Gloomhaven: Forgotten Circles
Expansion of: GloomhavenGloomhaven: Forgotten Circles, the first expansion for Gloomhaven, features twenty new scenarios that take place after the events of the original Gloomhaven campaign and involve one new character class — the Aesther Diviner — and her attempts to prevent an approaching calamity.
The expansion also features seven new monster types (including three new bosses) and fourteen new items.
60m - 120m
1 - 4 Players
Ages 12+
Beebsman
Obviously a great game because it’s still Gloomhaven which is the greatest. However, the more puzzle filled scenarios which may take a few tries to understand, coupled with the constant flipping to other pages to see what’s in other rooms makes the scenarios extremely sluggish and tedious. What made gloomhaven great was the fast paced flow of the scenario while still offering a bunch of interesting decisions and combat tension. This still offers the same decisions but in a dragging puzzle that has to come to frequent halts. We will not be finishing this campaign but rather stopping to play more gloomhaven side scenarios and jaws of the lion until frosthaven comes out.
afriestman
I'm ambivalent about Gloomhaven, it's fine but the rest of the table enjoys it so I can find my own fun amidst it all. But this expansions has been miserable to play through. The cross referencing and staggered setup makes the game slow down constantly, there's tons of mid-game translation that's important in the moment and slows everything down while one person works on it, the scenarios are all needlessly overwrought and fiddly without any actual complexity to them. I hate it so much. It's like they took ever scenario that got cut from the main game for being unfun and sold them as a pack. Special mention to scenario 106, for a terrible riddle with no clear answer that you have to translate in parts during different turns. I will never buy any game from the dude that wrote that one ever, it's that bad.
AstroKong
It adds unnecessarily complexity by forcing players to jump through a series of pages as each scenario unfolds. In addition, version one has a very large errata to both cards and the scenario book.