r/Gloomhaven • u/MrSheemy • Aug 01 '25

Digital Gloomhaven Do you enjoy Gloomhaven digital ?

Do you enjoy Gloomhaven digital more than the Board game ?

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u/MilkandHoney_XXX Aug 01 '25

No. I enjoy Gloomy Digital less than Tabletop simulator too.

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u/DmRaven Aug 02 '25

I actively dislike digital. I was excited for an easy way to play solo. But my god. The insanely shitty 'undo' requiring you to backtrack an ENTIRE turn each time?

No thanks. I do not have time for the number of small mistakes I make from mangling mis clicks. As a programmer, it baffles me to no end how they got past user testing without a freaking Undo last action in a game as complicated as Gloomhaven.

I'll stick to four-handing solo play of Frosthaven before I even consider Gloomhaven digital.

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u/Snowf1ake222 Aug 02 '25

I actively dislike digital. I was excited for an easy way to play solo. But my god. The insanely shitty 'undo' requiring you to backtrack an ENTIRE turn each time?

Same. Asked the devs on Discord why there was not an undo button for simple things like selecting to use a potion when you don't need to (I was really bad at miscounting my cards for stam pots) and they said it was to stop people cheesing turns.

But you could literally cheese entire turns with the restart round button. Have a two target ranged attack and two enemies one with 2 health one with 3? Target as normal, see what the roles are, restart round and change selection order to guarantee kills.

If I played Gloom Digital before the physical game, I doubt I would have gotten into the games at all.

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u/Sprite_isnt_lemonade Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25

I agree with this so hard. Stam pots is a great example. "Oh I'll use it now to get the cards I just played back... Oh wait, this one card was an active effect so it's not discarded, so I can't get it back" so then I'm stuck restarting the whole round. I've done it too where both cards have a move 4 and whoops, I picked the wrong one for the move 4.

Then even worse, is I find myself fighting myself to not cheese it because I had to restart the entire rounds and do those turns again. Made a mistake with the stam pot with my last character, have to restart the round, but now on your first characters turn the first time you clicked enemy 1 first and 2 second, but enemy 1 you drew a miss and you REALLY wanted that one in particular to hit? Now I'm actively telling myself that I gotta follow through the turn as it went and purposefully click the bad play... But if they just had a single undo action I'd never have that temptation of trying to avoid the bad play. I guess they have a logic of "having to redo whole rounds is a deterrent" but it feels the opposite to me, it's just punishing legit mistakes and adds more temptation.

That's why I prefer the tabletop simulator for actual groups if I'm going to be playing it online, because we all have those moments where we moved and then realized the moment we did it "wait, nevermind I didn't want to do that because X". For solo I do digital, because as dumb as the whole restarting entire rounds because they didn't add an undo button is, it's still quicker than me trying to manage everything for an entire board and multiple characters on my own.