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+
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.
brainpuddle
An excellent addition to the game, especially for the lucky gaming group member who gets to enjoy a new character once you've burned through all the base set. The layout of the scenarios is vastly improved from the core box although some of the new missions are tricky and surprisingly vast/long (wait...this new room has another door at the end of its' hallway???). Naturally you'll love it if you've been rocking the Gloom.
adrianchu9
No more kill all the enemies. Say hello to puzzles and totally unique missions. The best form of gloomhaven