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Buy Gloom Card Game with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Newegg shopping upgraded ™. Gloom is a tabletop card game created by designer Keith Baker and published by Atlas Games in 2004. It won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game in 2005. Four expansion packs have been created since the release of the original game called, Unhappy Homes, Unwelcome Guests, Unquiet Dead and Unfortunate Expeditions. 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.

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• In the Gloom card game, you assume control of the fate of an eccentric family of misfits and misanthropes. The goal of the game is sad, but simple: You want your characters to suffer the greatest tragedies possible before passing on to the well-deserved respite of death.
• Gloom is both the best and worst name for this superb little card game. On the one hand, the objective really is to spread gloom among the quirky family you adopt when you play.

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Gloom is a tabletop card game created by designer Keith Baker and published by Atlas Games in 2004. It won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game in 2005.^[1] Four expansion packs have been created since the release of the original game called, Unhappy Homes, Unwelcome Guests, Unquiet Dead and Unfortunate Expeditions.^[2] Additionally, In August 2011, Cthulhu Gloom, which serves as either a standalone game or a fifth expansion pack, was released,^[3] and one Cthulhu expansion pack has been released, called Unpleasant Dreams.

Gameplay[edit]

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The game is for two to four players who each are given control of an eccentric family. The object of the game is to lower the self-worth points of the player's own family with cards that cause negative events, eventually killing them. At the same time, positive points are played on opponent's family members. After one family is completely killed off, the player with the lowest Family Value (the total points of all dead family members) is the winner of the game.^[2]

Other Versions[edit]

Expansion packs are available for the game, which each (except Unquiet Dead) add an additional family and allow for more than 4 players in the game. The packs also include new modifiers and Untimely Deaths. In 2013 a limited number of the TableTop Gloom Promo Expansion was released. Including in the deck are two unwanted guests (TableTop host Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day) that can wander from family to family.^[4]

There are also several spin-offs of the game, which are played separately from the original Gloom:

• Cthulhu Gloom uses a Lovecraftian theme for the game. A new element in that game are Story cards, which add special effects through the game, or extra points at the conclusion of the game. Cthulhu Gloom can be played with 5 players without an expansion pack.
• Munchkin Gloom is based on the Munchkin series of card games from Steve Jackson Games. It was released in the summer of 2015.^[5]
• Fairytale Gloom brings classic fairy tale characters and other elements to Gloom's unhappy setting. The game was released June 2015.^[6]
• Gloom in Space uses science fiction tropes and characters, many of which are nods to sci-fi favorites like Han Solo or The Doctor. It was released in early 2017.

Critical reception[edit]

An element of the game that was appreciated by game designer Greg Costikyan was the optional aspect of storytelling involved when playing an event card, where a player can choose to explain the events that happen in the course of the character's life. Costikyan stated that this added 'a unique aspect to game play and [made] the game play particularly enjoyable'.^[7]

References[edit]

1. ^'Origins Winners of 2005'. Originsgamefair.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
2. ^ ^ab'Gloom: Gloom Products'. Atlas Games. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
3. ^Furino, Giaco. 'Dangerous Games: Cthulhu Gloom Board Game Review'. Fearnet. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
4. ^'Gloom: TableTop Promo Expansion'. Board Game Geek. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
5. ^WORLD OF MUNCHKIN page on MUNCHKIN GLOOM
6. ^Fairytale Gloom page on Atlus Games' website
7. ^Costikyan, Greg (2 May 2008). 'Gloom: The Game of Inauspicious Incidents and Grave Consequences'. PlayThisThing.com. Retrieved 15 March 2009.

External links[edit]

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