Gloom in Space, a card board game from Atlas Games, takes you into the vast and dangerous depths of space. In this standalone game, which is fully compatible with the original Gloom game and its expansions, your goal is an unusual one – you must make the lives of your crew of space explorers as miserable as possible, and then send them to their inevitable doom. Choose your characters from classic sci-fi archetypes such as the Smuggler, the Captain, the Doctor and the Dark Lord, and put them through incredible trials.
Throughout the game, you will use modifier cards on your characters to torment them with various misfortunes, while at the same time trying to make your opponents' characters happy with annoying success and prosperity. The stories become more and more fun and intricate as you tell the other players exactly how your characters got into their respective situations. Thanks to the unique transparent plastic cards that overlap each other, you will easily track the changing misfortune points of your characters.
The game ends when all of your characters have left this world. The winner is the player who has managed to accumulate the most misfortune for their space crew.
How to play:
- Each player chooses their crew of space explorers;
- Play modifier cards on your characters to make them unhappy, or on your opponents' characters to make them happy;
- Tell funny stories about the situations your characters find themselves in as you stack the transparent cards on top of each other;
- When your characters are unfortunate enough, eliminate them with premature death cards to lock in their points;
- The game ends when all of a player's characters die, and the winner is the one with the unluckiest crew.
The kit contains:
- 110 transparent playing cards;
- Rules of the game.
Information from the publisher:
In space, what's even the point of screaming? Gloom in Space is a stand-alone game in the Gloom game line! Make your rag-tag band miserable... and then kill them. Fight your father, meddle with a monolith, and be troubled by tribbles while looking forward to the sure (and mercifully quick!) death of being nuked from orbit!
Space is the worst — empty, black, airless, awash in radiation, and dotted with immense clods of flaming plasma that make everything within millions of miles too hot to support life. If your living room were like space, you'd never ever go there.
