Gloom Card Game

TO THE LOSER GO THE SPOILS

Gloom is a card game with somewhat of a macabre theme – you’re trying to make your family as gloomy as possible before they die. The more miserable they are when they pass on, the better chance you have of winning. Just hearing the theme though, we can see how you might be turned off. The Gloom: Unhappy Homes expansion adds one player and 55 cards to the game. Just mix the 55 transparent cards included in this set together with your copy o. The Gloomhaven prosperity is one of key elements in the game. While in the end we did not made any mistakes in that aspect, we couple of times had a real issue to understand how it works. In essence you can get the prosperity ticks by something you will discover after opening envelope B – you are getting a “minor-tick”.

For some, a life lived well is reward enough. Kind actions, success in your career, and a large host of friends that cheer your name! These are the things that make sure you have won at this game called Life.

That's a great philosophy... unless you believe that your afterlife is determined by just how miserable a life you were suffered to live! Such is the fun fate of the families of Gloom for which torment and tragedy bring a smile.

PRODUCT DETAILS

2 to 4 players may join in this twisted card game where you strive to give your family the most tragic life imaginable before killing them off in embarrassing and ridiculous ways. Play a series of transparent cards to make your own family suffer or give miraculous bliss to the other players' families. Be poisoned by your homemade soup or star in a play that no one attended! For each tragic moment, feel free to narrate how it happened before trying to end the game with the most miserable deceased family possible. But, don't get greedy or one of the other players might make sure you live a long, happy life!

WHAT IS YOUR TRAGIC TALE?

Determine the fatal fate of your family by cursing them with dreadful doom such as being Beaten by Beggars or Preyed on by Poodles in a race to have the gloomiest family that's ever walked the Earth. This macabre game will have you laughing to the grave.

Gloom at a Glance

• In Gloom you make your family miserable while heaping happiness on your opponents.
• Featured on Tabletop with Wil Wheaton, with more than 300,000 games in print.
• Its dark Victorian flavor is a fan favorite, while transparent plastic cards make point calculations easy.
  
• Available expansions include Unhappy Homes, Unfortunate Expeditions, Unwelcome Guests, and Unquiet Dead.

I hope you have a morbid sense of humor, because we are about to play an award-winning card game named Gloom.
— Wil Wheaton, TableTop

Gloom Card Game Wikipedia

Misery Loves Company: The World of Gloom

When your family is made up of serial killers, crazed circus folk, and demonically possessed sociopaths, misery comes easy. InGloom, players control these misanthropic misfits. The goal? To make your characters as miserable as possible before allowing them the sweet respite of death. Along the way you'll make other players' characters horribly happy. Players narrate their characters' misfortunes and mishaps, creating unique stories of suffering in each game. May the most miserable soul win!

A Sad State of Affairs: Gameplay Basics

In Gloom, each player places negative Modifier cards on their family members to make them delightfully depressed, and positive ones other players' cards to keep them horribly happy. Untimely Deaths lock in points for good or ill.

The award-winning gameplay uses unique transparent cards that stack on top of each other to conceal and reveal the Self-Worth scores from the cards below. The easy scoring and evocative, gloomy art are guaranteed to endlessly entertain players. The game ends when one entire family has shuffled off this mortal coil. The winner is the player with the lowest score, whose family was the most miserable in life!

Gloom Card Game Families

Awards

• 2012 Featured on TableTop with Wil Wheaton.
• 2010 Family Games: The 100 Best.
• 2006 Origins Award Winner – Traditional Card Game of the Year.
• 2006 GAMES Magazine’s Games 100 List – Family Card Game category.
  
• 2005 InQuest Gamer Fan Award Nominee – Best Card Game.
  
• 2004 OgreCave's Christmas Gift Guide.

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