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Frosthaven
Developer Snapshot Games Inc.
From the creative mind of Isaac Childres, the highly acclaimed board game moves to the digital realm in the video game adaptation of FROSTHAVEN! The dark fantasy tactical RPG features deep mechanics and challenging yet satisfying gameplay both in Single Player and Co-Op Online Multiplayer. From the Steam store page
501 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
64
Fresh
227 positive · 128 negative
95% range 59–69%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 227 | 128 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 18 | 5 | 90 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 18 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 13 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
523 of 720 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
68% recommend · 150 yes, 70 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 220 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (711 of 989 positive).
Many players praise the digital adaptation for being faithful to the board game and improving on Gloomhaven's digital version. [1][2][3][4] Several reviewers report significant bugs, especially in multiplayer, with frequent disconnections and crashes. [5][6][7] Some players find the game too hard and the UI confusing, particularly for starting classes like Blinkblade. [8][9][10][11]
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Representative posts
- [5]
Me and friends have been looking forward to this game for a while now, and yesterday, the four of us actually started a playthrough, but we couldn't progress properly, because the game constantly disconnected and kicked us out, and even full-on crashed a few times. Same room, same network, 3 well above average pc-s, and no matter if you were on wifi or cable, the game disconnected one of us almost every round of …
- [10]
Frosthaven the boardgame is an exceptional sequel to Gloomhaven. This Frosthaven client has a nice veneer, but the UI/UX in combat is awful. The bad UX is a consistent and frequent source of frustration in every session I've played. **UPDATE** After playing more missions, I wanted to add another point to my review: Many scenarios have special rules that require players to play a certain way, or to strategize a …
- [1]
This is, of course, not yet complete, but seeing what has been done so far, I have no reservations about recommending this to any fan of the board game version of Frosthaven or Gloomhaven. The features released have been reliable and accurate. One warning: Frosthaven is tuned to be considerably harder than Gloomhaven, so you may want to start on a lower difficulty.
- [3]
Great game already even if it's still early access. So much game time is offered for the price. These devs should be cited as role models for their early access roadmap and commitment to the players. If you enjoyed the boardgame Frosthaven or Gloomhaven +digital, you will love this version of Frosthaven. 3 irritating aspects of the boardgame are better in the digital version : the buildings and town attacks …
- [2]
As someone who played the Gloomhaven digital and wanted to like it as I love the board game I just completely bounced of the digital Gloomhaven game. Ultimately it just felt clunky and frustrating. Try to pull off a combo only to realize the card wasn’t clear or you didn’t read it right? So deflating. Now enters Frosthaven. With the added city and upgrade options this is light years better than Gloomhaven in terms …
Summarised from 34 of the 332 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Frosthaven talk about faithful adaptation of the board game without setup hassle; those who didn't talk about multiplayer disconnections and crashes are frequent. Which matters more to you?
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60 of 501 · most liked firstMe and friends have been looking forward to this game for a while now, and yesterday, the four of us actually started a playthrough, but we couldn't progress properly, because the game constantly disconnected and kicked us out, and even full-on crashed a few times. Same room, same network, 3 well above average pc-s, and no matter if you were on wifi or cable, the game disconnected one of us almost every round of combat, so I unfortunatelly cannot recommend it yet, at least for multiplayer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd hold off on this for now until the developers fix more bugs. The blinkblade, one of the six starting classes, is basically unplayable. Firstly, the cards are literally not represented correctly, so it is not actually possible to understand how the class works without referencing the cards from the board game. In the board game there are base parts of the card with slow and fast modifiers - the video game doesn't work like this at all and it has a slow half and a fast half. While that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FIrst off, I do want to say how much I love Frosthaven as a game. I have played a bunch with the tabletop, and even more online. HOWEVER, I want to say that the changes done to the UI from the Gloomhaven video game to this have been about 70% worse, and 30% better. The art and visuals are beautiful, the models are great. The new intro is fun and good at teaching the game, and unique to the video game version. However, they removed the icons to show how many triggers you have on a buff card,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Now that Ben & Adam have finished TLOU series, they've decided to go on a quick side quest to Frosthaven! Join the boys as they check out an early build of the game in a #sponsored look! twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun
neutral · AI labelView post →The Backerkit campaign for Gloomhaven 2nd edition, RPG and miniatures is up. Cephalofair Games has just launched their new crowdfunding campaign on Backerkit. It’s essentially three different projects bundled into the same campaign: * The 2nd edition of Gloomhaven * Different sets of miniatures for the enemies and summons in Gloomhaven+expansion, JotL and Frosthaven * A new Gloomhaven themed RPG.
