Independent run companion
Boss help, Rest and Gloom, and smarter card choices—organized around the exact moment your run goes sideways.
Start with the failure you can see. Solve that before chasing a perfect build.
FIELD NOTE / 001Run triage / choose the symptom
Pick the failure you can see. We’ll route you to the smallest useful answer.
The connected system
Your strongest choice is the one that connects exploration, combat and recovery.
Your Explore deck decides where the run can go and what reaches the next room.
02 / COMBATA boss-ready deck needs a defense floor and a repeatable way to finish.
03 / RECOVERFood and Gloom turn recovery into a route decision, not a free reset.
Official Steam screenshotFirst useful lesson
It redraws your hand while Gloom rises. The cleaner hand can carry a real health cost.
Built for a changing game
The game is still pre-release. Official store facts establish the release status, while gameplay observations stay tied to the demo or build where they were seen. Approximate card totals remain approximate.
Four useful boundaries
Shroom and Gloom connects route choices, combat cards, food, recovery and rising Gloom. A useful guide keeps those systems connected without pretending every number is permanent before Early Access.
No. The official description says each pathway can contain roughly 300 Explore and Combat cards, but that is not a verified global card count. The card guide teaches repeatable evaluation—deck, timing, immediate job and next threat—until a current-build card set can be maintained accurately.
Use it as a starting model, not a promise. The demo establishes the two-deck loop, camp actions and the relationship between exploration resources and survival. Exact card text, routes, encounter behavior and save rules may change when the Early Access build arrives.
Start before the boss room. Inspect the next threat, remove or avoid weak combat draws, make sure the deck has a defensive floor, and carry a repeatable way to finish. If food is available, price roasting, eating and resting against the Gloom pressure you already have.
Use the issues guide to separate a rules misunderstanding from a technical fault. Record the build, room, platform and smallest repeatable action sequence. Protect the current save before changing files or sync state, then change one variable at a time.
