The cards have a really unique see-through design that helps you to total up your misery points! Gloom is a fun, macabre, card game that’s easy to learn. While you’re making your family miserable, the other players will be trying to make your family happy! They don’t want your family to be miserable! The more miserable your family members are when they perish, the more points you get! Tell the story of their lives to your competitors. In Gloom, you play the head of a family and it’s your job to make them as miserable as possible and then shuffle them off this mortal coil! You might poison them or give them crippling debt.Įach time you play a card on a family member, you describe what has happened to your poor unfortunate character.
In most board games you’re striving to be the happiest, the best, most progressive player.
