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Gloomhaven
Developer Flaming Fowl Studios, Saber Interactive
Gloomhaven is a turn-based strategy role-playing video game, developed by Flaming Fowl Studios and published by Asmodee Digital. It is an adaptation of the tabletop game by the same name. Following two years of early access, Gloomhaven was released for Windows on October 20, 2021 and macOS on November 25, 2021. The game was ported to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
446 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
51
Mixed
138 positive · 135 negative
95% range 45–56%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 138 | 135 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 44 | 10 | 70 |
| Lemmy * | 7 | 0 | 21 |
| Mastodon * | 7 | 1 | 13 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
9,706 of 11,956 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
50% recommend · 123 yes, 121 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 244 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (13,242 of 16,175 positive).
Players praise the deep tactical gameplay and faithful adaptation of the board game. [1][2][3] Many reviewers report game-breaking bugs, especially in multiplayer, and abandoned support. [4][5][6] Some players find the learning curve steep and the experience clunky. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [4]
Unplayable. Saw other reviewers comment how co-op is broken. Thought I would be an exception. NOPE. I have tried every suggested fix from every reddit thread to forum, and none work. The game is broken. Issue has been told to the devs by numerous people, but the devs DGAF. Don't waste your money on this broken trash - the devs are scummy.
- [7]
Gloomhaven clearly has a lot of depth, and I can understand why people who enjoy complex tactical games love it. Unfortunately, the learning curve completely killed the experience for me. I spent around 8 hours in the game, but a large portion of that time was spent working through tutorials, learning the rules, understanding the cards, and trying to figure out how the systems interact. Even after giving it a …
- [1]
A very hesitant thumbs up. Gameplay this good deserved much more love from the devs. [+] Deep inside, Gloomhaven is a deep, interesting and fun game that is especially enjoyable when not in a rush, surrounded by good friends. [-] Flaming Fowl and Saber have been cutting corners so much so that made Gloomhaven into a ball. Gloomhaven is a serious contender for the silver medal in the worst user experience olympics …
- [2]
This game is a very good digital adaptation of the board game, which was the number #1 rated board game for quite a while and for good reason. If I had to summarize the gameplay, it's a story-light dungeon crawler tactical RPG with a big focus on player-agency. With 21 characters in total each being completely different in terms of gameplay, branching storylines, and co-op, you get a whole lot of game for its price. …
- [3]
Bonkers in all the best ways possible When you see a board-game adaptation on Steam, you probably imagine something like a digitized Catan , Carcassonne, or Wingspan (and god forbid you’re thinking about Monopoly). There’s nothing wrong with those games - most of them are great (except [bMonopoly[/b, of course; there’s plenty wrong there). But Gloomhaven is nothing like those. It’s in a world of its own, and it’s …
Summarised from 34 of the 384 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 10, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked Gloomhaven talk about deep, strategic gameplay with low RNG; those who didn't talk about multiplayer is broken with desyncs and crashes. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Gloomhaven was released to mostly positive reviews. Reviewers praised the game's adaptation of the original source material and noted the game's difficulty. PC Gamer praised the game's depth and an engaging campaign, but criticized the lack of quality of life features and noted occasional performance issues. Rock Paper Shotgun called the game a "loving and skillful adaptation" of the board game. TheGamer praised Gloomhaven's visuals, saying, "level of detail is astonishing". Polygon said the game retained "the essential assets" of the board game and it had been "masterfully translated to the PC", calling it "one of the most satisfying turn-based dungeon crawlers of 2021". Gloomhaven…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 446 · most liked firstBoardgame Bluesky: Looking for bg recs! Zooey and I have been on a board game kick. We have loved narrative-heavy games that really immerse you... Gloomhaven, ISS Vanguard, Eldritch Horror... What are some other fun games, good for 2, with really engrossing narrative?
