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Frosthaven + Removable Stickers + Solo Scenarios (Kickstarter)


30m - 120m

1 - 4 Players

Ages 14+
The Campaign/Battle Card Driven mechanic is a relatively recent development in war games that focuses the players' actions on cards they have in their hand. The very basic idea is that performing a single action uses a single card. Games where cards are used to determine the outcome of battles do not use this mechanic.
Campaign / Battle Card Driven
Hand management games are games with cards in them that reward players for playing the cards in certain sequences or groups. The optimal sequence/grouping may vary, depending on board position, cards held and cards played by opponents. Managing your hand means gaining the most value out of available cards under given circumstances. Cards often have multiple uses in the game, further obfuscating an "optimal" sequence.
Hand Management
Play occurs upon a modular board that is composed of multiple pieces, often tiles or cards. In many games, board placement is randomized, leading to different possibilities for strategy and exploration.Some games in this category have multiple boards which are not used simultaneously, preserving table space. Unused boards remain out of play until they are required.
Modular Board
The simultaneous action selection mechanic lets players secretly choose their actions. After they are revealed, the actions resolve following the rule-set of the game.
Simultaneous Action Selection
Variable Player Powers is a mechanic that grants different abilities and/or paths to victory to the players.
Variable Player Powers

Fantasy

Miniatures

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  1. 10 out of 10

    So far, so incredible. No other game makes me so ready to play again immediately; no other game has me lying in bed planning my upgrades and actions. A no-brainer if you enjoyed the original at all.

  2. 9.2 out of 10

    All of the gloomhaven goodies; unlockables, surprises, campaign progress. Enhanced with the magic of *flavour*. Interesting twists in narrative and gameplay, great characterisation in the story snippets, all around just so much more enjoyable to be immersed in the world. After 18+ sessions (30+ scenarios), the upkeep between games is getting more and more burdensome. We've unlocked plenty of buildings, and all of them have different effects that we have to check through between each game. I have the audio Narration, but we've regrettably stopped using it because it's yet another thing slowing the game down. The main missions are brilliant, I love the idea of the town building. I just don't like the amount of time and care that it takes to not forget anything. Also each character really feels completely different. I really enjoy each of their specialisations.

  3. 8 out of 10

    For the most part, we're really enjoying this. For the majority of the whole, it improves on most of the things we struggled with in Gloomhaven—notable exception: Oozes, which still ruin scenarios on a regular basis—but a few of the changes left us scratching our heads. The biggest wins are in the characters, who feel a bit more balanced than Gloomhaven, and their thematics. We've also really enjoyed how unlocking characters is story-based, not retirement based (with the retirement bonus turning to buildings for the Outpost). The setting feels more "alive," and having a stake in our own settlement is way, way more grounding than the choices we had in Gloomhaven. The loot system of using a deck, and crafting, has us more invested in picking up loot than before, as well. Crafting starts off weak and slow and it might be our character choices, but thus far we're not finding crafting particularly worthwhile at all for most equipment slots—that may change once we have character capable of ignoring the "-1" effects. The encounter cards split into season and road/outpost make for a more immersive experience, and while we've only bumped into a couple of scenarios where we've hit a wall (again, Oozes are still broken, and we're trying to come up with a way to houserule them), for the most part, we've made it on our first attempt, and often with that "by the skin of our teeth" feel, which is enjoyable. On the downside, the iconography on the cards is sometimes less intuitive (push and pull, for example), and multiple tiles are so close to each other it's frustrating looking for the right ones (cave "door"?). The time-per-session is also raised by the extra steps of the Outpost phase, which isn't inherently bad, exactly, but does sort of put a tedium tone to things after finishing a scenario. One really sore point is—as we're playing with four players—the incomprehensible limit of two of each craftable item, especially the potions, which means only two of the four of us can have any type of item. We're making them with ingredients we find ourselves. How can we only make two of each? It makes zero sense. Added to this is the frustration of playing a new character after retirement with the slower scale of leveling via Prosperity—the other three characters are level four, but even at Prosperity 3, my retired character means I'm playing a level one character, who routinely gets one-hit-knocked out due to low hit points. Gloomhaven allowed characters to start at a level equal to or lower than the Prosperity level, but Frosthaven slows that down to half the Prosperity (rounded up) which means starting at level 2 won't happen until Prosperity 3... that's a long time coming. Finally, "masteries" are obnoxious. If you've got a player who loves the challenge of trying to earn their masteries, prepare to have a frustrating experience of their character making very sub-optimal choices while they try to earn that extra checkmark doing things that make little-to-no sense. It's like an extra-frustrating Battle Goal, only far more tedious to watch unfold.

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Frosthaven is the story of a small outpost far to the north of the capital city of White Oak, an outpost barely surviving the harsh weather as well as invasions from forces both known and unknown. There, a group of mercenaries at the end of their rope will help bring back this settlement from the edge of destruction. Not only will they have to deal with the harsh elements, but there are other, far more dangerous threats out in the unforgiving cold as well. There are Algox, the bigger, more yeti-like cousins of the Inox, attacking from the mountains; Lurkers flooding in from the northern sea; and rumors of machines that wander the frozen wastes of their own free will. The party of mercenaries must face all of these perils, and perhaps in doing so, make peace with these new races so they can work together against even more sinister forces.

Frosthaven is a standalone adventure from the designer and publisher of Gloomhaven that features sixteen new characters, three new races, more than twenty new enemies, more than one hundred new items, and a new, 100-scenario campaign. Characters and items from Gloomhaven will be usable in Frosthaven, and vice versa.

In addition to having the well-known combat mechanisms of Gloomhaven, Frosthaven will feature much more to do outside of combat, such as numerous mysteries to solve, a seasonal event system to live through, and player control over how this ramshackle village expands, with each new building offering new ways to progress.

Frosthaven has a whole new set of items but there is a mechanic for bringing items over from ‘Gloomhaven’. However, as it is a remote location, these products get imported and are not there as standard. Resources are much more valuable and you have to build items through a crafting system rather than just buy them.

—description from the publisher

Ages

14+
Players

Solo, 2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

30m – 120m
Designer

Isaac Childres
Mechanics

Communication Limits, Cooperative Game, Deck Construction, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Hexagon Grid, Legacy Game, Once-Per-Game Abilities, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Solo / Solitaire Game, Campaign / Battle Card Driven, Grid Movement, Hand Management, Modular Board, Simultaneous Action Selection, Variable Player Powers
Theme

Fighting, Miniatures, Adventure, Exploration, Fantasy
Publisher

Albi Polska, Albi, Cephalofair Games, Delta Vision Publishing, Feuerland Spiele
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