Gloom: Digital Edition

The complaints about this game in other reviews almost kept me away from it, but as someone without a lot of people to play this with in real life Gloom Digitial Edition is a welcome addition to my library of board/card games. If you're looking at this review it's because likely you already know what the game entails and you'd like to know if it's worth your money and for this reviewer, I believe it is. First off the pros - This game is utterly macabre and delightful, the animations the characters make when you afflict them with a malady are cute, and the gameplay is smooth. Any reviewer saying the game runs slow isn't being honest with their definition of slow, the animations the characters take are 3 seconds at most, and there is even an option to turn off this feature for quicker more streamlined gameplay. The game plays well and it's well worth your money. The cons - While this game has an online function, currently, the rooms are ghost towns and you'd be lucky to get in one ...

I like this game as a card game, and the dialogues given the the Addams Family style characters is entertaining (and Mr. Giggles is properly disturbing). However, the game needs a back-up function. It is incredibly easy to accidentally drop a card on the wrong character (aka YOUR character) when you were aiming to make your opponent's life difficult. There is no confirm function at the end of the turn or a back up button to say "No, Game. You put that card in the wrong place." So, the game in principle is fine. The video game controls are not.

I'm a big fan of the card game so I was looking forward to playing this. On the one positive note, the game has a charming interface and does bring some of the fun of the card game to the screen with some cute animations. However, this is not enough to recommend this game. It has several fatal flaws that really hurt game play significantly: [list] [*]The game uses another third-party service for online game matches instead of Steam, which apparently does not have much of a userbase. As a result, its difficult to ever find a match, simply nobody is playing online. [*]The AI has one setting "stupid," and can't be adjusted for harder play. This means you'll have to suffer through its decisions to do things like players ending the game when they are losing or helpfully taking out your last player when you are ahead of everyone else. [*]The game is incredibly slow for no good reasons. The game still slows to a crawl between turns, not allowing you to do things like look at your...

I bought this game to play multiplayer with friends during the pandemic. The developers have decided to remove the multiplayer feature making the game useless to me. Not impressed.

Don't buy this game they've removed multiplayer support.. i bought this because i wanted to play multiplayer with a friend, barely had it 5 months.... really sad

Pulled multiplayer now from this game, bought this over 2 weeks ago so no refund Don't waste your time buying this, the bots are useless and the game is crippled

Summary: Digital version of a great storytelling card game that left out the storytelling. Overview: Gloom is a card game from game designer Keith Baker (creator of the Eberron campaign setting in D&D 3rd Edition, among other things). The goal is to make your family have the most depressing storyline, ending with their untimely deaths, while also trying to make your opponent's family cheerful. The setting is very much based on macabre dark humor, there's a kind of Addams Family feel to it all. The digital version nails the look and feel of the card game nicely, with the interface comparable to other Asmodee board game adaptations - nothing is well explained, nor is it very complicated. The music is melancholic and the characters speak with a flat voice of disinterest, appropriately. So far as the gameplay goes, it plays like the real card game, and looks fine doing it. But the problem is that the fun of Gloom isn't in the mechanics of the game, really. Gloom is fun becau...

Discontinued multiplayer. Literally useless

They removed multiplayer after we bought it to play with our friends. I would recommend not buying anything from this company.

Don't bother. The real, physical card game, with real people at a real table... that is fun. This, however, is a disaster of a game. Navigating anything is a chore, and actually anger inducing after a while, since you can't see more than one other person's played cards at a time, you have to click through other players individually to see. Often leading to repeated switching back and forth before you make a decision.. and it makes no effort to explain anything if you don't understand how the cards work. The removal of online multiplayer is a major kick in the pants. Why the hell would anyone want to play a multiplayer card game alone with the shittiest of bots? If you're looking for a good game to play with friends, just buy the real thing and, hell, put the cards under a camera and stream it to friends and play that way.. you'd essentially get the same, if not better experience except, you'd still technically have online multiplayer unlike this ****-show of a game. I can't recomme...