neutral · AI labelView post →I haven't played for nearly enough time given the calibre of this game, but I have so much love for Gloomhaven that I just wanted to write a quick review of my experiences thus far. Firstly, I like to consider myself a fairly seasoned Gloomhaven player. I have a couple hundred hours in both the online and physical copy of the game. I have never played Frosthaven prior to this. And for the first couple hours, I just couldn't get into this game. I found it way too overwhelming character wise…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had our monthly Frosthaven game last night ✨ It's my job to add any stickers to the map so I guess you could say I'm kind of a big deal 😏
neutral · AI labelView post →Squeaked my 9x9 in, it was a good year for games.. It was down to the wire but got my 9x9 done for the year! It was an eclectic mix of games this year and there were some that I wish I'd played more often just didn't make the time. Quick thoughts on them all: 1) The Crew - Really fun, starts out getting you in the groove and feeling smart about your team and your choices and then quickly ramps up. I'd like to be able to play it with the same people a bit more often as too many times…
positive · AI labelView post →I got to tell Polygon my favorite board game of the year. (It was Frosthaven.) Check out the list for a lot of amazing games! www.polygon.com/23979940/bes...
positive · AI labelView post →Frosthaven the boardgame is an exceptional sequel to Gloomhaven. This Frosthaven client has a nice veneer, but the UI/UX in combat is awful. The bad UX is a consistent and frequent source of frustration in every session I've played. **UPDATE** After playing more missions, I wanted to add another point to my review: Many scenarios have special rules that require players to play a certain way, or to strategize a certain way. This Frosthaven client typically communicates ZERO of these rules, so…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot in good conscience recommend this game currently. While we've been playing 4 player games and most things work OK, the de-sync's and game breaking issues with starting characters is just a huge let down. Geminate and Blinkblade are both starting classes and both are handled horribly by the UI. The cards on blinkblade not showing the appropriate fast or slow numbers (just show both, why try and be fancy?). The Blinkblades fast specific traits not being shown on the card, which causes an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game and it's mechanics, great! The digital version (as it is now), not so great. Cards lack some crucial info and multiplayers keep getting booted out at random (literally just while looking at their cards during beginning of turn). We both have gaming pcs way above the game requirements yet lowering the graphics did help (a bit). Clunky UI or datamining, idk, but it's annoying. Annoying enough to loose interest in playing multiplayer. We played on Aug. 7th. They said they fixed the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just realized it has been a week since I posted so here's my catch up games post with pics Wolves Frosthaven Heat:Pedal to the Metal
neutral · AI labelView post →TL;DR: 100% recommend if you plan to play solo. Be warned if you're in it for the multiplayer, desync issues do exist and completely cripple MP sessions. My group of 4 couldn't even finish a single turn due to desyncs. We tried different combinations of hosts. people joining, skipping prologue and everything led to a desync very early into the first round of combat. Game is great solo but multiplayer is a major aspect and in its current state I simply cannot recommend it to anyone wanting to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The board game Frosthaven is getting a video game with the designer of X-COM.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you need to play this game digitally, just get Gloomhaven and play that instead. If you've already played Gloomhaven wait a few years for this to finish, and drop in price. Too little content of the actual full game for the price they are asking. I've hardly played this since the beta, and the UI and controls were very non-intuitive. I'd much rather just play in person.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From last evening, geekin' out with Frosthaven. Monster keeps the board game evenings going 🤭
neutral · AI labelView post →All things considered, he did pretty well at his first game of Frosthaven. Only took a few redirects and he gave up on fighting monsters and had a snooze on the couch for the rest of the game. It was cute to see him run off with a Night Demon though.
