Gloom

Afflicted by severe amnesia, you drift deep into the Common Dream. You scour for the lost pages of the Necronomicon, while clinging on to any little purpose you have left. Faced with mad dreamers, horrible abominations and eldritch deities, you feel drawn to the dark Abyss deep within.

Gloom is a indie, action roguelike and action game developed and published by Hunchback Studio.
Released on April 13th 2017 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 587 reviews of which 490 were positive and 97 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 0.99€ on Steam and has a 90% discount.

The Steam community has classified Gloom into these genres:

Indie Action Roguelike Action Lovecraftian Adventure Rogue-like 2D Difficult Rogue-lite Pixel Graphics Great Soundtrack Souls-like Atmospheric Side Scroller Perma Death Procedural Generation Dark Story Rich

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP or later
Processor: 2 GHz processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 128 MB graphics
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 100 MB available space
Additional Notes: Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller or Direct inputs compatible controller highly recommended

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or later
Processor: 2 GHz processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 128 MB graphics
Storage: 100 MB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 14 or above
Processor: 2 GHz processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 128 MB graphics
Storage: 100 MB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

This game honestly defined roguelikes for me. While the combat may feel clunky to some, to me it feels precise and calculable. I love the items and the weapon upgrades, and the simplicity of the visuals just feels right. I'll never love another roguelike the way that I loved Gloom.

June 2024

I give this game a rank C (60-65%) Okay game - not bad but you can skip it or try on sale. See my profile for more details about my reviews. I give Gloom about 61% in rating. Now I am bit late to this game obviously, when it came out like 7 years ago. Maybe when it came out it had a bigger reach and meaning, as much as Salt and Sanctuary (which I still have to do). Would it have changed my judgment? Hard to tell, especially since I finished the whole Dark Souls trilogy this past year. I thought the game was not great for the first 10 minutes, but after one hour I realized there was more to it. Basically Gloom is a very eerie, indie, 2D take on the Souls genre, mixed with some elements of rogue likes. The souls like recipe is here, with stamina, roll, tough fights, dark atmosphere. The rogue elements are also here, however, it is a one time trip (perma death if that talks to you). If you lose, you restart from scratch, everything, as there is no save point, 1990s style. However, you keep the (few) amount of tokens you might have found (usually a couple), which allow you to get a little boost at the start of your next run. But that's it. And that is not much! It is quite decent despite (because?) all that. The dialogues with the NPCs change/vary each new run, the gameplay is smooth (albeit a bit light), the art is pretty while a bit clumsy/indie, all the items make the runs somewhat varied. Yet overall the experience gets very repetitive and disheartening when, like me, you don't have much time. I almost hesitated giving Gloom around 58% in rating, but I see all the efforts in the gameplay, that is why I still give it a C. If you want a little indie game in that genre, this one is very well made and should make you try and try again for a while. Me, I have too many other games that much better so I can sacrifice the time to dig deeper, but maybe you will? Hem & Watch is live on [url=https://www.twitch.tv/hemandwatch]Twitch Reviews on [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36483989/]Steam Chat on [url=https://discord.gg/hXpRe7Z]Discord

March 2024

It's a hard but rewarding game. You get better by getting familiar with the items (relics) and figuring out the movesets of the enemies. The bosses are extremely well made and fair. If you like subtle story telling and minimal tutorials where you piece things together each playthrough, then you'll probably like this game. Oh and the biggest advice that I can give is don't dismiss the gun just because the first one sucks. Try different guns/upgrades/items. This isn't like Bloodborne where your gun is just an afterthought. Your gun can be your main weapon on certain runs.

Feb. 2024

Today I completely finished this game without cheating. I did not put extra effort. Just kept trying I think the point is trying.

Dec. 2023

Incredible game i bought it and immediately played an hour with it feeling like 10 minutes had passed, i got it on sale for 69 p which is an absolute steal but its definitely worth the full price. Its like a 2d soulslike with elements from binding of isaac.

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-90% 9.99€ 0.99€

7.9

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Developer

Hunchback Studio

Publisher

Hunchback Studio

Release 13 Apr 2017

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