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Descent: The Altar of Despair

2–5 players · best with 5 · ~120–240 min to play · ages 12+ · 2007

kind · Adventure complexity · Heavy

language · Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable (7 votes)

BGG 7.7/10 (1,711 ratings) · weight 3.4/5 View on BGG ↗

Questions here read: Descent: Journeys in the Darkbg-17226-en-1e · Descent: The Altar of Despairbg-24976-en-1e This box expands Descent: Journeys in the Dark, so a question here is asked on the base game and reads both books.

Asked on Descent: Journeys in the Dark, with this expansion included.

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🔧 BGG — every figure this page shows, and where it came from
the word this page prints
Heavy
community weight
3.35 of 5
votes behind it
127 weight votes
community rating
7.72 of 10
ratings behind it
1,711 ratings
players
2–5
best with
5 players
how that best-with count was read
BGG's own poll summary
recommended counts — read out of BGG's poll-summary sentence
2–5
language dependence — the level BGG's poll names, ties read upward
4 of 5 — Extensive use of text - massive conversion needed to be playable
votes in that poll
7 votes
minimum age — the figure BGG reports, which a printed box can disagree with
12+
play time — the min and max BGG reports
120–240 min
play time — the headline figure BGG reports
240 min
year published
2007
captured
Aug 24, 2026
source
BoardGameGeek XML API
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Adventure · the kind of evening
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Approved Aug 17, 2026, one at a time.

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