neutral · AI labelView post →Unplayable. Saw other reviewers comment how co-op is broken. Thought I would be an exception. NOPE. I have tried every suggested fix from every reddit thread to forum, and none work. The game is broken. Issue has been told to the devs by numerous people, but the devs DGAF. Don't waste your money on this broken trash - the devs are scummy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Steam Deck / Gaming News #9. This week’s interesting bits and pieces in Steam Deck / Linux and general gaming that I have found is a *lighter* version. Just a small handful of things I found and wanted to share here. So don't judge me too harshly! As is now tradition (signed in blood) each time I swear this will become a weekly event, it is only a handful of days between it and the next! So as always, this is just the bits and pieces of news I’ve spotted that made me smile, or made me…
neutral · AI labelView post →new monthly reward on my patreon, i am doing monthly board game reviews, the first one i've chosen is Gloomhaven, i just finished an over year long campaign, here are my thoughts, if you're interested, my patreon is $5 a month www.patreon.com/ProZD/posts/...
positive · AI labelView post →Steam Deck / Gaming News #9. This week’s interesting bits and pieces in Steam Deck / Linux and general gaming that I have found is a *lighter* version. Just a small handful of things I found and wanted to share here. So don't judge me too harshly! As is now tradition (signed in blood) each time I swear this will become a weekly event, it is only a handful of days between it and the next! So as always, this is just the bits and pieces of news I’ve spotted that made me smile, or made me…
neutral · AI labelView post →It ook two weeks, but Trump's import taxes are being recognized as an existential danger to gaming. Yesterday, Cephalofair announced that they had $1.2M in a completed print run of a game that they cannot bring into the United States. They haven't said, but I'm guessing that's Gloomhaven 2e.
neutral · AI labelView post →Good game... when it works. Save files will break. There is no fix and seemingly no support for this older product. Don't bother.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So many of my peers make weird claims like “(X medium weight strategy game) is a total gateway. I taught it to non-gamers and they totally got it.” Homie you teach games professionally. You could teach Gloomhaven to a 10-year old.
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally made the jump to Linux Mint yesterday on my gaming tower. ProtonDB and Steam deck support finally pulled me over the edge while Office 365 and Windows apparent path forward was pushing me to leave. Sea of Stars, Gloomhaven, and Peak installed, ran, and played with zero extra configuration. So I threw something more intense at it. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 runs like a champ, zero configuration. Doom the Dark Ages as well. Now to throw some curveballs. I'm playing through Subnautica…
positive · AI labelView post →ICYMI: My tactical dungeon-crawler card game inspired by Arkham Horror & Gloomhaven has a prototype build downloadable for free at foldedfox.itch.io/delvetoodeep... There's about 90 mins of gameplay there, and I'd love to know what people think @itch.io #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't get this game. At one point is quite good, but they seem to have added a bunch of game-breaking bugs in their last couple of patches. And since the game isn't being supported they will never fix them now. A real shame. Once upon a time this game was a gem.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Endless desync issues since launch. Came back to try multiplayer again 3 years later. Still can't play reliably.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Multiplayer is broken and developers are not continuing work on the project. It was always a little buggy, but now multiplayer (especially if you have a friend on Epic) is no longer functional because of bugs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Re: When I see Gloomhaven 2E is the game for tonight.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tallyman finished, not sure what to tackle next. should prolly finish the last Gloomhaven starter for the game next weekend.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m a salaried software developer. My first job was 8-5 with a lunch break that we had to take. I asked if I could take it at the start or the end of the day and was told, “No.” So my coworkers and I started playing board games 3-4 times a week during our lunch break in one of the offices. Mainly legacy games like Gloomhaven and Pandemic Legacy. The VP loved showing off the board game room to the interviewees to show that we like to have fun there. I do miss that job sometimes because it was…
