors again. Can you please help us to find neighbors who are playing. Thank you.
Love this game! One thing it needs is a edit mode where you can remove all items and rearrange your world. Because its to hard to rearrange without that feature.
Loved loved loved this game. Then we got a new phone and it stopped working! It wouldnt even open. Now with the new update it opens to main screen then crashes.
Took a break from this game but some reason we always end up coming back. Love the idea of setting up our own horror town. The only thing missing from this game is letting us add real friends to see their town. Im trying to get our sister into this game & would love to see her why we fell in love with this game. Please keep updating & we swear Ill keep supporting this game. Also throw in some real cash to help out.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.8
- Size: 105.95 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: PIXOWL INC.
Last updated: 16th December 2024 | Genre: Simulation, Entertainment | Developer: PIXOWL INC.