Frosthaven

This is absolutely the best way to play Frosthaven. I've been in the board game campaign for a couple years now, and while we're having a good time, there's just so much to track compared to Gloomhaven (which was already a fair amount). Sure, various apps certainly help with the board game during scenarios, but there's not much when it comes to all the in-between scenario activities. Having useful, pretty UI for that alone puts the digital version over the physical one. I'm curious to see how the digital game translates some of the more complicated aspects like the puzzle book, but I'm sure it will make more sense here than in the physical version. If there was a way for us to create a custom digital game seed with everything we've unlocked and completed in the physical game to transfer over I would do it in a second.

this is a good PC port of a bad board game. I liked Gloomhaven, but I think this sequel is suffering from a bad case of being overdesigned

Faithful port of the boardgame. Some minor changes, that mostly make sense (like getting rid of the puzzles).

Without house rules and the benefits of playing the real tabletop version, this game is just miserable to play. Some scenarios are cleverly designed, but a lot of them you just question how you're even supposed to complete with certain classes. A complaint that is exclusive to digital: the art style is really a miss. Gloomhaven digital has the same problem, the art style they chose for this series is baffling, compared to the art style of the original tabletop game. It looks too cartoonish and bright, and a lot of designs look like nothing like their original counterparts. Most notable ones from FH: Drifter - he looks like a pathetic koala man and is not intimidating at all Snowdancer - way too humanoid, looks closer to an Inox than an Algox Geminate - unnecessary redesign to make it look worse Boneshaper - her head is fine, but everything else just looks worse and not intimidating Crashing Tide - what did they do to its face? Clawcrusher - these are supposed to be the largest non-boss Lurkers in the game, yet they somehow just made them smaller than the other ones and made them green(?) Fire Demon - another unnecessary redesign, in fact, I thought the GH digital design looked fine and more faithful I could go on and on about the redesigns, but you get my point. Not touching up on the online related stuff, as plenty of others have already addressed it, and I only play this solo anyway. If possible, stick to playing the board game, either IRL or through tabletop simulator if you want to play it online.

Absolutely terrible difficulty and balance design. Some scenarios that are labeled as “medium difficulty” are literally impossible to beat even on Normal unless you have the perfect setup and a huge amount of luck. (For example, Jagged Shoals.) It honestly feels like the developers have never played their own game. On top of that, half of the levels seem to be designed specifically to prevent any kind of tactical maneuvering. Playing a summoner? Congratulations — the corridors will be exactly 2 hexes wide, so you’ll never be able to get your skeletons to their targets. And if you somehow do, don’t worry — they’ll die from the slightest hit anyway. Playing a ranged build? Congratulations — we’ll teleport you into a room with 15 enemies that immediately surround you, leaving you literally nowhere to go. Want to use an AoE attack as Banner Spear? Great! Just make sure you end up behind the enemy, with six archers standing behind the melee enemies — they’ll kill you in half a turn. The characters quests are just insane RNG. You have to plan every single move around them and pray that everything goes perfectly. So in the end, you either grind the same easy, familiar scenarios over and over until your perks and gear are good enough, or you play on the lowest difficulty — which, instead of reducing the number of enemies or their damage, simply disables the exhaustion mechanic (which wasn’t really much of a problem in the first place).

The board game was so exhausting to manage that my crew figured that the creators must have just wanted to make a video game but were somehow constrained to the physical format, so they made a board game instead. Playing the digital version, it becomes clear that the bugs weren't a fluke, and that the creators just have no attention to detail.

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The colors are amazing. This gives a better understanding of the rules and mechanics.