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Slay the Spire is a 2019 Card & Board Game, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Indie, Turn-based Strategy, Adventure game rated 9.2/10 from 218.1k ratings, with a main story of about 12h, available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One.
Aww Amazing!: 9.2/10 across 218.1k ratings. This score says: bump it to the top of your backlog.
Leans into Card & Board Game, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, with a main story around 12h. Check if that style and time commitment fit you.
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Slay the Spire takes some of the best parts of deckbuilding games, roguelikes, and dungeon crawlers, and mixes them into a wholly new and extremely satisfying package.
Read full review ↗Genres combine with beautiful precision in a game that offers simple pleasures and terrifying depths.
Read full review ↗A strategically deep deckbuilder that, with any luck, has spawned a brilliant new subgenre.
Read full review ↗Roguelites teach their lessons in often devastating ways, and Slay the Spire is no different. Each new run can feel punishing and, at times, unfair. It wasn’t until I learned how to trim the fat and come up with counterintuitive deck ideas that I really started falling in love with the game.
Read full review ↗An incredibly well-crafted dungeon delve with hundreds of hours of crawling chaos
Read full review ↗Unleash your inner warrior and wreak havoc in this deck-building game's series of exhilarating face-offs, now available for Apple devices
Read full review ↗Slay the Spire is an endlessly addictive roguelike card-battler that’s a perfect fit for the Switch; a beautifully balanced game that’s arrived on Nintendo’s system with all the benefits of an extended period of Early Access on PC.
Read full review ↗On the surface, Mega Crit's weird blend of rogue-like and card game might seem like a simple dungeon-crawler with some deck-building mechanics thrown in. But, as you dive deeper beneath the surface, and really start to flesh out the complexities tied into each deck, you’ll find an entirely new world of mechanics to learn and master as you try your best to survive each encounter and eventually slay the Spire.
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