£19.99

This is a really "fun" game involving a very unique set of cards that are transparent with text and other items printed on them. The main aim is to make you family members as miserable as possible and then kill them off. There are 3 kinds of cards:

Modifiers that either make a person more miserable (negative score) or make a person happier (positive score) these are either played on your own or other players families.
Events that have an effect on gamelplay, sometimes even bringing the dead back to life or preventing someone dying
Death These cards are used to kill of your characters.

Each modifier is stacked on top of your character and the current status is read by looking at the stack. As the cards are transparent some bits become covered over and others added which is a fantastic mechanic and very unique.

Some of the modifiers whilst having a negative score sometimes have additional features that can effect you like losing a turn or reducing your hand size.

Once someone has killed of all their family members the game ends and the person wih the mose negative score wins.

The object of the game is to make your opponents family of characters happy, while at the same time making your own characters so miserable that they die! There are 3 different card categories, Modifier cards that give characters positive or negative scores, Event cards that affect gameplay in some way and death cards that can only be played on characters with negative scores. As the cards are transparent, cards can be stacked up on characters and the modifiers read through the cards, a really nifty idea!

The first game we played I had read the rules slightly wrong and for some reason thought that characters had to score as near zero as possible not have as big a minus score as possible! Now my son calls the game 'Slightly Upset' instead of Gloom!!