Gloomhaven*
+9BGG Top 100
Cooperative
Storytelling
Fantasy
Deck-Building
Solo Mode
+28 more
- As d'Or 2020🇫🇷
- Deutscher Spielepreis 2019🇩🇪
- Hunter & Cron Award 2018🇩🇪
- Hunter & Cron Award 2019🇩🇪
- Hunter & Cron Award 2020🇩🇪
- Hunter & Cron Award 2021🇩🇪
- Hunter & Cron Award 2022🇩🇪
- SPIEL'17🎡
- SPIEL'18🎡
- Deck Construction
- Once-Per-Game Abilities
- ❤️Matt SU&SD
- As d'Or🇫🇷 - Expert game.
- Expert game
- Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming🇺🇸
- Feuerland Spiele🇩🇪🏢
- Deck Construction
- Once-per-Game Abilities
- Recovering Actions
- Campaign/Battle Card Driven
- Actions Queue
- Dragons🐲
- Line of Sight
- Legacy
- ❤️Matt SU&SD
- Hunter & Cron 2017
- BGG Top100🥇
- Top 100⭐
Gloomhaven is a Euro-inspired tactical combat game set in a persistent and evolving world. Players assume the roles of adventurers, each with unique skills and motives, as they explore dungeons, ruins, and engage in cooperative battles against automated monsters.
Gameplay Overview
- The game unfolds over multiple sessions with a changing world and branching story.
- Players make decisions that shape the narrative, similar to a ""Choose Your Own Adventure"" book.
- Scenarios are played cooperatively, with players fighting automated monsters.
- Combat utilizes an innovative card system for determining initiative and actions.
- Each turn, players choose two cards, combining their top and bottom powers.
- Players must manage their card resources carefully as they can permanently lose cards.
- Failing to complete objectives in time may lead to exhaustion and retreat.
Conclusion
Gloomhaven offers a deep and immersive experience of tactical combat and storytelling in a persistent game world.
Nominated for 22 awards and won 10.
- 👥 1 - 4 Players
- ⏱️ 60 - 120 Minutes
- 🧒 14+ years old
- 🧩 Hard to learn
Video reviews, ratings, Let's Plays and tests for Gloomhaven
We like Gloomhaven so much that we recommend it in the following board game recommendation lists 2026
- Position 10 in All "As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année"🇫🇷 2020 winners & nominees compared.
- Position 7 in All "Deutscher Spielepreis🇩🇪 2019" game award winners & nominees in comparison
- Position 33 in All games of the "Hunter & Cron Patreon Award 2018" list 🇩🇪
- Position 50 in All games from the Top100 "Hunter & Cron Award 2019" list 🇩🇪
- Position 54 in All games from the Top100 "Hunter & Cron Award 2020" list 🇩🇪
- Position 56 in All games from the Top100 "Hunter & Cron Award 2021" list 🇩🇪
- Position 68 in All games aus der Top100-"Hunter & Cron Award 2022"-Liste 🇩🇪
- Position 44 in Best games released at SPIEL 2017 in Essen
- Position 62 in Best games released at SPIEL 2018 in Essen
- Position 15 in Best games where you build your deck before the game
- Position 24 in Best games with once-per-game abilities
- Position 35 in The 59 favorite games of Matt from SU&SD
- Position 17 in The best "As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Expert"🇫🇷 winners & nominees. (Expert Game)
- Position 2 in The best Board Games for Hardcore Gamers
- Position 9 in The best "Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming🇺🇸" winners and nominees
- Position 17 in The Best Games from Feuerland Spiele 🇩🇪🏢
- Position 15 in The best games where you can construct your deck of cards before the game starts
- Position 24 in The best games where you can perform an ability once per game
- Position 17 in The best games where you can retrieve actions
- Position 23 in The best games which are campaign or battle card driven
- Position 27 in The best games with action queue
- Position 30 in The best games with dragons 🐲
- Position 13 in The best games with units with limited vision / line of sight
- Position 17 in The best legacy board games - every game will be different!
- Position 35 in The 59 favourite games of Matt from SU&SD
- Position 23 in The favorite games of Hunter and Cron in 2017
- Position 14 in The Top ${items.length} games🥇 on Boardgamegeek (BGG)
- Position 38 in The top 100 highest-rated board games
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