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2005 | Card Game | Horror | Humor

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No. of Players 2-5
Playing Time 60 min
Age 13+
Designer Keith Baker
Artist Michelle Nephew, J. Scott Reeves
Publisher Atlas Games

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Christopher Colflesh (17 KP) rated

May 28, 2019  
Gloom
Gloom
2005 | Card Game, Horror, Humor
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7.8 (8 Ratings)
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If you like scary themed games, this one is fun. The story telling can get really funny with the right group. (0 more)
It can be somewhat boring if no one wants to participate in the hilarity of the death stories part. (0 more)
A game for the right group
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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) May 30, 2019

Keep em coming, I got kudos to give....
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Rikki Hammond (33 KP) rated

May 27, 2019  
Gloom
Gloom
2005 | Card Game, Horror, Humor
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7.8 (8 Ratings)
Tabletop Game Rating
Unique concept and theme (1 more)
Plays well with all player counts
Really needs the right group of people to play it (1 more)
The theme can put some people off
A unique card game that is marred by it's own concept
I will come out and say this now: Gloom won't be for everyone. It's definitely a unique game, which can sadly be marred by it's own ideas.

The game revolves around each player choosing one of five families, and your goal is to make them as miserable as possible, before killing them in a wacky and gruesome way.

 The way you do this is by placing cards on top of each family member, which will give them negative happiness points. You can also place cards on other players members to give them positive happiness points, which ironically, are bad. Once you feel you've accrued enough negative points, you can kill them outright, removing them from the game. Some cards may have a symbol on them, which can add bonus points if a certain kill card is played on them in time, and every card has a little wording on the bottom, that tells a story of the grisly fates that await your family members. One person could be hounded by ferrets before falling down a well, or maybe excluded from a celebration before being mauled by bears.

Once all five of one players family members are dead, the game ends, and whoever has the most total negative points at the end wins.

Gloom is a pretty cool looki g game, as all the cards are transparent, and when cards are laid on top of each other, it can hide certain pieces of the card underneath it. The main draw of the game is the storytelling aspect of it, seeing how each family member is going to meet their death, and unwinding a story based off that.

Sadly, take this aspect away from it, and the game basically boils down to players placing cards on top of others until someone ends the game by killing all their characters, which can actually be a little boring in my opinion.

If you can find the right people to play this with, Gloom can be a lot of fun, but more often than not, this isn't the case, and despite the cool concept and looks, it can fall rather flat.
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