Dont you have enough with Forsthaven, Gloomhaven, etherfields, Tainted Grail, Darkest Dungeon, Middara.. wait, what about Every single major game in this genre for the last 5 years!!! To make things worse you say you are happy it's puzzle mode only, but you are not buying it? Hm. Reasonable. Descent should remain the competitive one.

Agreed. Descent has a wonderful (and at this point almost the only available) competitive mode. Why take this name? There won't be Descent 3ed?

I don't know there. The reason they went for puzzle mode (solo or "co-op") only is obvisouly due to the success the genre is having sales-wise. I suspect too many solo "players" are pumping this market, buying all there is. Watch for example what happened with Shadow Tactics KS: Antler games developed a 1 vs many game. The solo "player" community backed the project only to be able to comment, and started to withdraw pledges once the game developer clarified no Solo mode was planned. The result? Antler games rushed an artificial co-op solo mode and made it available, to save over half of what is their amounted pledged total. They are likely going to be over 1.5 years late admittedly because of the solo content. Not only that, they announced plans for a "second campaign" which motivation seems to be only to appeal back to the backers that were outraged that the game had no solo mode - maybe this time they will back In conslusion, many games are forced to offer an artificial solo mode to sell more - other products ommit any game mode completely and focus on puzzle/story/art, and do very well with solo only content.. so yeah, this is about selling mainly. A few of us ranting here doesn't mean this product will fail to new audience Let it be said though, I think these products may be great I just don't like them and it's a shame we are left with no new competitive dungeon crawler for years now

I think I am the most dissapointed of all. It seems that in the internet, I am the only one who doesn't like solo ("co-op") products? With my group of 10+ players it's actually fine, we stay competitive and have great time in many different games, we tried and rejected puzzle products What really baffles me is how they forced a Co-op puzzle only product at this point , where we have over 5 years with no real alternative to Descent 2ed? I mean this puzzle they're pulling out will compete with Gloomhaven, Frosthaven, Etherfields, Tainted Grail, Middara, and even with their own product: LoTR Journeys in middle earth! This could only make sense if they're planning for a real Descent 3rd ed...