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Sky Ship Studios · Published by Sky Ship Studios · Official site ↗
Content notice: Be forewarned; Gloom is a card game which features no visible violence or nudity. However the core mechanic of the game is to make your characters as miserable as possible. This means that a large number of cards will feature text describing terrible scenes or events that characters will/have experienced that may be upsetting to some.
Mostly Negative — 35% positive (186 reviews)
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
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!
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3 Sept 2026Lowest: £5.19 · Highest: £5.199 Oct 2026
Indie, Strategy, Casual · 2018 · More £5 - £15 games
Gloom: Digital Edition challenges you to play the villain by sabotaging your family's well-being in this award-winning, casual strategy card game. Compete against friends or AI as you push your family members down stairs and beyond, all leading to a tragic grand finale where everyone dies.
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…
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Low range Dual-Core 2.4 GHz CPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 7 series or ATI Radeon HD 2000
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Recommended
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 8
- Processor: Mid to High Range Dual-Core 2.5GHz CPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 285 or AMD Radeon HD 5830
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Supported Languages
English*
*languages with full audio support
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Discontinuation of Multiplayer
Dear Gloomizens, We wanted to reach out to let everyone know that effective July 10th Gloom: Digital Edition will no longer support online multiplayer. While this was a difficult decision the team felt it the best one to allow us to focus on continuing to support Gloom on new and exciting platforms like the upcoming addition to the Gameboard library. Additionally, based on player feedback and data, the majority of the Gloom: Digital Edition user base enjoyed the game through its single-player experience and nothing with that will change! Again, we’d like to reiterate that while this was a difficult decision it will enable our small indie team to continue to expand Gloom’s reach on additional platforms and enable us to continue focusing efforts on other, future projects as well. Thanks for your continued support - The Sky Ship Studios TeamRead full article on Community Announcements (eric)Patch NotesOfficial
Gloom 1.0.3205 Update
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33752971/8112eaf8c2efcae5eb72804badee7ac94cf55a80.jpg Hello Gloomizens, Change is good! And with the launch of Gloom: Digital Edition on iOS and Android we’re sending an update that will see some big, exciting changes to the game so that it runs similarly on all platforms! We’ve been listening and reading everyone’s feedback and have been working on bug/UI fixes and general updates to the game’s infrastructure. Please read below for all changes in update 2.0 Updated UI (to coincide with mobile versions) Improved opponent AI Fixed multiplayer bugs related to stability As you’ll notice, the biggest change will be a fresh coat of paint to the overall UI. The new UI is now the same across the board, matching up with the upcoming iOS and Android versions. The new UI includes One family on screen Discard, Skip and Exit buttons moved to lower right Timer and active player name moved to top middle of screen These new changes will allow us to seamlessly update and make improvements across all three platforms, while adding some visual improvements requested by the community. We hope you love the new digs. Now go spread some Gloom!!Read full article on Community Announcements (eric)Patch NotesOfficial
Gloom 1.0.3047 update
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/33752971/8112eaf8c2efcae5eb72804badee7ac94cf55a80.jpg Hail and well met! Believe it or not but following Gloom’s release the studio was attacked by a hornet's nest, then everyone fell into mass depression. We've still gotten to read your feedback and have been working to improve the game’s AI and iron a few bugs here and there. You will find the list of changes for this version below! Improvements: Enemy AI has been drastically improved Cyrillic and Chinese characters are now supported Bugfixes: "And the Vacant Vault" now plays correctly "Out with the Old" now plays correctly Fixed a discarding timing issue Fixed a crash that occured while offline but in the main menu The active opponent's family now correctly displays when it's their turn Fixed a bug where the credits did not close correctly Fixed an issue that prevented some players from joining password protected games Fixed a bug that prevented Asmodee.net logins with special characters from being entered Fixed a bug that caused the cursor to disappear Now we will fade away into oblivion and try to find a reason to live...but eh, your support and feedback could almost be one! Thanks again from the bottom of our graves.Read full article on Community Announcements (Asmodee Digital)
