This Shroom and Gloom characters page is the Early Access class roster for Shroom and Gloom: five official kits, quest unlocks, and a hard line against community database extras. Team Lazerbeam / Devolver Digital. Steam App 3271280. EA September 10, 2026. Verified September 12, 2026. Store: Steam listing.
Players searching wiki characters want the live five — Paperboy, Lunch Lady, Janitor, Activist, Concerned Parent — not a 7-row dump. Third-party class lists that add Researcher, Slob, or Grubby stay version-snapshot / TBA. Each live class ships a unique starting Combat Deck, Explore Deck, and base Foresight. Patch talk: Discord (https://discord.gg/ZZspguu7Vu).
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Game | Shroom and Gloom · Team Lazerbeam · Steam 3271280 |
| Official EA five | Paperboy · Lunch Lady · Janitor · Activist · Concerned Parent |
| Starter | Paperboy (warmth / camp / Fireballs) |
| Unlocks | Quests unlock packs, classes, and the extra pathway |
| Kit shape | Unique starting Combat Deck + Explore Deck + base Foresight |
| Activist | Named on the EA five — kit TBA, no invented cards |
| Snapshot extras | Researcher · Slob · Grubby — community DB / TBA, not confirmed live |
| Paths | Two EA pathways (~300 explore + combat cards each) |
| Mode | Single-player |
| Verified | September 12, 2026 |
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Official EA copy and Steam-facing notes put five playable classes on the board. This wiki characters list is that five, in the order most players meet them: Paperboy first, then Lunch Lady, Janitor, Activist, and Concerned Parent. Playable classes (Paperboy + unlocks). Early Access · Sep 10, 2026. A class is not a skill tree — it is a starting dual-deck plus one Foresight that reshapes how you explore and fight toward The Gloom.
Do not flatten Shroom and Gloom characters into “seven classes because a database has seven rows.” Community dumps (build-tagged card DBs) sometimes show Researcher, Slob, and Grubby beside the five. Those rows are version snapshots, not a confirmed live EA roster. If your class select does not show them, they are not live for you. The next section starts with the kit that is always there: Paperboy.
| Class | EA status | Public kit tags | Do not invent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperboy | Starter · live | Warmth, camp, Fireballs, Burning Sensation | Full starter card IDs |
| Lunch Lady | Unlock · live | Cook, feed, dog, Feast, soup pot | Exact recipes / HP tables |
| Janitor | Unlock · live | Facility, gunk, machines, data, locks | Complete gunk deck list |
| Activist | Unlock · live name | Kit TBA | Any exclusive card names |
| Concerned Parent | Unlock · live | Rage, Mood, Hysterical Strength, photo draws | Rage formula as law |
| Researcher / Slob / Grubby | Snapshot / TBA | Flavor lines in community DBs only | Treat as live EA five |
Paperboy is the demo and EA starter: a route gone wrong, a camp that wants heat, and Fireballs you can Feed. Public tags — not a complete deck dump — are Fireballs, Burning Sensation, Campfire, and Distant Shadow. Paperboy is how this wiki characters page teaches warmth before you chase a flashier unlock.
Warmth cuts hazard sting on the next rooms. Burning Sensation is a temporary card: discard destroys it; keep it in hand and the camp gains warmth (public notes cite +10 Warmth). You can also spend it to Ignite. Paperboy can push one extra explore beat past the usual safe stop — whether that extra step is “free” depends on camp warmth. Treat that extra room as a warmth check, not a greed check.
Public loop: Feed Fireballs → restore 2 Headpoints → create Burning Sensation. That is eat-to-heal plus a warmth leftover, which is the same economy as eat and soup without pretending Paperboy is a cook class. Distant Shadow is named in public notes with a 3 Energy cost in some fight contexts — verify in your Card Inspector; do not freeze a wiki number as Steam law.
First loop: keep both decks alive, roast something you can eat, grow one starter attack, leave with a named next unlock. Paperboy is not “the weak class.” Paperboy is the tutorial that still works when you return after a Lunch Lady run. Dual-deck split lives on decks. The next class on most search pages is Lunch Lady — because that is the kit people actually want to see cook.
Lunch Lady is the cook/feed class with a dog companion — a partner card, not a second player. Demo players often saw her locked; EA lists her among the five. Public objects: Apron, Dog, Feasts, soup pot. Flavor line in community notes: she did not have time to hand in substitute forms. Use her when the run already wants roast and eat, not as a generic DPS swap.
Lunch Lady’s job is to turn enemies into food and food into Headpoints or Feast conditions. Soup in the pot is still the run-changer; the dog is extra pressure on Feed synergies, not a skip of Combat Deck work. If you never roast, the dog has nothing interesting to stand next to. If you only cook and never explore-modify, you stall the other deck — same dual-deck trap as Paperboy, with more snacks.
Exact Feast thresholds, dog HP, and which cards are starting versus pack-unlocked stay TBA until Card Inspector in your build. Do not paste a 40-row Lunch Lady deck from a snapshot DB as this site’s law. This page’s job is kit identity: cook, feed, dog. Card families sit on card list. Next fork is Janitor versus Concerned Parent — two very different second unlocks.
