Unhappy Homes (Gloom)

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Product Feature

• This is an expansion for Gloom - you need that game in order to use the expansion
• Adds depth and complexity
• Lots of replay value

Product Description

In the Gloom card game, you make your eccentric family of misfits suffer the greatest tragedies possible before helping them pass on to the well-deserved respite of death. Just mix the 55 transparent cards included in this set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers, Events, and Untimely Deaths, and a new family -- the artistes of Le Canard Noir, whose creative endeavors always end in disaster.

When art lets you down, the Black Duck is there for you. This dingy cafe is home to a motley assortment of washed-up bohemians. Here the tormented painter Rosseau buys drinks for neurotic models and destitute poets, while a troubled actress and sickly courtesan compare notes across the way.

Also included are five Residences with a light blue background behind their central illustration. These are each placed next to their related family at the start of the game. New cards called Mysteries, which have a dark blue effects bar at the bottom, are also shuffled into the deck before play. A Mystery is the only card that can be placed on a Residence (and only a Residence), and can be placed on any Residence as either of your two plays. It gives that Residence's player a special effect and Pathos points that count toward his final Family Value. A Mystery remains even if the requirements for playing it are lost. You may discard a Mystery from your hand as a free play.

Adds 1 player, ages 8 and up.

Unhappy Homes (Gloom) Review

Gloom is fantastic, but this expansion is only so-so. The idea of residences is interesting, but in rules terms, they're simply family members who can't die, which makes them a lot less dynamic than the other cards. The mystery cards that you are supposed to play on them often require three icons and a laundry list of other conditions in order to get them into play, so that we often found them impossible to place. Nine times out of ten, we simply discarded mystery cards to get cards that were more useful and easier to place. The benefits mysteries offered were often out of proportion to the difficulty in placing them. Many have benefits that are all but useless or require that you fulfill another laundry list of conditions to take advantage of. As a result, we found residences often had almost no effect on play.

Still, residences and mysteries are the smallest part of the expansion. The rest of the cards are new modifiers, events, and untimely deaths that add welcome variety to the game. The expansion is well worth it, but not because of the residence mechanic.

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