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Pros

Players have much growth and character building, from gaining additional coin and experience and health when leveling up. But it's not for the beginner gamer - the mechanics are unique, and the rules are complex. This is a game that you can actually p... Read More

The 20 lbs box comes with a ton of stuff. Recommend buying an organizer right off the bat.

The good thing is that it's correctable with no lasting damage.

Cons

There appears to be a misprint or a weird cut with one tile page. The cardboard is low quality and many of the cardboard items have started to separate from one side. All shipping stickers were stuck and taped to the game box.

Poor quality, missing parts, and slow (if it's even happening) turn around on replacements absolutely cripples the experience. Returned and cancelling my plans to buy the other related games. Not worth the $100+ asking price. Other dungeon crawlers th... Read More

The perverse anti-dice thing is unbelievable. I gather that the designer really dislikes the randomness of dice, but all he’s done is replace it with therandomness of endless decks of cards.

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Quality

The miniatures and cards are high quality, well worth the higher price tag.

I do recommend purchasing jaws of the lion first due to the introduction to the gloomhaven universe.

The setting is interesting and the writing quality is well above standard board game narrative cheese.

There are a couple issues (more like warnings, really) with the game:** here, there be potential spoilers **- the interactions ... Read More

Shipping

Very fast shipping and an amazing seller.

This is not a review for the game as much as the shipping process behind amazon.

With all the shipping delays happening right now, it's not terribly surprising.

Packaging/appearance

I’ll return to give a review of the game later, but for now the initial purchase had a packaging let down: both the front and b... Read More

The tape on the bottom was still present, so the contents weren't compromised, but it appears that staff attempted to fix this ... Read More

Competitiveness

I will say that it was easier to start with gloomhaven - jatl, and i recommend to start there.

It was fun, required strategizing and it created some competition in the party as well (like who will get to loot the coins first!

A brick and mortar store wouldn't have let this item off the shelf, and would've sold it with a discount.

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This product had a total of 5,197 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 3 2022.