Spooky Mansion Manager Beginner’s Guide and Tips

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Spoilers ahead! So if you haven’t already, maybe give the game a go first? This is a Complete guide to Spooky Mansion Manager so we’ll dive deep here! Feel free to translate this to other languages! Źródło: I made the game.

Save files can be located in

C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\LocalLow\Saksorb\Spooky Mansion Manager\SaveData

Settings file can be found in

C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\LocalLow\Saksorb\Spooky Mansion Manager\Settings

Note that AppData is by default a hidden folder so you need to set hidden folders visible from View settings in Windows folders. Neither of these files need to be touched however you may want to take a backup from time to time. Settings file is generated on startup of the game so will not be there until you first start the game.

Łatwy – Start with three random Themes unlocked, 1000 Money and 100 Magic Dust. Increased revenue from Spooky Tours.

Normalna – Start with two random Themes unlocked, 500 Money and 80 Magic Dust.

Hardkor – Start with one random Theme unlocked, 300 Money and 60 Magic Dust. Forced Randomized Popularity and manual saving disabled.

Autosaves happen every 10th week.

Since Randomized Popularity is active, spoilers and previous experience will do you no good. Instead you need to research the random Theme given to you at the start and feed the Gargoyle for a tip on Genre and Audience. Having a poor combination in the beginning will surely doom your game so prepare yourself for starting over a few times.

Hire the first employee available. After getting a good combination of Theme, Genre and Audience, you need to maximize the duration of the Spooky Tour, so make it 12 tygodnie. Hire a Magic Dust Collector early on as you need to keep coming up with good Spooky Tours as well as Plan the Renovation of the second floor.

Skip insurances until you get the second floor Renovated and just keep your fingers crossed. Getting the second floor renovated is your primary goal early on as the game gets a lot easier after that. Keep in mind that the game autosaves every 10th week so don’t hesitate to load up the last autosave if things take a wrong turn.

You should be able to get the second floor around the 10th week. After that you should prioritize buying advertisement upgrades. After buying those, aim for the third floor. Only unlock themes and ask tips if you run out of valid options. Having two floors and advertisements running should generate decent revenue even with mediocre combos.

Sklepienie

Nie ma tu wiele do powiedzenia. The goal for each difficulty is to buy 100 gold before week 101.

The price of gold increases each week:

przez 2 % until week 30

przez 1 % from week 31 to week 60

przez 0.5 % from week 61 onward.

This is to prevent the price from skyrocketing. As a general advice you should only start buying gold after unlocking all three floors of the Mansion.

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Make them as soon as possible since they unlock new floors and increase revenue substantially.

Get them as soon as you have two floors renovated as the upkeep is high for only one floor.

Employee salary is 10$ per level when hiring, but only increases by 5 when leveling up. So getting these is generally worth it. These work for all employees so you should wait until you have multiple (tj. until you have renovated at least the second floor)

The hiring fee is 30$ per level which makes these generally good (since you don’t have to pay hiring fees if you don’t need to replace resigned workers). Again works for all employees so you should wait until you have multiple.

Badania

You should have at least one Magic Dust Collector hired from the beginning as Magic Dust is needed for unlocking Mansion floors via Planning Renovations as well as everything Theme related.

The amount of unlocked Themes varies depending on the Difficulty selected with Easy having three, Normal two and Hardcore only one Theme. Unlocking Themes is vital since repeating Theme and Genre causes -20 % revenue for each repetition.

Researching Themes tells you which Genres work for the Theme researched. This is especially important when playing with Randomized Popularity (which is mandatory in Hardcore) as previous runs or spoilers won’t help. Look at the end of the guide for spoilers.

This is important and should be prioritized as early as possible. Hiring two or more Collectors after unlocking the middle floor to acquire third and final floor faster can be a good strategy especially in easier difficulties.

This can be used to negate the effect of repeating tours and is good place to spend extra Magic Dust.

Personnel

Employee rerolling costs 25$ which is expensive when starting out. As a rule of thumb you should only reroll workers when you have all Employee Benefits (prevents resignation) active as finding high level employee is costly and having them resign will lose that money.

Hiring cost is 30$ per level and weekly salary is 10$ per level. Not having an employee hired will drop the revenue from that floor by 50% so always have an active worker.

You should only ever fire employee if you have gotten all of the Employee Benefits and the employee is of low level so you can replace them with higher one.

Insurances are tricky. They save you a lot of money when Random Events occur but can cause you to go bankrupt early on as they increase Upkeep by 25$ per week (każdy). Random Events that can be ignored with Legal Insurance are usually rarer yet more costly compared to those ignorable by Accident Insurance. Starting out you can’t afford both and because Legal Insurance saves you from higher amounts (and therefore prevents bankruptcy) it is recommended. Having both insurances active is generally worth it however only after having stable income (tj. second floor renovated).

Creating Tours

All of the Spooky Tours which have ended are shown here. Especially, when using Randomized Popularity you should check here often as the average income is a good indication of whether the selections made were good.

Calculating income starts with comparing selected Theme and Genre. These can be researched beforehand to know which combos work the best. Repeating the same Genre and Theme (even if Audience is different) causes a -20% to the revenue for each repetition. Spoilers for the combos can be found at the end of this guide.

Genre and Audience also affect the income generated by the Spooky Tour. These you get from the Gargoyle by feeding it 100$ for each combo (given randomly). All unlocked tips are shown in Upgrade Menu. Spoilers for the combos can be found at the end of this guide.

Duration in weeks (tj. obraca się) can’t be changed after Spooky Tour is started so use 12 weeks only when you’ve done your homework (Research and tips from Gargoyle). Also note that cleaning takes one week after the Spooky Tour ends regardless of the Duration and during this time the Spooky Tour doesn’t generate income. This makes balancing Duration even more important.

The information you have from both Research and Gargoyle are shown in the summary to help with decision-making. You should avoid having any negative modifiers if possible.

Spoilery

Notatka: These will only apply when Randomized Popularity setting is disabled on game start.

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