neutral · AI labelView post →As of right now, I cannot recommend this game to anyone except masochist and seasoned strategy gamers. The difficulty off rip is ridiculous, even on standard. I played Gloomhaven on Hard and found it punishing yet fair. This one just leaves you with no reprise. I've been stuck on the prolog mission with the "kill all enemies" objective but the Banner keeps summoning more. 3 new enemies every round after the first round is insane, especially with the seers stat blocks. I think the devs need to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The board game Frosthaven is getting a video game with the designer of X-COM #Frosthaven #Gaming #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →happy one year anniversary to my Frosthaven group, we are now 1/3rd of the way through the game
neutral · AI labelView post →HUUUUGE fan of Gloomhaven, had the boardgame, and have finished multiple campaigns in the digital version. I was super excited for FH to drop... But I find it's unnecessarily complicated, somewhat confusingly worded at times, and seriously too hard. Like, genuinely unbalanced for early game. In a two person party, to be faced with "kill these 10 enemies" missions, with an effective game timer (structual damage, for example), when the enemies in question have better abilities and attacks than we…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fundamentally a fun game, but still super buggy. I would wait a bit before buying.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Painted a crab monster mini from the board game Frosthaven for a friend. #Frosthaven #miniatures #monsters
neutral · AI labelView post →Gone Digital: Snapshot Games will release a video game adaptation of Isaac Childres' Frosthaven — screenshot below — with a beta test starting on March 27, 2025. You can sign up here: www.playfrosthaven.com/en/ BoardGameGeek page for Frosthaven: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/29... —WEM
neutral · AI labelView post →Setting up a senario of Frosthaven with our son. Slight spoilers I guess in that early in the game you may find a room this shape. Sorry to ruin the surprise. #boardgames
neutral · AI labelView post →This is, of course, not yet complete, but seeing what has been done so far, I have no reservations about recommending this to any fan of the board game version of Frosthaven or Gloomhaven. The features released have been reliable and accurate. One warning: Frosthaven is tuned to be considerably harder than Gloomhaven, so you may want to start on a lower difficulty.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frosthaven is an excellent tactical, co-op experience and a great successor to Gloomhaven. I unfortunately cannot recommend the experience in it's current state due to a number of infuriating issues. The UI appears to be designed for a solo-player experience, which leads to unnecessary time wasting particularly regarding short and long resting. The lack of quick undo's creates a frustrating experience that greatly hinder the flow of the game. Most infuriatingly, HALF THE SCENARIO'S HAVE…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This isn't "Early Access", it's an alpha. It's impossible to get through a multiplayer session without game-breaking bugs. Embarrassing, because they had a great game in Gloomhaven, and I don't understand why the follow-up is so broken. This is the buggiest trash I've ever played.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After over a year, we’re finally attempting the last Frosthaven scenario! (I promise.. eventually I’ll post infosec content. But right now it’s Board Games and Corgis)
neutral · AI labelView post →Frosthaven Game Day! @betachamp.bsky.social @wolfpupblade.bsky.social @pupbolt.bsky.social @pupatlas.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Played hundreds of hours of gloomhaven digital. Bought this for 1.0 launch and started a multiplayer. Desynced twice before we could play a card. Get your stuff sorted out...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a review of this game as a port. This is quite a bad port. As a game, it's fine. It's more challenging than a random tactics game and there is quite a lot of reward to communicating moves with players and cooking up some sick combos. There is more to say about this game as a game, but I will just get to my main gripe with it. As a port, it's awful. First is the terrible UI. There are quite a lot of actions that in a boardgame would be trivial but for whatever reason it's super tedious…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have mixed feelings regarding both the game, and some of the other negative reviews. The UI is fine. Other complaints, I don't understand. One review cited "losing a mission to UI confusion is soul-crushing." The game autosaves literally every turn. At most, make a mistake, go back 10 minutes and play the same turn again? The game is quite hard and requires some trial and error, reloading autosaves, can be annoying. But losing a scenario to UI confusion? Skill issue. Very good, if hard, game.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had such a good time last night roping @meetalicee.bsky.social into my fave game Frosthaven. Also very excited to procure a special new item that had my name on it!
