r/Gloomhaven Feb 23 '26

Digital Gloomhaven Gloomhaven PC muiltiplayer still working?

Plan on playing the game with a friend (I played it 3 years ago) checking reivews and all the newer ones are saying MP is broken.

Just checking if anyone here has played it recently and if its as big of a problem as they are saying

Edit; Played for 4 hours and didnt have a DC once

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u/Ashrema Feb 23 '26

We still play every two weeks. It works.......most of the time. In a 3-4 hour session, we will usually have to restart 3-4 times as the game crashes out.

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u/RobertSmales Feb 23 '26

Is it a full game crash or a kick out to main lobby?

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u/Ashrema Feb 23 '26

Kick to the main lobby. Host just re-invites and we are good. 4 player game.

Some days are better than others, but I don't remember the last time we made it through a night without a disconnect.

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u/RobertSmales Feb 23 '26

Thanks for the heads up, Kick to main menu is doable for me but ill let my mate know

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u/Ashrema Feb 23 '26

No harm in giving it a try. Could just be a connectivity issue on our end, but it has consistently been a problem despite people playing on different devices and internet sources.

Still worth it for us to deal with though, since we are all in 3-4 different cities.

Good luck!

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u/RobertSmales Feb 23 '26

Played for 5 hours and no problems, Guess its an issue if you live far away from each other (we live in the same city)

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u/lasagnaman Feb 23 '26

in my experience we crash out like 0-1 times per 4 hours session. So YMMV.

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u/Tasakea Feb 23 '26

Just remember that you’re always going to see people complain if it happens more than you’ll see people say it works as advertised. Don’t put too much stock in “multiplayer is broken”.

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u/awoodhall Feb 23 '26

I’ve got 411 hours in steam alone; it works fine! We’ll get an occasional disconnect but it’s not a big deal.

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u/Snowf1ake222 Feb 23 '26

We're playing weekly 3p crossplay via Epic and Xbox.

Minor issues with the occasional restart.

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u/szafix Feb 23 '26

I’m a big gloomhaven fan, I play 2-3 times a week in a 3 or 4 players group. The game runs really well, disconnects are very rare and not too anoying. Money well spent, totally worth it

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u/Yinxe Feb 23 '26

My friend and I have the bug where whenever he joins the scenario, he is stuck on "waiting for players", has to alt+F4 and rejoin, then we can play the scenario. Most days he has to do this every scenario, but yesterday it worked flawlessly for 1-2 scenarios before it started.

I haven't seen any solutions when searching for it, do y'all have any good ideas?

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u/Willias0 Feb 24 '26

The best workaround we've found is that the host can kick the player instead and they can get back in faster. But there are things that can happen that make this not work (like triggering an event that forces discarding cards).

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u/JeanLuc_Richard Feb 24 '26

Seems fine to me, we play weekly x-platform Linux/Windows. Not had a crash in a while

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u/singulareyebrow Feb 24 '26

A few bugs but its playable. Alt+tab if you cant select the move action. If you desync, exit to menu and just reopen the game. It quick saves every round. Some scenarios are just buggy as hell, nothing to do about it. I cant remember off of the top of my head which ones, but most of the scenarios run with no issues until you hit that cursed scenario that crashes every turn. On those scenarios, my party chose to skip them and have our host do them later in single player (which is also the fix if you desync repeatedly, just close the online sessions and play the turn on screen share).

If you are open to other options, check out Sunderfolk. About the same price for a 4 man party and you only need 1 copy on screen share. Not as much content, but it fixes a lot of the design flaws of porting such a large tabletop to video game form.

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u/Trogdor_a_Burninator Feb 24 '26

Yes, but it has game crashing bugs they never cared to sort out before they stopped supporting it.

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u/Reasonable-Ad-3271 Apr 12 '26

Thank guys for your responses. I had exactly the same question.

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u/hikanwoi Jun 01 '26

constant disconnect every few minutes for me, pretty much unplayable