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Games like Gloomhaven

Looking for games like Gloomhaven? You want the long-haul dungeon crawl where hand management is everything, co-operative decisions matter each turn, and solo play holds up on quieter evenings. Frosthaven is the natural next campaign — same designer, deeper outpost layer, more classes to unlock. Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion is the opposite choice, trading scale for a shorter on-ramp that fits twenty-odd scenarios into one box. Mage Knight Board Game swaps the scenario book for a single tactical puzzle, but keeps the same brain-on hand management that Gloomhaven players tend to favour. All three work well solo, and all three reward groups who like mapping a campaign over weeks rather than booking a one-off night. Here are the closest fits our scoring engine found for Gloomhaven, weighted by mechanism and group size.

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  1. 1
    Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion

    shares action queue (+17 more mechanics) · similar weight (3.6)

    84
    match
  2. 2
    Frosthaven

    shares campaign / battle card driven (+15 more mechanics) · weight 4.4

    81
    match
  3. 3
    Mage Knight Board Game

    shares card play conflict resolution (+11 more mechanics) · weight 4.4

    69
    match
  4. 4
    Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood

    shares card play conflict resolution (+8 more mechanics) · similar weight (3.7)

    64
    match
  5. 5
    Too Many Bones

    shares cooperative game (+6 more mechanics) · similar weight (3.9)

    60
    match
  6. 6
    Kingdom Death: Monster

    shares cooperative game (+7 more mechanics) · similar weight (4.3)

    60
    match
  7. 7
    Sleeping Gods

    shares cooperative game (+5 more mechanics) · weight 3.3

    59
    match
  8. 8
    Spirit Island

    shares action retrieval (+8 more mechanics) · similar weight (4.1)

    57
    match
  9. 9
    Arkham Horror: The Card Game

    shares communication limits (+8 more mechanics) · similar weight (3.6)

    56
    match
  10. 10
    Nemesis

    shares campaign / battle card driven (+5 more mechanics) · weight 3.5

    54
    match
  11. 11
    Slay the Spire: The Board Game

    shares cooperative game (+3 more mechanics) · weight 2.9

    53
    match
  12. 12
    Mansions of Madness: Second Edition

    shares cooperative game (+6 more mechanics) · weight 2.7

    53
    match