The grand app-driven dungeon crawl has reached the end of the road. Fantasy Flight Games has discontinued Descent: Legends of the Dark, pulling the plug on the third act that fans have been quietly waiting for since 2022. FFG's reasoning is blunt: rising manufacturing costs, an expensive in-house app, and global economic shifts mean that even shifting every last copy on a shelf would lose them money. In a board game industry that is "fiercely competitive," they say, that simply is not sustainable.
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See how it worksFor anyone unfamiliar, Descent: Legends of the Dark is FFG's lavish 2021 reboot of its long-running Terrinoth dungeon crawler. Instead of a dedicated overlord player it leaned hard on a companion app to run encounters, branching narrative and 3D paper terrain, and the result was widely admired for its production but punishing on the wallet. The Steam companion app sits at 90% positive across 273 user reviews, which makes the cancellation sting harder.
Act III is no longer in development, and FFG says it could not find a feasible way to deliver it in any form. The good news is that the app will continue to be supported, so anyone with the existing boxes can keep replaying through Acts I and II indefinitely. Long-term, Terrinoth is moving to screens: FFG has already announced Terrinoth: Heroes of Descent, a video game heading to PC, Mac and consoles later this spring with eight heroes, twenty dungeons and full voice acting.
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Find events near youIf your group still has unplayed quests on the shelf, this is the nudge to get them off it. The campaign is still complete on its own terms; it just no longer has a sequel waiting at the bottom of the box.
Sources: Fantasy Flight Games | BoardGameWire | BGG | TechRaptor
