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2017 Ranked #8,573

Gloom In Space

A darkly comic card game has players make their own spacefaring crew miserable before their untimely deaths. The most wretched crew wins, so setbacks and disasters become resources rather than failures.

Card Game Horror Storytelling Take That

Players

2-5

Play time

Not listed

Age

13+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

6.74

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.9/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Description from the publisher: Space is the worst — empty, black, airless, awash in radiation, and dotted with immense clods of flaming plasma that make everything within millions of miles too hot to support life. If your living room were like space, you'd never ever go there.

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Description from the publisher: Space is the worst — empty, black, airless, awash in radiation, and dotted with immense clods of flaming plasma that make everything within millions of miles too hot to support life. If your living room were like space, you'd never ever go there. In Gloom in Space, you make your rag-tag band or star-faring heroes miserable, then kill them. Sci-fi archetypes like the Smuggler, Captain, Doctor, and Dark Lord fight their fathers, meddle with monoliths, get caught in compactors, and wind up getting nuked from orbit. Eventually, enough Untimely Deaths come to pass that the game ends. And then? The most miserable crew wins. Gloom in Space is a standalone game that's also compatible with all existing Gloom core games and expansions.

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Play and group

Players
2–5
Best with
2–5
Play time
60 min
Age
13+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Keith Baker

Artists

2
Michael Cunliffe Nicolas Gluesenkamp

Publishers

1
Atlas Games

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