100
Even if you have never heard of the legendary board game Gloomhaven, you should not miss its digital adaptation. If you enjoy ingenious turn-based strategies and dark fantasy, Gloomhaven is the game for you. In addition, thanks to multiplayer, you don't have to go on dangerous expeditions alone, and thanks to the support of creating new scenarios, the game offers an endless number of adventures and rotten dungeons.
90
The best-reviewed board game in the world gets its own digital adaptation - and it’s excellent. The board game comes to life thanks to beautiful animations and sounds. This is a true treat for any strategy game enthusiast.
50
Gloomhaven tries to bring the experience of the board game on our screens, but fails to recreate the feel of being around a table. The game, although very loyal to the source, lacks pacing and the missions (very repetitive after a while), even at the lowest levels, are incredibly hard and for the most part frustrating. It is definitely overwhelming for a new player, and way too much relying on RNG for a good result. A good opportunity that sadly doesn’t really deliver.
0
Load it up on Epic [got it for free], it tried to make me sign in, I wasn't going to play online so I clicked the x and got out of that window, and that gave me an infinite loading screen. Online people say you HAVE to log in, which is awful for a single player, so I try with the Steam option and with Facebook, and the window is blinking rapidly and glitching out, so I manually sign in to Epic [EVEN THOUGH I OPNED IT IN EPIC] and the game works. I open it up the next day, and it wants me to log in AGAIN, and doesn't remember even my email address, WTF IS THIS?????
5
This seems to do a good job of replicating the board game but when you're not sitting around a table with friends it just feels too slow and overly complex for new players.
5
Never played the tabletop and tried this game for free. Surprisingly, I could not find a gameplay tutorial and decided to wing it. Has to be some of the most convoluted gameplay I've ever seen. Of course it involves cards instead of dice but you start the game by discarding cards and then discard cards to play cards and discard cards to rest and every turn and soon you are left with no cards. Oh, and the 2 cards you play each turn you can only play half a card. I might give it another try but I was wholly not impressed and got bored rather quickly watching my deck dwindle to nothing in one playthrough.
Gloomhaven
Released On:
Jul 17, 2019
Metascore
Generally Favorable
82
User score
Mixed or Average
6.5
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Feb 18, 2022
100
Even if you have never heard of the legendary board game Gloomhaven, you should not miss its digital adaptation. If you enjoy ingenious turn-based strategies and dark fantasy, Gloomhaven is the game for you. In addition, thanks to multiplayer, you don't have to go on dangerous expeditions alone, and thanks to the support of creating new scenarios, the game offers an endless number of adventures and rotten dungeons.
Oct 21, 2021
90
A high-quality adaptation of the board game with plenty of content and rich replayability. What it does seek to offer, the gaming experience of a classic tabletop board game for one or more players, it achieves in an almost flawless way.
User score
Mixed or Average
44% Positive
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42 Ratings
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Aug 12, 2023
10
Despite a very rough start to this game, the PC version is now OK with recent patches. Gloomhaven is a good game, and this PC port is reasonably good.
Aug 12, 2022
10
definitely a perfect implementation of the board game. 10/10 in every aspect of the game. you get the full rig dungeon crawler experience here
Oct 25, 2021
85
Gloomhaven’s jump from board game to PC keeps the game as strategic and satisfying as it ever was, all while streamlining the experience and opening it up to new avenues of play. The genuine effort of the creators shows through to a game that is worthy for fans and newcomers alike to struggle against the hordes of doom that threaten your very cards.
Nov 1, 2021
80
Gloomhaven is a great way to bring the boardgame powerhouse to the PC and let many players enjoy its strategic and puzzle structure.
Oct 15, 2021
80
At its core, Gloomhaven is a deep tactical experience that’s immensely satisfying once you get to grips with its layers upon layers of systems. It also includes multiple options to vary the difficulty, so newer players don’t feel overly punished by making mistakes, whilst strategy aficionados can dial up the challenge to match their ability.
Nov 11, 2021
70
That aside, Asmodee continues to demonstrate why it is the best digital board game developer going around. Gloomhaven itself is a little insular compared to the likes of Game of Thrones, Arkham Horror, Ticket to Ride, Pathfinder and Lord of the Rings, so I suspect it will appeal to a narrower band of players than some of Asmodee's other adaptations, but the faithful quality of that adaptation and the stellar production values make it an easy sell to existing Gloomhaven fans, and the ideal way to those that were intimidated by the size (and cost) of the box when they've seen it in their local game store to give it a go in the first place.
Nov 22, 2021
50
Gloomhaven tries to bring the experience of the board game on our screens, but fails to recreate the feel of being around a table. The game, although very loyal to the source, lacks pacing and the missions (very repetitive after a while), even at the lowest levels, are incredibly hard and for the most part frustrating. It is definitely overwhelming for a new player, and way too much relying on RNG for a good result. A good opportunity that sadly doesn’t really deliver.
May 9, 2022
10
Gloomhaven digital is an outstanding implementation of the highest rated board game of all time as per ****, which won also the board game digital adaptation of the year 2021 award. I played the boardgame for hundreds of hours before getting the digital version, so my biggest concern was if this could lure me into replaying the boardgame campaign another time. it did by adding a whole new game mode and smaller optimizations such as reworked balancing. I've not encountered the omnipresent bugs mentioned in other reviews here, so I assume they have been patched in the meantime.
Oct 29, 2024
7
Solid implementation of the board game. Over all I am pretty happy how faithful it was to the original. I took a few points off due to the implementation of the game was a little rough. It is easy to skip your turn accidentally. Also, not having an undo button if you accidently select something is painful, especially when you have to restart a round.
Apr 23, 2023
4
So BORING, TEDIOUS, ridiculous mechanics, you can't even **** move without playing cards even when no enemies are present.
Jan 9, 2022
2
Incredibly boring. For context I'm a huge strategy, tactics and rpg nerd having sunk thousands of hours into these formats since 1990. Gloomhaven takes the tactical rpg template and adds layer upon layer of annoying, contrived mechanics in order to create difficulty but which just reduce the fun factor instead. The core culprit is the card burn system which means you run out of actions over time. The abilities are already weak (like attack at range for 2 damage.. which has a significant chance to be a 1 or 0 due to combat rolls), do on top of being weak are also scarce. I get the need to create tension and pressure but the system chosen here reduces fun an increased tedium. Exhaustion (which is when you run out of cards) could have instead been a resource that you spend on moves, like energy. The end result is that it can take two hours to complete a tiny fight in 2 rooms. Even if you are victorious, it feels like a job. Like work. Without any of the satisfaction that other tactical fighters deliver. If you love strategy and tactics and are thinking about buying, go watch one of the 3 hour YouTube walkthroughs of a single tiny scenario, where one turn sometimes takes 15 minutes just to decide which cards to burn, and imagine if that's how you want to spend 3 hours. If so go for it
SummaryWhether you are drawn to Gloomhaven by the call of adventure or by an avid desire for gold glimmering in the dark, your fate will surely be the same. Gloomhaven, the digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game, mixes Tactical-RPG and dungeon-crawling.
Platforms:
- PC
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date:Jul 17, 2019
Developer:
- Flaming Fowl Studios
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