neutral · AI labelView post →Gloomhaven clearly has a lot of depth, and I can understand why people who enjoy complex tactical games love it. Unfortunately, the learning curve completely killed the experience for me. I spent around 8 hours in the game, but a large portion of that time was spent working through tutorials, learning the rules, understanding the cards, and trying to figure out how the systems interact. Even after giving it a genuine effort, I never reached the point where playing felt fun. My biggest issue…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If I’d written this review after 300 hours of play instead of 482, I would have recommended it. The board game is great, and here it’s more dynamic, accompanied by music, sound effects, and narration, with the AI handling the opponents’ moves. It’s definitely easier to play than the board game. Faster, on the other hand… that’s only in theory. In practice, the game has recently become extremely slow. The speed fluctuates constantly, ranging from “too slow” to “we have to quit—this isn’t working…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's really funny that this keeps happening (it happened w/ the Gloomhaven video game too)
neutral · AI labelView post →I really wanted to love Gloomhaven. And sometimes I genuinely did. The world is interesting, the characters are fun to develop, and the card-based combat has some great ideas. When everything comes together, the game can be very satisfying. Unfortunately, those moments are buried under an exhausting amount of frustration. My problem isn’t that Gloomhaven is difficult. I enjoy challenging tactical games. It’s that the game constantly seems determined to make every encounter as punishing and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Note: This review is for multiplayer only. I have only played multiplayer, and all my issues with the game are multiplayer related. I'm making this review as of 42 hours of gameplay. I have been consistently disappointed with gamebreaking bugs in the game. My first encounter with two friends we had a bug that prevented us from playing the round. The bread and butter card of one class breaks the game in multiplayer. Later there was a bug preventing movement, we found out that tabbing in and out…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hi #TurnBasedThursday! I'm making a tactical dungeon crawler / deckbuilder inspired by Gloomhaven & Arkham Horror: The Card Game I've released a prototype on @itch.io with about 90 minutes of gameplay; free to download & I'd love to hear what you think! foldedfox.itch.io/delvetoodeep... #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →[Help] Steam Deck settings for dummies. Hey folks, long time first time. I'm interested in getting some recommendations for default settings for my OLED Steam Deck which I mainly use hooked up to my 55" TV in my living room. Main questions: 1) what should I use for default settings on the Steam Deck for this setup? 2) what game specific settings should I make for games, and do I make those in Steam for each game (Game library page - properties - game resolution: default/native/specific) or…
neutral · AI labelView post →Hi @terrarandoma.bsky.social - thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday this week I'm prototyping a tactical dungeon crawler that combines the cardplay and skill tests from Arkham Horror: The Card Game with the hex-based dungeon crawling of Gloomhaven #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →Played through the board game and loved it. Thought this would be a good way to scratch the itch and manage things solo. Frustrating controls, bad camera, and just a clunky game. Too much time on art assets and animations, and not enough time on the user the experience. Unless you simply need to play a digital version of the board game, move along. There's hundreds of better dungeon crawlers out there. Even something from 25+ years ago has better controls and camera than this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And also: Cephalofair Games is suspending sales in the US, with $1,200,000 worth of games stranded in China (GLOOMHAVEN 2E).
neutral · AI labelView post →A very hesitant thumbs up. Gameplay this good deserved much more love from the devs. [+] Deep inside, Gloomhaven is a deep, interesting and fun game that is especially enjoyable when not in a rush, surrounded by good friends. [-] Flaming Fowl and Saber have been cutting corners so much so that made Gloomhaven into a ball. Gloomhaven is a serious contender for the silver medal in the worst user experience olympics (the gold medal rests confidently with Hunt: Showdown's main menu). What could…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More stolen vibe-coded games I’ve discovered this morning on the “in-development” section of their website I’ll need more help figuring out what each of these games are. I see Terraforming Mars, Azul, Gloomhaven @cephalofairgames.bsky.social, and Pandemic as obvious ones.
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite review was the one for Gloomhaven, a **fantasy** game. >Out-of-place diversity in a 'medieval' setting. The Scoundrel class is a WOC. Multiple other units are POC with no explanation as to how such diversity exists. ...........From my understanding "Game has monsters no need explain. PoC? HOLY SHIT HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!? IMMERSIVE TOTALLY RUINED" Or Dredge, the fishing game that takes place in a world that is totally fictional and literal sea monsters. >Contains overtly pro-DEI…
neutral · AI labelView post →Journeys in Middle Earth is like a LOTR Gloomhaven- you play a character over multiple sessions like a RPG, but it's a board game. It has an associated app that is used to give you the scenarios for each session. It's also cooperative, so you play together against the game. It's pretty good!