positive · AI labelView post →This game is in early access. I know that and have set my expectations based on that. My expectations are : "some portion of the board game is playable with some bugs that get resolved over time, with more content added over time" What's outside of my expectation that I've encountered: - bugs that wholly prevent progressing - hotfixes for those bugs that don't fix them - bugs that were *resolved* in gloomhaven reappearing, mostly in multiplayer. Inexcusable to gain nothing from having…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Builds on Gloomhaven in every way with more interesting character builds and engaging scenarios. Town management is interesting and again, just enhances what was in Gloomhaven. This *is* a tabletop adaption. It has all the quirks, design choices and features of a board game that has been adapted. That means there are choices, friction and a little clunkiness that a purely digital game would probably avoid. Keep that in mind. EDIT: 1.0 experience so far has been no bugs, desyncs or glitches
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would like to recommend this game, but really I cant. All the same issues that were in Gloomhaven are here and not fixed. I have ran into multiple issues while trying to play with my group, both with connection as well as just game play things not making sense or being explained. Ive had enemies act different on a different run of the same scenario. If you really love Gloomhaven and were okay with the bugs you will still enjoy this game. But right now the amount of bugs just keeps making it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who played the Gloomhaven digital and wanted to like it as I love the board game I just completely bounced of the digital Gloomhaven game. Ultimately it just felt clunky and frustrating. Try to pull off a combo only to realize the card wasn’t clear or you didn’t read it right? So deflating. Now enters Frosthaven. With the added city and upgrade options this is light years better than Gloomhaven in terms on meta progression for me. Also they added a full undo button! Miss read a card…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What even is this Frosthaven Boss fight!? It was just so stupid hard, compounded by unknowingly bad choices 3 scenarios ago. Played it twice with different characters and it just brutalized us. The first FAIL in hundreds of hours playing this amazing game. Bleh
neutral · AI labelView post →So far so good. Some definite things could be improved. One of the biggest issue our group has is the short rest scenario -- requiring everyone to ready up their cards before a short rest can be performed is a huge pain. It's like you sit waiting for everyone to decide, then you find which card you lost, then you have to decide... not ideal at all since we want to coordinate. Besides seems arbitrary to do it that way since everyone can change their cards once selected (before you do after your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the concept and gameplay of the Haven universe. Gloomhaven digital was a bugfree, clean UI and an overall well made game. But THIS? How it's supposed to be a stable release? I played 4 scenarios in 5 hours and around 2 hours were spent finding ways to not crash. Dx11 start, settings modification and every possible combination of in game cards and actions. I kinda felt like Dr. Strange, 14.000.605 combinations to find one that do not crash. And the support is a big joke, "Join our Discord…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My top5 #boardgames as of 2025: 1️⃣ Sky Team 2️⃣ Frosthaven* 3️⃣ Dune: Imperium - Uprising** 4️⃣ SETI 5️⃣ Ark Nova * Shared with Gloomhaven ** Shared with Dune: Imperium
positive · AI labelView post →What to say about this game, trying to get multiplayer to work is much like trying to get an elephant to pick up a toothpick with its tail. It may be possible, but its going to take a lot of tries.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to know a guy in college who I lost touch with after finishing up. About 10 years later we reconnected through mutuals, and now I've been hanging out with him every week playing Gloomhaven (and now Frosthaven) for about 6 years. I'd say that paid off.
neutral · AI labelView post →❄️ Frosthaven 🛡️ The highly anticipated digital adaptation of the acclaimed board game is here! Dive into this dark fantasy tactical RPG, a spiritual successor to Gloomhaven, offering deep mechanics and challenging gameplay. #indiegames #RPG #TacticalRPG #BoardGameAdaptation
neutral · AI labelView post →Peppermint hot chocolate aka Frosthaven at the Board Game cafe for trivia night.
