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Gloom: Unfortunate Expeditions
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Gloom: Unfortunate Expeditions

Requires:Gloom

Designed by Keith Baker

Published by Atlas Games, Edge Entertainment + 1 more

Expansion
Casual Flow: 15 Min Teach
Game: Gloom
Players: Expansions Changing Player Count

Players

2-5

Play Time

30 min

Complexity

1.8 / 5

Rating

6.7

Community Snapshot

Medium-Light complexity
~30 min
6.7 on BGG (857)
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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.
Horror
Dark, scary themes — survive monsters, solve mysteries, or face the unknown.
Humor
Designed to make you laugh — silly themes, absurd situations, or witty mechanics.

Designed for 2–5 players and playable in ~30 min, Gloom: Unfortunate Expeditions delivers a medium-light experience that earned a 5.8 on BGG.

How It Plays

Hand Management

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

Role Playing

You take on a character with unique abilities and make choices as them — step into someone else's shoes!

Storytelling

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

About This Game

The Gloom: Unfortunate Expeditions 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 in this set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers, Events, and Untimely Deaths, and a new family of intrepid explorers who've faced misfortune across the globe.…

Source: BoardGameGeek

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Year

2009