Gloom: Digital Edition
Released Oct 2018
The game of inauspicious incidents and grave consequences. In this award winning card game, make your family as miserable as possible while making your rival's family as happy as you can! Push your family members down the stairs, make them be stabbed or eaten by bears before the grand finale: spoiler alert, everybody dies!
34% positive · 186 reviews
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All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to buy
Steam $6.99
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Evaluation
Gloom: Digital Edition launched on October 31, 2018 alongside its only DLC, Unhappy Homes. The game received a bug fix patch in March 2019 and a feature update in July 2020 that aligned the Steam version's UI with newly launched iOS and Android versions. On July 26, 2021, the developer posted a direct statement confirming that online multiplayer had been discontinued as of July 10, 2021. In that same post, the developer explained that the decision was made to free up resources for other platforms and "future projects" — language that points away from Steam-specific development rather than toward it. No further updates, patches, or announcements have been made since that July 2021 post. The single DLC that was released shipped on the same day as the game itself, and there are no unreleased DLC entries. With the last developer communication on July 26, 2021, no announced future content, and an explicit winding-down of a major feature, the game's development on Steam is effectively complete.
Evidence
Developer announced the discontinuation of online multiplayer effective July 10, 2021, citing a desire to focus resources on other platforms and future projects. This is the last official communication from the studio on Steam.
Feature patch aligning Steam UI with newly launched iOS and Android versions; improved AI and multiplayer bug fixes.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Sky Ship Studios
Achievements
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Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
What do you want out of life? To be happy? Well that's just boring!
Do you think good things are better than bad things? You’re wrong again!
In Gloom, the more miserable you are the better things are going for you, and the very worst thing you can do for your friends is to bring them joy.
Each player controls the fate of an eccentric family of misfits. Your goal is sad, but simple: make your family suffer the greatest tragedies possible before allowing them to pass on to the well-deserved respite of death.
Ask penguins to poison them, make them starve in a storm or get written out of the will… The more miserable they are, the better!
That’s not all, if you want to win, you’ll have to make your rival’s family as happy and annoyingly alive as you can: delighted by ducklings, having picnics in the park, finding love at the lake… These are some of the worst things that could happen to them!
When the last character in any family dies, the game ends. The player with the lowest Family Value wins the game!
Who will be devoured by weasels and who will be wondrously well wed? Find out in Gloom…
Do you think good things are better than bad things? You’re wrong again!
In Gloom, the more miserable you are the better things are going for you, and the very worst thing you can do for your friends is to bring them joy.
Each player controls the fate of an eccentric family of misfits. Your goal is sad, but simple: make your family suffer the greatest tragedies possible before allowing them to pass on to the well-deserved respite of death.
Ask penguins to poison them, make them starve in a storm or get written out of the will… The more miserable they are, the better!
That’s not all, if you want to win, you’ll have to make your rival’s family as happy and annoyingly alive as you can: delighted by ducklings, having picnics in the park, finding love at the lake… These are some of the worst things that could happen to them!
HOW TO MAKE EVERYONE SUFFER?
From 1 to 4 players. Each player gets two moves per turn.- Play modifier cards on top of character cards, describing the horrible mishaps you inflict on your own characters to lower their Self-Worth scores, while trying to cheer up your opponents’ characters with happy occasions that pile on positive points.
- Event cards will give you other chances to alter fates: draw cards on stormy nights, give a character a second chance in life or mess with another one by discarding its top modifier card… What a twist of fate!
- Finally, kill your family or your rival’s family by using the Untimely Death cards! Baked into a pie, eaten by bears or just dying old and alone… There are so many ways to die.
When the last character in any family dies, the game ends. The player with the lowest Family Value wins the game!
Who will be devoured by weasels and who will be wondrously well wed? Find out in Gloom…
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Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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