Janitor and Concerned Parent are the two live unlocks with public mechanical tags. Activist is on the five but has no reliable public kit — skip inventing banners, petitions, or exclusive cards. Pick Janitor when the run is about Facility gunk. Pick Concerned Parent when you want Mood, Rage, and photo draws. The table below is the mid-page fork; Activist stays a named slot until a patch writes the kit.
| If you want… | Play | Do not |
|---|---|---|
| Facility metal, locks, machines, gunk as a resource | Janitor | Force Janitor onto Forgotten Path as if gunk were global |
| Mood cards, Rage on attacks, draw engines | Concerned Parent | Treat Rage as a permanent Steam number |
| A named fifth class with no public cards | Activist (slot only) | Invent an Activist exclusive list |
| Warmth and Fireballs you already understand | Stay Paperboy one more run | Reroll class to “fix” a dual-deck mistake |
| Cook / feed / dog | Lunch Lady | Expect the dog to replace Combat Deck |
Public framing ties Janitor to gunk, machines, data, high-tech doors, and digital locks. Facility is the second EA pathway with its own card pool. Janitor is the class that makes that pool feel intended — not a proof that Janitor cannot walk Forgotten Path. Complete starting lists are unpublished; plan around gunk and locks, then verify in Inspector.
Flavor: they were meant to be back hours ago. Public kit: Parental Instinct (once per fight) creates Hysterical Strength, a temporary Mood. Hysterical Strength adds 2 Rage damage to attacks; each card drawn adds 2 more Rage. Viewing the missing-child photo draws 2 cards, which feeds that Rage climb. Dad Reflexes draws more attacks. Mama Bear is a free attack that deals 2 damage per card in hand. Those figures are public notes — re-check tooltips after patches. Mood is a temporary combat layer, not a third deck. Foresight pairing: foresight.
Classes are meta unlocks, not shop skins. Steam EA pitches quests for card packs, characters, and the extra pathway. Community quest tables (treat as snapshot) name ten rows. Two rewards say New character; one says New path. Do not map a quest name onto a specific class unless your UI shows that pair.
| Quest (community snapshot) | Condition (snapshot) | Reward type |
|---|---|---|
| Search Party | Discover all tunnels in the Forgotten Path | New character (which kit: verify in UI) |
| Want Some More | Defeat Megashroom | New character (which kit: verify in UI) |
| Gloom Walker | Reach the gloom | New path — not a class |
| Adventurous / Armed / Camper | Discover cards or fill a campsite | Card pack |
| First Course / King's Quest | Named boss / Toad king hunger | Card pack |
| Meltdown / Need For Feed | Rage extra damage / serve slop | Card pack |
A card pack changes what can show up in a run. A class changes your starting two decks and Foresight. Mixing those reward types is how players “unlock Lunch Lady” in their head and then get a pack. Full quest walkthrough belongs on quests. Named fights that gate Want Some More sit on bosses.
Community databases sometimes count seven classes. Flavor lines in circulation: Researcher looking for specimens; Slob rolled off the couch; Grubby with “only one grub, incredibly rare.” Official EA-facing roster remains the five. This page labels the extras as version-snapshot / TBA. Roadmap language already promises new character classes during the 12–24 month EA window — that is a future row, not permission to promote dump names as live.
If a patch actually ships one of those names, move it into the live five table and drop the TBA label. Until then, a Shroom and Gloom characters query should not rank a fan DB’s seventh portrait above Paperboy. Official Discord is for “is this in today’s build?”; this wiki stays on the five plus the caveat. Next: the mistakes that waste an unlock.
The expensive mistakes are identity mistakes. You unlock Janitor and play Paperboy Fireballs on Facility gunk. You treat Activist like a finished kit. You import seven wiki characters from a 907-card dump. You skip quests and wonder why class select never moves. Shroom and Gloom wants the class to rewrite both decks, not a costume on the same Combat pile.
Concerned Parent without draws never stacks Hysterical Strength. Lunch Lady who never roasts never feeds. Janitor who never touches a lock never spends gunk. Paperboy who discards every Burning Sensation never pays the warmth tax. Activist with a fan-wiki kit you invented will not match the Inspector.
Snapshot extras are not Steam law. Quest-to-class mappings stay verify-in-UI. Rage +2 / photo +2 draws are public notes, not a forever patch-proof formula. Live chatter: Discord. Durable roster rules stay here.
Next: match the unlock to a quest row on quests, then slot that class’s Foresight on foresight. This Shroom and Gloom characters roster does not change until the quest UI does.
Janitor players should open paths for Facility gunk. Lunch Lady players should open eat and soup.
Five official Shroom and Gloom characters: Paperboy, Lunch Lady, Janitor, Activist, Concerned Parent. Community DBs listing Researcher, Slob, or Grubby are version snapshots, not confirmed live roster.
Paperboy. Warmth, camp, Fireballs, Burning Sensation. Demo and EA both start here.
Through quests (meta unlocks). Snapshot tables name Search Party and Want Some More as “New character” rewards — confirm which kit in your quest UI.
TBA. The name is on the official five. Do not invent exclusive cards until Inspector or patch notes show them.
Yes in public notes: Parental Instinct → Hysterical Strength Mood, +2 Rage on attacks, +2 Rage per draw, photo draws 2. Re-verify tooltips after patches.
No. Companion / partner card. The game is single-player.
EA roadmap lists new character classes during the 12–24 month window. That is planned content, not a live seventh portrait.
Only https://discord.gg/ZZspguu7Vu — see Discord.
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