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Landlord of the night!

It’s rough being a monster. For starters, it’s a pain to get a rental application approved. Other tenants can’t deal with vampires’ active night lives, and it’s a well-known fact that werewolves are rarely even paper-trained. That’s why you need to play Monster Mansion, a free-to-play building-management game for iOS. Someone needs to build the monsters a home. Will you do it?

Monster Mansion challenges you to oversee the lives of famous monsters like vampires, werewolves, ghosts, yetis, and more. The creatures of the night even work from home: if a human comes nosing around, he or she will receive a big “BOO” from the building’s tenants, who will then earn in-game currency. Nothing like doing the work you love.

You should check in on your monsters daily (take a spray bottle in case the werewolf starts chewing on the drywall—you need to nip that in the bud) in order to collect daily gameplay bonuses. You can also customize the mansion, unlock new features, upgrade rooms, and gradually attract new monsters as your mansion becomes a spoooookier place to live.

Monster Mansion hits iOS later this summer, so submit your rental application before those pushy college banshees take up all the rooms.

Nadia Oxford

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In the early aughts, Nadia fell into writing with the grace of a brain-dead bison stumbling into a chasm. Over the years, she's written for Nerve, GamePro, 1UP.com, USGamer, Pocket Gamer, Just Labs Magazine, and many other sites and magazines of fine repute. She's currently About.com's Guide to the Nintendo 3DS at ds.about.com.