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My favorite board game is Gloomhaven. It's a cooperative dungeon crawler with a "campaign" of sorts. There's also a slimmer version of it called Gloomhaven: Jaw
by lghh 4y ago
My favorite board game is Gloomhaven. It's a cooperative dungeon crawler with a "campaign" of sorts. There's also a slimmer version of it called Gloomhaven: Jaws of The Lion that is less expansive and expansive, but is a great introduction to the game and feeds into the main product. It's also fun in its own right.
Not strictly a board game, but very board game adjacent, I have recently been playing a lot of Magic The Gathering and having a lot of fun with it. I have had bouts of playing it over the years, essentially one a decade since I was born, and it feels as good as ever.
- scubbo 4y agoHaving played the computerized version of Gloomhaven, I cannot imagine the complexity of playing it with physical components - I'm impressed!
- oneoff786 4y agoIt wasn’t complex so much as a slog to me. I had to give up eventually. It was just so tedious to set up each map. God forbid you don’t win the map. The actual gameplay was good.
- lghh 4y agoI didn't find it as bad as I think I would have expected had I played the digital version first. The best part about playing with physical components is that if you get some minor interaction incorrect you don't know you got it wrong and you just keep playing and are not any worse off for it. You can retcon silly mistakes as well, which is nice if you're like me and are in it for the fun of playing + hanging with friends instead of the fun of "besting" a specific set of rules an interactions.
- JoshTriplett 4y agoI enjoyed Gloomhaven initially, but I found myself losing interest because it's almost exclusively combat oriented. I wish it had more roleplay mechanics, and interesting choices and story developments more often than every few hours.