He hadn’t expected it to become Board Game Geek’s 24th best board game of all time. He hadn’t expected it to receive a 9.3/10 rating on Board Game Geek, putting it above such games as Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (8.7/10) and Kingdom Death: Monster (9/10). He hadn’t expected the game to become a craze. I’ll tell you what it is: it’s rare and expensive.Īfter Childres produced those original 4,904 copies of the game, he went on to produce only 2,200 copies of the game for retailers around the world.
Which is the geekiest sentence I’ve ever written. Gloomhaven is the Mage Knight of Dungeons & Dragons. It’s been described as Dungeons & Dragons in a box, and having spent a couple weekends plowing through the game’s content - and having a history of both 3.5 and 5E under my belt - I agree. The box is 16.2 inches long, 7.5 inches wide, and 11.8 inches tall. Have you ever seen a 20 pound board game? That’s the same weight as an average dining room chair or car tire or pug.
If you leave this article with anything, know this: Gloomhaven ain’t your usual board game. And in the late months of 2016, after more than a year of development, Gloomhaven finally arrived in the hands of those 4,904 backers - and word quickly spread about the game’s size. When the campaign ended 28 days later, 4,904 people signed on to back the game’s creation, resulting in a raised total of $386,104, which launched the game into the stratosphere of unexpected success. The campaign included pledge levels of $64 for a standee version of the game (meaning, you got a version with only cardboard miniatures) and $79 for the standard version (meaning, you got a version with plastic miniatures for the 17 character classes). On September 2, 2015, Childres took to Kickstarter to ask for financial support to create the game, with a goal of raising $70,000.
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