Gloom: Unwelcome Guests

by Atlas

Product Features

• This is an expansion for Gloom - you need that game in order to use the expansion
• Adds depth and complexity
• Allows one more person to play

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.8 x 2.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: 1589780930
• Item model number: AG1253
• Manufacturer recommended age: 12 - 15 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,487 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The expansion adds one player and 55 cards to the game. Here is a description of the expansion from the publisher: 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 in this new set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers, Events, and Untimely Deaths, and a new family - the malodorous Malone mob - including The Broken Arms Hotel as a Residence card to use with the Unhappy Homes expansion. When Boils Malone brought his family overseas to "get away from the heat," he wasn't expecting quite so much rain. Adding an extra level of strategy, new persistent effect icons on cards allow their special effects to continue to be active even if covered by another card. A persistent effect ends only when the attached character is killed. Also inside are five Unwelcome Guest cards. Deal one or more face up to the table's center at the start of the game. Guests "follow" the card types noted on them, no matter where it currently is, a living Guest immediately moves to join the family of the character on which one of its "trigger" cards is played. All its Modifiers are moved with it, and it's considered a member of that family until it moves again. This may delay the game's end if a final play draws a Guest to the near-winner's family.

Product Description

The expansion adds one player and 55 cards to the game. Here is a description of the expansion from the publisher: 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 in this new set together with your copy of Gloom to add morbid new Modifiers, Events, and Untimely Deaths, and a new family - the malodorous Malone mob - including The Broken Arms Hotel as a Residence card to use with the Unhappy Homes expansion. When Boils Malone brought his family overseas to "get away from the heat," he wasn't expecting quite so much rain! Adding an extra level of strategy, new persistent effect icons on cards allow their special effects to continue to be active even if covered by another card. A persistent effect ends only when the attached character is killed. Also inside are five Unwelcome Guest cards. Deal one or more face up to the table's center at the start of the game. Guests "follow" the card types noted on them; no matter where it currently is, a living Guest immediately moves to join the family of the character on which one of its "trigger" cards is played. All its Modifiers are moved with it, and it's considered a member of that family until it moves again. This may delay the game's end if a final play draws a Guest to the near-winner's family!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good expansion to Gloom, February 6, 2009

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Fazle Khan - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Gloom: Unwelcome Guests (Toy)

The expansion adds another layer of complexity to the Gloom card game. Some of the guests are overpowered but overall the expansion is a good addition to a great game.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have expansion, June 9, 2008

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Deven M. Niles "Midian" (Coralville, IA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gloom: Unwelcome Guests (Toy)

For sure this expansion is a great buy - it totally makes the game that much more fun!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gloom rocks, January 21, 2011

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C. Donelson - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Gloom Unwelcome Guests Expansion (Toy)

Gloom is an amazing game. Very good for a intellectual activity with that certain special nerdy girl you may like. Great also for groups of gamers for a nice relaxing party atmosphere card game. It requires a bit of imagination to really appreciate it. If you have a brain and a quirky sense of humor and you like games. Get Gloom!