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The Dark Souls of board games.

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"Welcome to Gloomhaven!"

Gloomhaven is an enormous tabletop game developed by Cephalofair Games. Up to four players pick from the six starting classes to play cooperatively as mercenaries working in town to complete jobs, get treasure, and pursue personal quests assigned at character creation. As players progress they will upgrade the town of Gloomhaven, while unlocking new scenarios, items, class abilities, and classes. The game features a branching narratives, a persistent, changing world, and many secrets to unlock as the game's content is explored.

The primary gameplay is experience during monster fighting adventures (referred to as Scenarios). Players enter the dungeon with a hand of cards they get to choose from their classes unique pool, with each card split into a top and bottom half. Each round a player will use two cards and perform the top action of one card and the bottom action of the other, with the goal being to complete the Scenario's objective before everyone is killed or runs out of cards. The monsters they face are controlled automatically by a combination of AI-guided rules explained in the rule book and a monster-specific deck of actions and abilities that they draw from each round. Encounters have variable setups based on the number of players present and encounter level scales with the party's level.

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An expansion titled "Forgotten Circles" was released in 2019, adding a new class, enemies, and around 20 scenarios to the game world, serving as the conclusion to the game's main story. Another expansion titled "Jaws of the Lion" was announced in 2019 and was released in July 2020. It is described as a scaled-down version designed to bring new players into Gloomhaven, but is just as playable to series veterans. A second large expansion, entitled Frosthaven, was announced in December of 2019 and was released for a Kickstarter release in March 2020. The campaign successfully concluded raising over $12 million, and is set for a March 2021 delivery date.

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