Cephalofair Games announced Gloomhaven Buttons & Bugs, a new game with a solo play campaign, which is available on their Gloomhaven Grand Festival crowdfunding campaign as an add-on.  This campaign (see "'Gloomhaven 2E'") has raised $2,863,633 from 12,515 backers with 14 days left to go (about $229 per backer).

Buttons & Bugs is compact Gloomhaven game that features minimalistic rules based on the Gloomholdin' card game.  The game features a solo original campaign story written by Isaac Childres, which set after the events of Gloomhaven and Forgotten Circles.  Each scenario reduced to a single card where one mercenary battles enemies with simplified actions that are run by AI.

The mercenary has a hand of four double-sided cards that can be used once for each side.  Combat involves rolling a die in conjunction with a modifier table.  The  mercenary ability cards can be improved as the player levels up during the campaign.

This game is for a single player and plays in 20 minutes.  Thus far, there has been no word on MSRP or a retail release date.

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