Gloom title

The Game of Inauspicious Incidents and Grave Consequences

Gloom Box

Box info:

Designer : Keith Baker
Published : 2004
Publisher : Atlas Games
Players : 2 – 4
Ages : 10 to Adult
Playing Time : 30 minutes
Availability : In Print

Publisher's Description:

In Gloom, you control the fate of an eccentric family of misfits. Your goal is sad, but simple; make your characters suffer the greatest tragedies possible before helping them pass on to the well-deserved respite of death. Play cards with horrible mishaps like Pursued by Poodles or Swindled by Salesman on your own characters, while trying to cheer your opponents characters with happy occasions. The transparent cards reveal or obscure the effects of cards below; in the end, the totals showing through determine your score - may the most miserable soul win!

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What You Get:

20 Character Cards
58 Modifier Cards
12 Event Cards
20 Untimely Death Cards
1 rulesheet
Unhappy Homes - Gloom expansion. Just mix the 55 transparent cards included in this set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers, Events, and Untimely Deaths, and a new family -- the artistes of Le Canard Noir, whose creative endeavors always end in disaster.

Unwelcome Guests - Gloom expansion. Just mix the 55 transparent cards in this new set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers, Events, and Untimely Deaths, and a new family - the malodorous Malone mob - including The Broken Arms Hotel as a Residence card to use with the Unhappy Homes expansion.

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LINKS:Atlas Games

SIMILAR GAMES:Gloom: Unhappy Homes expansion now available

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