neutral · AI labelView post →The multiplayer de-sync issues are just as bad as they've ever been. Wild that this is still an issue.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are going to play this game alone it is alot of fun. There are alot of different characters with each having something that makes them unique and powerful. There is also a lot of content in this game. Playing a campaign can easily take around 100-150 hours. However if you are looking for a co-op game with friends, this game is just impossible to recommend at this point. The amount of disconnects and instant crashes is just insane. I hoped the 1.0 release would fix this, but unfortunely…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game already even if it's still early access. So much game time is offered for the price. These devs should be cited as role models for their early access roadmap and commitment to the players. If you enjoyed the boardgame Frosthaven or Gloomhaven +digital, you will love this version of Frosthaven. 3 irritating aspects of the boardgame are better in the digital version : the buildings and town attacks management, plus the annoying calendar of events. They made it quick and simple which…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is basically functional, and I haven't encountered too many bugs so far, but this is by far the worst UI anyone has ever conceived of for anything. I don't know how they managed to make this worse than Gloomhaven's, but they succeeded against all odds, bless them.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing multiple campaigns, both solo and with a group. I have the physical version of this game and its' predecessor, Gloomhaven. Other than the Blinkblade issue where you don't know what the specific fast/slow modifications are, I haven't experienced any major issues. I can see myself playing this game for 100s of hours. So much content. I also prefer this over Gloomhaven.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had our second session of Frosthaven this afternoon. It was nice to enter the world again. I can see the game will improve with the number of plays. #boardgames #boardgamesky
positive · AI labelView post →I want to love this game. There's soooo much potential and I really liked Gloomhaven on Steam. But this game has too many game-ending bugs. I played for ~15 hours in a single player campaign (playing 4 of the characters) and it was great...until I got to a point where the game kept crashing with a "scenario library error". It first came up with the blinkblade, so I assume the game state got into an unhandled condition. I don't know, but the crash kept ocurring over and over and over. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While in early access i was ok with bugs and frustration but now that it's 1.0 i still have a bunch of frustration with the multiplayer desyncs and i'm not ok with 20+ mins of trying to get THE GAME TO WORK. If you do like the premise of the game and have a friend group to play it with its worth just having one person get the game and screensharing on discord that's how bad it gets in sometimes OR you can also play gloomhaven digital as it's bugs are a lot lesser and usually not as bad while…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is way too buggy. You'll frequently play a mission for an hour or so before finding out that you need to restart it because killing a random enemy causes the game to crash no matter how many times you reload that turn. And that's just when the game crashes. Items don't always work like they're supposed to, the UI is glitchy, and they somehow decided that the default Blinkblade cards should be the ones that make it impossible to tell what they do (and fixing it requires going to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have to give Frosthaven Digital a downvote. Why ? Because i was an EA backer, and for example the Blinkblade Fast / Slow Time Token Bug is STILL in the Game, which is a well known Bug. Also, not giving EA backers the option to buy the expansion as an addition - i could only buy the whole game again with expansion, this is beyond greedy. Loading times are reasonable - but tbh with those map sizes it should load instantly, and i have by no means a weak PC. It still isn't ready, and some of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is a good PC port of a bad board game. I liked Gloomhaven, but I think this sequel is suffering from a bad case of being overdesigned
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yes game is bugged to hell. my brothers are stuck in a mission where i cant join because the game just immediately crashes. early access for any game is just crap. its a crap excuse to push a crazy unfinished game out for quick profit.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like a few other reviewers, I'm a little baffled by the gripes about UI confusion, or complaints of too many clicks to complete a turn. If you like the board game, or liked Gloomhaven PC or board version, then you will love this. There is a definite learning curve - classes have a certain level where you get the card that makes your build click. If you specialize with these characters you will always do better - a jack of all trades approach leaves you master of none. I played the very early…
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