Gloomhaven
It's from 2017, when you were 11.
- Maker
- Cephalofair Games
- Type
- Board game (campaign)
- Debuted
- 2017
- Note
- A 20-pound box with a 95-scenario campaign
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About
As of 2026, it's 9 years old.
Gloomhaven crashed onto the hobby in 2017 as a sprawling, legacy-style dungeon-crawl campaign so massive that the box weighs around 20 pounds and the game spans nearly a hundred interlocking scenarios. It rocketed to the top of the board-gaming charts and stayed there, an unlikely smash for a game that asks for a months-long commitment.
Funded by a wildly successful Kickstarter, it represents the peak of the modern 'big box' campaign game — a tactical RPG-in-a-box where your choices permanently alter the world and your characters retire as the story unfolds. It is not a casual game-night pick; it's a hobby unto itself.
Enormous, ambitious, and campaign-driven, Gloomhaven is the 20-pound phenomenon that proved gamers would happily commit a year to a single board game.
