Oh, I have no idea, I’ve never played Gloomhaven TT at all. But it’s more Gloomhaven: more scenarios, monsters, mercenaries, items. Nice that they are continuing to support the digital version (although I will feel more or less charitable depending on what the price ends up being).
I think it’s just a more streamlined less town focused version. I think you just have the 4 characters with no retiring but it is a nicely focused 20 something mission campaign. It’s known for a more streamlined tutorial for the first few missions too. I’ve not played it but I’ve got it sitting here with the rest of the games I seem to never play…
This concerns the board game, not the digital version. The helper app, creatively titled Gloomhaven Helper, is being yanked from all platforms in about a month by the developer, who is not affiliated with GH’s creator.
Gloomhaven Helper will no longer be available starting May 12, 2022. All distribution of the app will be prohibited, including any modified versions of the app, and the app will be removed from the Apple and Google app stores. Users who previously purchased the app may continue to use it.
His message below that goes on to imply that Isaac Childress (GH dev) is forcing this, but of course that’s just his side of the story. I don’t see anywhere that Isaac has commented.
I own the app, I think it was $5, and I have since traded away Gloomhaven, though I still own Jaws of the Lion. I think the app is great and makes playing much more streamlined.
Ah well. I’ll just make sure I have it downloaded somewhere.
Something’s happened between the two parties. I suspect it’s related to the fact that Esoteric will no longer be making the app for Frosthaven. No idea what’s happened but I guess that whoever develops the app for Frosthaven will also be building one for Gloomhaven…
I’d also like to spend a little time addressing Esoteric Software’s announcement that they won’t be developing a Frosthaven Helper app. While we are saddened by this news, we fully understand and wish them the best.
We recognize that we assured backers during the Kickstarter campaign that there would be a helper app for Frosthaven, and so we have every intention of doing what we can to make that happen. We are starting to talk to other software development companies to see what we can do to help get something similar to the helper app developed. These things take time, though. I can’t guarantee anything will be available by the time you get your copy of the game, but I am confident that a solution will be developed to fill the void.
If not having a helper app is a deal-breaker for you, we understand. As always, you can email [email protected] to request a refund.
They announced the Jaws of the Lion DLC release date as May 17th - so in a month - I should probably start playing the full game!
Edit: Interesting - it’s being integrated into the main campaign, so not sure if you can play it separately like the physical release. Not sure how that bodes for those who recommend it as a streamlined subset…
Damn, I wish it were sooner.
I’ve started playing the digital campaign. After playing the opening mission on easy, I’ve bumped the difficulty down to Friendly for the time being, at least until I get more comfortable with all of it.
The restart round feature folks were talking about before is a godsend, for those times I don’t realize (or just forget) a character is immobilized or realize I couldn’t do what I wanted (most often because I had to move to do the thing I wanted, but forgot that action was on the bottom half of a card).
This second mission felt better. Partly because I had more health to burn, but I think utilizing the Tinkerer more effectively was the bigger part, especially after having to discard 2 at the start because of a road event. I like the Tink, but I never seem to have him in position to do what I want and his movement is lacking. I just bought boots of striding, which should help a bit.
I’ve played 9 or 10 missions, maybe. Closing in on retiring a couple of characters, which would push town Wealth to three. I’m enjoying it, I suppose, but I wouldn’t say this is a world I’ve been drawn into, as yet.
That’s understandable, I guess, since the characters aren’t going to stay with you ask the way through. I know there are lots of secrets and stuff. Is there going to be a point where I can’t wait to see what happens next with the story?
Nope. The writing is fine but in our experience nothing particularly memorable or compelling and because it for long stretches of the campaign lets you tackle any of like 10 different missions we were pretty much unable to keep track of what was even going on or which missions related to which storylines.
Ok, thanks. Good to know I shouldn’t be expecting that.
The Gloomhaven storyline tracker may be of help. It tracks which scenarios are open and which bits of story lead to which scenario.
The pc version will be gifted in EGS.
I started the PC version of this last night on Normal difficulty and got my ass handed to me in the first fight. Clearly I have some learnin’ to do!
It is not an easy game, at least I didn’t find it to be so. No shame in losing the first fight. :)
The first fight is one of the hardest in the game. It’s a weird choice.
Yep, we failed the first fight hard the first time we played. It definitely gets easier as you go. Although plenty of missions are still difficult enough to fail even when your party is stronger.
Learning how to manage your cards is a huge part of the game and it’s very easy on your first try to not budget your burn cards well and end up exhausted.
I hadn’t played this in a while, but with the EGS giveaway, a couple of my friends and I played multiplayer for the first time. One friend and myself on Steam and the other guy on EGS. I just hosted a Guildmaster mission on easy and we fumbled our way through it. I like it better with people than just me playing the characters.
The only issue we had was the EGS guy locked up when the battle started. He had to quit and rejoin and I added him back to the game and everything was fine after that, so I don’t know if that is an issue or a fluke.
That was my problem. I was using all my cool abilities too early and burning cards in the first room, which of course just snowballs the exhaustion mechanic since you don’t get to use those later on before taking additional rests. Now that I get the rest mechanics better, I’ve been surviving much more easily.
Picked this up for free from Epic. Got wrecked twice in the first dungeon. Was about to uninstall when I figured out that you keep loot and XP even if you fail. That’s very different. I think it took me 6 tries during which one of my toons hit level 2, but I finally won.