- August 6, 2021
- Fantasy Flight Games
- 31h median play time
Descent: Legends of the Dark
Played solo or co-op, Descent: Legends of the Dark is an enjoyable, if repetitive, dungeon crawling experience.
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Descent: Legends of the Dark is a single player and multiplayer role playing game. It was developed by Fantasy Flight Games and was released on August 6, 2021. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and very positive reviews from players.
To play the Descent: Legends of the Dark board game, one player must download the free Descent: Legends of the Dark app on a compatible device. This companion app determines the setup of each quest, tracks your party’s inventory, skills, progress, and resolves combat while telling a narrative story.
- The companion app is well-designed and enhances the gameplay by handling bookkeeping, game flow, and dungeon master roles, making sessions smoother and more immersive.
- The game offers a rich, cooperative dungeon crawling experience with high-quality miniatures, engaging crafting systems, and strategic combat that appeals to both solo and multiplayer groups.
- The modular 3D terrain and interactive environment add a strong visual and tactical element, supporting a variety of play styles and providing a highly replayable campaign with meaningful choices.
- The lack of voice acting and some low-quality art and narrative elements reduce immersion and can make the story feel tedious during group play.
- The app does not support cloud saves, requiring manual backup of save files, and some users experience technical issues and crashes, which affects convenience and reliability.
- Game length and set-up can be time-consuming, and some players find the gameplay grindy or overly reliant on repetitive combat and terrain building, leading to mixed opinions about pacing and engagement.
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The story is highly praised for its immersive, evolving narrative driven by player decisions and well-integrated app support, offering varied main and side quests that impact gameplay. While some find the story somewhat linear or simplistic, most appreciate its depth, the "fail forward" mechanic, and how player choices meaningfully influence missions and outcomes. Overall, the story enhances engagement and replayability, especially as players progress beyond initial missions.
“Another mention about Descent is that failure isn't the end - the story will evolve and change based on your successes and failures, and any loot you may have missed can eventually be purchased from the store for in-game gold that you will acquire through missions.”
“At first, we thought these were completely arbitrary, however we quickly learned that the decisions your group and character makes will actually have a direct effect on both the current, and future missions.”
“The app drives the action and story while providing a great visual backdrop to the table and helps with the immersion into the world, especially in between missions.”
“The story was written by a 12 year old who watches too much TikTok.”
“Silly story.”
“Story that is on rails.”
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Descent: Legends of the Dark is a role playing game.
Descent: Legends of the Dark is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.
On average players spend around 23 hours playing Descent: Legends of the Dark.
Descent: Legends of the Dark was released on August 6, 2021.
Descent: Legends of the Dark was developed by Fantasy Flight Games.
Descent: Legends of the Dark has received mostly positive reviews from players and mostly positive reviews from critics. Most players liked this game for its story but disliked it for its gameplay.
Descent: Legends of the Dark is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.
Similar games include Legends of the Dark, The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth, Eon Altar, Mansions of Madness, Sunderfolk and others.