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Gloom: Unhappy Homes
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Gloom: Unhappy Homes

Requires:Gloom

Designed by Keith Baker

Published by Atlas Games, Black Monk + 2 more

Expansion
Casual Flow: 15 Min Teach
Game: Gloom

Community Snapshot

Medium-Light complexity
~30 min
6.6 on BGG (1.6K)
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Categories

Card Game
Cards are the primary component — may involve hand management, drafting, or deck building.
Expansion for Base-game
This is an expansion — requires the base game to play.
Humor
Designed to make you laugh — silly themes, absurd situations, or witty mechanics.

Rated 5.9 by the community, Gloom: Unhappy Homes brings hand management to 2–5 players in about ~30 min.

How It Plays

Hand Management

You have a hand of cards and deciding which to play, save, or discard is the core puzzle.

Storytelling

The game unfolds like a story, and players help shape the narrative — every session tells a unique tale.

About This Game

The Gloom: Unhappy Homes expansion adds one player and 55 cards to the game. Here is a description of the expansion from the publisher: In the Gloom card game, you make your eccentric family of misfits suffer the greatest tragedies possible before helping them pass on to the well-deserved respite of death. Just mix the 55 transparent cards included in this set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers, Events, and Untimely Deaths, and a new family -- the artistes of Le Canard Noir, whose creative endeavors always end in disaster.…

Source: BoardGameGeek

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Players: Expansions Changing Player Count

Players

2-5

Play Time

30 min

Complexity

1.7 / 5

Rating

6.6

Year

2005