Gloomhaven

EvEvanstar4.6

This is a dungeon crawl game with a sprawling ongoing campaign and certain legacy mechanisms where you alter the map, and your characters across multiple plays. The game is completely diceless, so it relies on a flip-luck card driven combat modifiers, which are a little more interesting as over time you can customize the contents of the various combat decks to a certain extent. The writing is well enough for a game like this. Not terrible, but not very compelling. The components are rough, as rather than this being a game with tons of nice minis, everything outside of player characters are standees which can be hard to see or differentiate from each other. Health and monster stats are also tracked off on the side of the board, which means it can get confusing as to which monster does what and who has however much life left. Mechanically players are fueled by ability cards, where you choose two cards from your array, then use the top half of one and the bottom half of the other. At times this can be an interesting puzzle, but over the course of the game you wind up losing cards from your array, and when the players lose a map, it's more often to players falling over due to not having enough cards left to finish than it is to actually getting trounced in an interesting tactical puzzle. I find this to be somewhat disappointing when it happens. Downtime between turns is also quite long not only because of the awkward bookkeeping but also because as players chose their cards for the next round. They aren't allowed to talk about what they plan to do specifically, so turn order flies a little blindly with players stumbling over each other at times. :nostar: Art, Iconography and components functional :star: Clever or interesting mechanisms :nostar: Reasonably low downtime between turns with mildly AP players :star: Multiple plays stay interesting :star: Low or mitigatable luck elements :star::star::star::nostar::nostar: Raw enjoyment

BaBalleflassstar7.5

I really like the system and the gameplay. My main gripe is that it starts to feel kinda repetative after maybe 15-20 scenarios. Setup is no problem when using the app on a tablet to automate all NPC AI and modifier decks.

Jan Solostar9.0

Colaborativo de combate táctico. Original mundo de fantasía medieval. "Dungeon crawler" con mecánicas euro. Acciones de jugadores muy variadas y originales. Campaña de 95 escenarios. Un juego que marcó un antes y un después en mi vida lúdica.