The thing that really bums me out is not that they created a game without an overlord in the same universe, I'm all in on them creating different and cool games that follow the story of the same place, what bums me is that Descent was THE game for Overlord play, I have other Dungeon Crawlers to play 100% co-op, and I also love them, but when they teased Descent it got my hopes up for a new and improved game with an Overlord, and they just let us build our hopes up and then broke them. If they had announced all at once that they were creating a game in the same Universe but fully co-op and app integrated then the shock would have been way less I think.

With regards to the app, it does give the flexibility to add more campaigns as DLC which would be great! But they haven't leaned on that as much as I'd have liked in the past, they usually still mostly add physical expansions to get digital content, which kinda defeats the purpose for me, and when they do release digital content they don't use it to its full potential, you don't usually have digital expansions that require multiple physical ones. Mind you this also happened with Decent 2.0, they released only one campaign on its own, they could have made so many more combining different expansions and it could have been so great.

I feel the same way, I really had my hopes up for an overlord, since I really like playing as one and against one, it's not the same to play against an AI than against a real human and friend, I'll check reviews when this comes out but it's really not what I was hoping for. Also, I work on computers all day long, it really makes a HUGE difference to me when a board games needs an app like this, I love MoM, but I wasn't looking for something like that on my Descent too, at least not mandatory.