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Fantasy Flight Games · 2021 · Windows, macOS

Steam: 88 % positive of 288 reviews, as of Oct 28

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.

24 games that play like Descent: Legends of the Dark and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Descent: Road to Legend, Terrinoth®: Heroes of Descent and The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth.

Player tags

  • Adventure
  • Strategy
  • Board Game
  • Strategy RPG
  • Tabletop
  • Dungeon Crawler
  • 3D
  • Fantasy
Map region: Turn-Based Tactics
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Plays and looks like Descent: Legends of the Dark

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Descent: Legends of the Dark

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. TaleSpire88 % positive of 4,415Shared: Board Game · Tabletop · Fantasy
  2. For The King II71 % positive of 12,849Shared: Strategy · Board Game · Tabletop
  3. Loop Hero91 % positive of 33,907Shared: Strategy RPG · Fantasy · Tactical
  4. Dark and Darker61 % positive of 89,326Shared: Dungeon Crawler · Fantasy · Multiplayer
  5. Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms75 % positive of 15,090Shared: Strategy · Dungeon Crawler · Fantasy
  6. Stolen Realm84 % positive of 3,533Shared: Strategy · Board Game · Tabletop
  7. Dark Quest77 % positive of 187Shared: Strategy · Board Game · Dungeon Crawler
  8. Armello81 % positive of 11,022Shared: Strategy · Board Game · Tabletop
  9. Tales of Fablecraft75 % positive of 249Shared: Strategy · Board Game · Tabletop
  10. The Elder Scrolls®: Legends™74 % positive of 11,071Shared: Strategy · Board Game · Fantasy
  11. Mansions of Madness92 % positive of 1,313Shared: Strategy · Board Game · Tabletop
  12. Frosthaven68 % positive of 990

By look

Looks like Descent: Legends of the Dark

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager79 % positive of 3,950
  2. The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth90 % positive of 942
  3. Gloomhaven82 % positive of 13,702
  4. Labyrinth65 % positive of 275
  5. Legend of Keepers: Prologue92 % positive of 2,380
  6. Vampire's Fall 291 % positive of 4,781
  7. Demeo: PC Edition81 % positive of 804
  8. Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked81 % positive of 1,343
  9. Ancient Enemy89 % positive of 386
  10. As We Descend85 % positive of 1,407
  11. Erannorth Reborn83 % positive of 386
  12. Vault of the Void92 % positive of 2,543

At a glance

What games like Descent: Legends of the Dark have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Descent: Legends of the Dark: Strategy (17 of 24), Board Game (16) and Tabletop (11).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 9 of them after Descent: Legends of the Dark (2021).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Sunderfolk (93 % positive of 1,931).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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