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by Mark Larson

Youve been summoned to Castle Slogar to celebrate Melissas 9th birthday. again. But the party has gone awfully awry. Guests are scattered throughout the labyrinthine castle, and Lord Slogar is missing. Its up to you to lend a hand, or a foot, or whatever you can spare to save the party and rescue Lord Slogar. Unhappy Birthday at Castle Slogar is a sorrowful solo gamebook filled with interactive puzzles. A full map of the castle shows which rooms youve explored. The books sections describe each room, where youll face a horrible hindrance or a character whose dismal dilemma youll solve to access the next room. Having trouble A special website provides hints and extra material. Unravel the riddles then use your answers to find the gloriously gloomy finale. Specifications. Release Date Dec 16, 2024. Weight 0.336 lbs

64 pages, Paperback

Published December 31, 2024

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so fun! I'm a fan of the Gloom card game, so when this caught my eye in my local game shop, I gave it a try. For reference, this was rated a 3/5 difficulty on the back cover and I am a library director in my 30s who's usually pretty braindead at the end of the day (I completed this over a weekend). A few of the challenges I didn't need the website hints for at all, but most of the time I utilized them to either better grasp what the puzzle wanted or to check that I was on the right track. Since each room of the castle is its own puzzle, it was easy to put the book down between rooms and come back to it later while still having a through-line of the story.

A couple of things I will note, just to put them out there. The intro of the book makes it sound like the website is optional: it is very much not. You don't have to use the website's hints, but you rely on the website to unveil the new rooms of the castle to you (and their corresponding pages). You will also need the base game of Gloom for one puzzle and a deck of tarot cards for another: neither was mentioned in the intro.

Personally, I didn't care for the one sudoku-like puzzle or the two maze-like puzzles, but I'd just chalk that up to personal preference. If anyone from Atlas Games/Enigma happens to see this, I WOULD BUY TWELVE MORE OF THESE, ALL STARRING THE VARIOUS CHARACTERS OF THE GAME, PLEASE AND THANK YOU!