![]() ![]() There are multiple save slots so that you can run multiple campaigns at once! Quest SetupĪs with most adventure-style board games, there is a fair amount of setup each time you want to sit down and play Descent: Legends of the Dark. Each time you revisit the game, click on Load Campaign in the App and choose your party. The campaign is the wrapper that surrounds each of the quests in the game. Then the game starts, and you are on your way! Ours is the Detectives of Descent… well, we are “Detective Hawk Games” after all. Once you and your group are ready to play, you all will need to decide on your party’s name. ![]() You must also have the free App installed on a device (phone, tablet, or computer) to start a campaign. Each character has two weapons, but only one is active at a time, so the sleeve allows you to treat the two cards as a single card during gameplay. You will also need to take each hero’s two weapon cards, place them back to back with the “upgraded” sides facing each other, and put them into the included card sleeve. Fantasy Flight included a space in the box bottom to store the game terrain. We suggest that you do this a couple of days ahead of your planned game night. Then you need to spend about an hour putting together all the 3D terrain. First, you must punch out all the tokens and map tiles along with the pieces that make up the 3D terrain from the included cardboard punch sheets. Campaign Setupīefore you even sit down to play your first game of Descent: Legends of the Dark, there’s the initial prep. There are two types of setup in the game. If you want to skip to our Overall Impressions, they are at the bottom of the article. So, before we get into more details about the game, let’s get into how the different parts of gameplay work and our thoughts on them. We played a game on Sunday and sat down at 5 pm, when we finally checked the time, it was 7 pm. Speaking of each time you play, an individual game takes a couple of hours to play, but it never feels like you’ve played for two hours because of how engaging it is. If you are thinking about getting Descent: Legends of the Dark, definitely understand you are getting yourself into an immersive experience that changes every time you play, and you aren’t just buying a single board based game that you fold out and play and then put away, repeating every time you play. Instead, the board layout adapts to the story and truly feels like you are on a grand, immersive adventure.Ī shot to show the game’s board elevation It never feels like you are playing the same game over and over again. This difference is due to the modular board system and terrain tiles. Each quest is very different in its objective and physically looks very different on the board. Your job is to guide these characters through varying quests that make up an entire campaign. Each hero is unique in that they all have different skills and stats listed on the hero’s character card along with their skill and weapon cards. ![]() ![]() Each player can take on a single role or do what we do in a two-player campaign and play two heroes each. In the game, you play a hero who is part of a group of adventurers, each with different motives but all trying to complete quests together. Fair warning, this is a lengthy article as we dive into all aspects of the gameplay! The Gameĭescent: Legends of the Dark is a unique game, and there is a lot to unpack in how this game plays. In this article, we’ll be diving into how the game plays. There will be two more boxes released in the future. In this fully cooperative game, 1-4 players take on the challenge of adventuring through the harsh and unforgiving land of Terrinoth. The Fate of Terrinoth is upon us…Released Friday, August 6th from Fantasy Flight Games was the hotly anticipated Descent: Legends of the Dark. ![]()
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