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly, game seems fun, but is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ unplayable. First round in with a friend I encountered the loading bug. Whatever, restarted game. Find out game is super difficult. That's fine, learning curves can be fun. We fail first attempt, run it back. Loading error again but still restart game and load back in to get past it. Now we encounter a bug where our characters can't move. In a game that is super difficult and will need multiple attempts to learn, bugs that slow you down turn the learning…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In its current state, it's nearly impossible to finish only one scenario in co-op without disconnects, crashes or desyncs. Otherwise it is a decent game for a solo gamer, I guess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has been abandoned. Bugs and issues are ignored.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After they updated the game to be compatible with MacOS a bug was introduced that made multiplayer semi-unplayable. Specifically when loading scenarios non-host players *sometimes* get stuck in the loading screen permanently and a full restart is required of the game. Subsequent patches were aimed at fixing this but the issue remains and online sources claiming to have identified the issue do not fix it. I love the game but the bug makes it a poor choice for multiplayer.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After my morning writing, had a gaming afternoon. Games included: GLOOMHAVEN: BUTTONS & BUGS boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39... - A LOT of game in a tiny box; I included a pen in the photo to give you an idea of size comparison. Also: DEMEO VR with a friend & ASSASSIN'S CREED NEXUS VR (Quest 3)
positive · AI labelView post →GLOOMHAVEN is one of the greatest tabletop adventure games ever made. THIS abomination is an incredibly sluggish, poorly optimized mess of confusing changes to many scenarios. Enemies behave in often respond in nonsensical ways, rules are often bent in strange ways, and every stage with an interesting mechanic that requires active player input is replaced with extremely unfun automated scenario effects. Combine that with incredibly long repeated generic animations, absolutely terrible netcode,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a puzzle, not a game. The tutorial is not sufficient. You can't access the manual during play - only from a sub menu from the main menu - with no easy hint on how to find it either, the GM is a stingy arse, you can't loot the room to your heart's content, and this is on the suggested 1 step less than normal difficulty. Hey, game designers, stop being hardasses just because there are a few "It's too easy!" moaners. Jeeze! I have not played the boardgame, so I have no comparison. It is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the guys in the board game group chat was going to go sailing tomorrow but the wind looks spotty. So he’s down for Gloomhaven. This has been your board game group chat update
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is infested with various EOS(Epic Online Services)-related files. The game can't even reach the main menu without at least the following files being present: com.Epic.OnlineServices.dll com.playeveryware.eos.dll com.playeveryware.eos.core.dll EOSSDK-Win64-Shipping.dll and EOS folder. So, if we want to play even just offline singleplayer, we are required to accept those files running. This is actually very rare behaviour as most games let you remove them, and those games will…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let me start by saying that Gloomhaven is an absolutely fantastic game. You should play it... but by buying the actual board game, or via Tabletop Simulator. This is the worst version of Gloomhaven ever released. Constant bugs, crashes, freezes, and softlocks make it nigh-unplayable in multiplayer, and it's only designed to be played in multiplayer. Corporate chaos behind the scenes resulted in shifting developers, radical rebuilds of the codebase, and the introduction of thousands of new…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Couple board game minis for a friend #Minipainting #Nerdlings #Miniatures #Gloomhaven #runebound
neutral · AI labelView post →Dear Reader, when I say Gloomhaven 2e is a GREAT game. I mean here is live footage of me any day I wake with this game on my calendar:
positive · AI labelView post →Super Duper TABLETOP Games background Music Playlist Compendium. Try with a Gloomhaven session! Here’s all playlists I collected, from different users across Spotify and Apple Music. All genres covered, from horror to fantasy. Enjoy! **PLAYLISTERBR** - [Follow on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/user/s3kg0w50k3i9u64qq6z6h8d96) Sci-Fi Atmospheric: [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/user/s3kg0w50k3i9u64qq6z6h8d96/playlist/4mgWF2xaqKcI97uF1TTvya) | [Apple…
neutral · AI labelView post →Imperial Assault co-creator's co-op Mandalorian game looks a bit like Star Wars: Gloomhaven, out this summer. > The designer behind Star Wars board games Imperial Assault and Rebellion is returning to the galaxy far, far away with a new co-op game based on spin-off series The Mandalorian. > > The Mandalorian: Adventures marks the first time since 2019’s open-galaxy exploration game Star Wars: Outer Rim that Corey Konieczka has worked in the enduring sci-fi universe, having departed publisher…
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is a very good digital adaptation of the board game, which was the number #1 rated board game for quite a while and for good reason. If I had to summarize the gameplay, it's a story-light dungeon crawler tactical RPG with a big focus on player-agency. With 21 characters in total each being completely different in terms of gameplay, branching storylines, and co-op, you get a whole lot of game for its price. Pros: - Unprecedented amounts of player-agency with low-RNG. If the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Me and my buddies played the board game practically every weekend for hours. We did not get to finish the campaign due to a member emigrating to Canada from England. But we all bought this, either through Steam or Xbox, and we have been having a great time for a couple of years on this! Also helps with those 'grey area' rules from the board game. If you're into board games but struggle to attend in person sessions. I HIGHLY rate recommend this!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing some Gloomhaven Jaws of the Lion game to relax this afternoon. A lot of fun. A cooperative tacticle RPG minis game that I have had for a bunch of years and not gotten to the table. Since it is cooperative and the monsters actions are defined by the game and scenarios, it plays solo well.
