Gloom review

Gloom is based on the premise you must engineer your own families demise. It’s a game for 2-4 players but I think you can increase this with the various boosters available. It’s surprisingly fun! Firstly you choose from a selection of 4 families and draw cards as you’d expect.

There are four main types of cards Character Cards, Modifier Cards, Event Cards and Untimely Death Cards. The aim of the game is to get the lowest score.

For example, by playing “was driven to drink” means the Character has a -15 score, and the transparent cards means you can play on top of others. When your Characters are of a low self worth play an Untimely Death on them and then you get the points.

Once all your Characters are dead you total all the points up to see who ‘won’.

I’d highly recommended it, it gets very competitive, tactically speaking it’s ok, you can do things like kill off the other players’ characters when they are only -5 or so and win that way and the game lasts around 30-60mins.