Road to Legend vs Gloomhaven Attack Deck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Road to Legend
This app transforms your board game experience by acting as the overlord, controlling monsters and guiding players through dungeons. It enables a fully cooperative mode, allowing all players to be heroes and explore new adventures with existing game expansions.
- Acts as overlord, controlling monsters
- Enables fully cooperative hero play
- Guides players through dungeon exploration
- Supports physical game expansions
- Offers new quest experiences
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Road to Legend is a companion app for the Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd edition board game. When you play with Road to Legend, the app assumes the role of the overlord player, controlling monsters and inviting you to explore the dungeon in entirely new and unexpected ways. At its heart, Road to Legend introduces a fully-formed, cooperative way to play Descent, freeing you and your friends to all play as heroes and defeat the darkness in Terrinoth. With a series of fully-formed quests and the ability to incorporate your entire collection of physical Descent expansions, Road to Legend provides a thrilling new variant on the classic Descent experience!
Gloomhaven Attack Deck
Streamline your tabletop combat experience by digitally managing your attack modifier decks. Never forget to shuffle, easily add special cards, and track your deck's contents. Supports multiple characters and all expansions.
- Digital attack modifier deck management
- Automatic shuffling
- Add curses, blesses, and scenario cards
- Track deck contents
- Supports multiple characters and decks
- Spoiler-free class support
- Unlock advanced classes via in-app purchase
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UPDATED WITH FULL SUPPORT FOR FROSTHAVEN! Tired of your Gloomhaven game slowing to a crawl when someone realizes they should have shuffled their attack modifier deck last round? Looking for a way to play Gloomhaven with 5 players? Or just looking for an additional way to speed up the game further and reduce book-keeping? Features: • Simple interface: Tap on your deck to draw a card • Never forget to shuffle your deck again • Shuffle by just tapping a button • Add curses, blesses, or scenario -1 cards with a simple tap • Easily see in the menu how many blesses and curses remain in your deck • Easily choose class perks for your deck • Spoiler-free support for all classes in Gloomhaven, Forgotten Circles, Jaws of the Lion, and Frosthaven • Supports having multiple characters with different decks - perfect for multiple people sharing one device, or for solo play • Full support for the special abilities in the new expansion (to avoid spoilers, they only show up under "Undo or Reshuffle" in the menu once you have unlocked the appropriate class) • View all cards in your deck, or manually modify your deck card by card Completely free to use for all basic Gloomhaven classes and basic Frosthaven classes. In-app purchase of only $0.99 to unlock all advanced Gloomhaven & Forgotten Circles classes. In-app purchase of only $0.99 to unlock all Jaws of the Lion classes and Frosthaven advanced classes. Purchases go toward continued development and support of the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gloomhaven Attack Deck at 4.9 against Road to Legend's 4.5. Gloomhaven Attack Deck also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 74%) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Road to Legend sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Gloomhaven Attack Deck sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gloomhaven Attack Deck holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gloomhaven Attack Deck has 472 ratings behind it against 55, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Road to Legend's written reviews are positive against 93% of Gloomhaven Attack Deck's.
Road to Legend ships an update every 3 months, Gloomhaven Attack Deck every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Road to Legend | Gloomhaven Attack Deck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (55 ratings) | 4.9 (472 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 55 | 472 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 335 MB | 149 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fantasy Flight Games | Ross Bayer |
Customer experience
Road to Legend
Gloomhaven Attack Deck
User reviews
Road to Legend
From 55 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for solo/co-op play
- 💡 Replaces the Overlord role
- 🚀 Streamlined setup and gameplay
- ✨ Adds immersion and atmosphere
- 🤩 Makes an amazing game better
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐛 Saves get corrupted
- 🐛 Game state lost on exit
- 🐛 Tutorial is too brutal
- 🐛 Difficulty spikes
Gloomhaven Attack Deck
From 472 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Speeds up gameplay
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 No intrusive ads
- 👍 Streamlines game setup/cleanup
- 👍 Great for solo play
Room to improve
- 🐛 JoTL perks not fully updated for Frosthaven
- 🐛 Does not rotate with iPad
- 🐛 No landscape mode
- 🐛 Lacks status, HP, and XP tracking
Bugs and requests
Road to Legend
Reported bugs
24 issues- App crashes when loading saved games
- App crashes in town
- Market items disappear after crash
- App crashes on shop purchase
- App tells you to put out monsters despite knowing player count
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- On-screen text/player icons don't match player count/characters
- Can't play saved games on different devices
- Have to wait for app to reload after backing out
- New update messed up damage/fatigue/might icons
- Map tiles missing for some stages in 'The Delve'
- Game auto-saves on new map in 'The Delve', forcing abandonment
- App crashes when trying to load a saved campaign
- Bug with saved games exiting to iOS homepage
- App crashes when trying to load a campaign on iPad Air 2
- Game stops letting player play, crashes on loading saved file
- Encountered a bug with the latest update, when attempting to load a saved game the game exits straight to the IOS homepage.
- When my play group tried to speak to the female women worriers and selected an ethereal weapon the game incorrectly registered which weapon we chose.
- The app keeps losing my progress and glitches prevent me from pressing any buttons.
- Saved games get corrupted, crashing the app on restart.
- Game state is lost sometimes if you swap out to Safari (to look up rules).
- It sometimes gets confused when you save between missions, disallowing recovery in town or purchase of equipment.
- App crashes every time I try to load a saved campaign.
- Constant crash when trying to load a saved campaign.
- Update is a bust, crashes when loading campaign on iPad Air 2.
Requested features
17 requests- Option to switch between 1st and 2nd edition
- Permanent version for long-term use
- More extensive voice-over work
- Allow players to control perils
- Account creation for cross-device saves
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- Random map generator
- User-created quests/campaigns
- Support for conversion kit
- Import base game/expansion scenarios
- Web-based system for user-created campaigns
- Track hero stats/statuses digitally
- Larger font for phones
- Support for co-op variants of existing campaigns
- Tutorial mode for new players
- Undo button for misclicks
- Easier to find in app store
- French version
Gloomhaven Attack Deck
Reported bugs
3 issues- JoTL perks not fully updated for Frosthaven
- Does not rotate with iPad
- No landscape mode
Requested features
4 requests- Option to use official Frosthaven Crossover Character Sheets for JoTL characters
- Way to track statuses, HP, and exp
- Advantage and disadvantage draw buttons
- Monster deck feature
In-app purchases
Road to Legend
- The Delve$4.99
- Trials of Frostgate$4.99
Gloomhaven Attack Deck
- Gloomhaven & Forgotten Circles$0.99
- Jaws of the Lion & Frosthaven$0.99
Questions
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