positive · AI labelView post →I won’t personally be at #GenCon but I’ll be at Cephalofair’s booth in spirit through the projects I’ve been working on this past year. Stop by to take a peek at a new Buttons & Bugs expansion, Gloomhaven RPG (currently in production!), and maybe even a new upcoming game announcement.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't like DnD (shocker), I like following structured rules, play, and let the events of a game tell me a story. I like how to make solo play simple enough where setup isn't cumbersome (Gloomhaven) and rich enough for you to want to spend time playing it over a video game.
positive · AI labelView post →very buggy. often stuck in a player turn in multiplayer and unable to continue. for example after selecting an item to use and backing out it just gets stuck and you cannot go forward or back and you cannot rejoin multiplayer in the middle of a quest. Difficulty issues with some quests (windswept highlands for example) are unbeatable on the easiest difficulty with the most assist options on for the average player. Setting up the coolest cards, having the enemies in perfect position, burning a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First game night at our house in foreeeever. Just two games away from finally finishing Gloomhaven.
neutral · AI labelView post →The game itself is quite fun and challenging. However the amount of game crashes, esp in Co-op play are really annoying. I dont want to know how many hours we lost due to the crashes
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am having difficulties to get motivated to continue playing Gloomhaven after 20 h. The game is not bad, it just feels repetitive. The quests / scenarios are very simple and repetitive, the Enemy variations are mainly simple stat differences, and my own characters develop too slowly to make me feel the change in my play style. I keep repeating the exact same tactics with the exact same cards again and again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Multiplayer completely broken. Game abandoned for new project which also has issues with multiplayer! Waste of time and energy.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#Boardgames #Gloomhaven I dislike Gloomhaven, it was billed to me as a dungeon crawler, but it was a puzzle game. You may disagree, but if I need to take a nap to use my sword again or to use my shield then it's not a dungeon crawler. I like killing stuff and finding loot not optimal card usage.
negative · AI labelView post →All set up for tonight! Live at 18:00 #twitch #streaming #boardgames #gloomhaven
neutral · AI labelView post →Meet the project manager hauling the Gloomhaven RPG across the finish line
neutral · AI labelView post →Folks looking for a digital board game deal - Humble Bundle right now includes a bunch of top tier board game apps on Steam including Splendor, Gloomhaven, Carcassonne, Terraforming Mars and a bunch more. www.humblebundle.com/games/play-p...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bonkers in all the best ways possible When you see a board-game adaptation on Steam, you probably imagine something like a digitized Catan , Carcassonne, or Wingspan (and god forbid you’re thinking about Monopoly). There’s nothing wrong with those games - most of them are great (except [bMonopoly[/b, of course; there’s plenty wrong there). But Gloomhaven is nothing like those. It’s in a world of its own, and it’s completely bonkers in all the best ways possible. Gloomhaven is a turn-based…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just played my first scenario of Gloomhaven Buttons & Bugs. Really enjoyed the depth of the game and simplicity of gameplay. Will likely hit the second scenario this afternoon or later this week. #boardgames #boardgamesky #sologaming
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