Gloomhaven (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.6.0 Update + All DLCs

Gloomhaven is a cooperative board game for one to four players designed by Isaac Childres and published by Cephalofair Games in 2017. It is a campaign-based dungeon crawl game including a narrative campaign, 95 unique playable scenarios, and 17 playable classes. Since its introduction the game has been acclaimed by reviewers and has been described as one of the best board games ever made.

GAMEPLAY

Gloomhaven is a fantasy-themed, campaign-based tactical skirmish game, in which players try to triumph in combat-based scenarios which scale in difficulty depending on the number of players. The game is cooperative and campaign-driven, with one to four players working their way through a branching story consisting of 95 scenarios. The campaign develops in a legacy format, with stickers that are placed on the board and cards and sealed envelopes that are opened when certain criteria are met.

While it has drawn comparisons to role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons and other dungeon crawl board games, Gloomhaven uses game mechanics similar to modern eurogames. Characters and monsters move about on hex tiles representing dungeons and cellars.

Players simultaneously choose two cards to play each turn, each of which has a top and a bottom half, and choose the top half of one card and the bottom of the other to allow their characters to take actions such as moving, healing, and attacking monsters. Randomization is not provided by dice, as is usually the case with such games, but is handled by a deck of cards, called the “attack modifier deck.” As the campaign progresses, characters can increase in power, gaining new abilities and improving the cards in their attack modifier decks.