“And while the tiny
opera singer strolled through the swamp lands in an attempt to shake the sorrow
of her recent divorce, she strayed too close to the water, and got Mauled by
Manatees!”While a sentence like that may not seem out of the ordinary to a player of games like Munchkin, Gloom diverges in that you are inflicting such cards upon your own characters!
Perchance, good sir,
what is Gloom?
Gloom is a tabletop 2-4 player card game published by Atlas games in
which players try to inflict the most woe upon their chosen gothic Victorian
family before ending their misery with the sweet release of death. It lasts between 45 and 75
minutes depending on your group, and can weave elements of storytelling into
the competitive card game components.
It is immediately recognizable due to it’s transparent plastic cards,
allowing modifiers to interact in a novel way by ‘blocking’ what can be seen
from cards played earlier.
