Gloomhaven is a cooperative board game designed by Isaac Childres and published by Cephalofair Games in 2017, intended for one to four players and built around a campaign-based dungeon crawl structure. The game includes ninety-five unique playable scenarios and seventeen distinct character classes, and it follows a legacy game format in which the box's contents, rules and map change permanently as the campaign's narrative progresses across sessions. Each scenario typically takes between ninety and one hundred fifteen minutes to complete, and players cooperate using a tactical combat system built around hand management of ability cards rather than simple dice rolling. Gloomhaven achieved rare acclaim within the hobby board game community, reaching the top-rated position on BoardGameGeek in 2017, and it went on to win six Golden Geek awards, cementing its reputation as one of the most influential cooperative dungeon crawl games of its era.
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Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Connections
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1. Gloomhaven (Wikipedia)
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a cooperative board game for one to four players
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a cooperative board game for one to four players
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published by Cephalofair Games in 2017
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