Road to Legend vs Avel
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!
Avel
Enhance your board game experience with this companion app. Generate custom maps, manage game expansions, and access unique sound effects to immerse yourself in the world of Avel. It also assists with character naming and in-game timers.
- Custom map generation
- Expansion content integration
- Character name generator
- Immersive sound effects
- In-game timers and counters
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Take your games to a new level with the free Avel app! The generator will allow you to create new maps in all three difficulties. You will discover the game anew and easily adjust it to your needs. The app allows for the ‘Adventurer’s Toolkit’ expansion and, with just few clicks, will introduce new board tiles from the expansion. You don’t have to worry about looking for the rulebook! Are you looking for ideas on how to name your hero or heroine? Before you begin the game, the app will help you create a character—draw a name and nickname or put in your own suggestion in order to bring to life the most incredible defenders of Avel. Listen to the sounds of battle, celebrate your victories, and experience losses in a new dimension. The app includes unique sounds that will make your battles come to life and will allow you to listen to the noises of the magical kingdom. The Avel app will allow you to track the Beast’s toughness on the counter and the hourglass will measure the time while you look for an equipment token in the bag. And it all happens on one screen!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Road to Legend at 4.5 against Avel's 3.0. Road to Legend also leads on ratings volume (55 vs 2) and review sentiment (74% vs 60%). Avel's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Avel asks for nothing beyond the download.
Road to Legend holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Road to Legend has 55 ratings behind it against 2, 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 60% of Avel's.
Road to Legend ships an update every 3 months, Avel every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Road to Legend | Avel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (55 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 55 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 335 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Fantasy Flight Games | Rebel Sp. z o.o. |
Customer experience
Road to Legend
Avel
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
Avel
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Road to Legend
- The Delve$4.99
- Trials of Frostgate$4.99
Avel
No in-app purchases
