Gloomhaven is an adventurous dungeon crawler game with legacy mechanics - together, players with their own heroes go through a series of missions, and between missions, the heroes grow and become better, but they also reach their end and are replaced by new heroes that have appeared in the meantime. In Gloomhaven, you change and alter the game by placing stickers on the game board and other parts of the game when changes and improvements occur, but you also 'unlock' new elements in the game when you reach different goals in the game, allowing you to open the sealed boxes that reveal new rules, stories, and elements (including new characters).
Gloomhaven is a massive and extensive fantasy game where all the games are part of a large and long-lasting story, and where new elements are revealed continuously. There are many hours of gameplay before you have gone through all the material and revealed all the secrets of the box.
Each turn, a player chooses two cards from their hand that they want to play. The number on the top card determines their initiative for that round. Each card has a top and a bottom ability. When it is a player's turn, determined by the initiative order, they decide whether to use the top or bottom ability on the top or bottom card or vice versa. Players must be careful because over time they will permanently lose cards from their hand. If they take too long to clear a dungeon, they may end up exhausted or forced to retreat.
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