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Slay the Spire

Slay the Spire

|United States|Card & Board Game, Role-playing (RPG)

9.2 /10

Aww Amazing!

Super hit!

218.1k ratings
Time to beat
Main
12h
Main + extras
49h
Complete
295h
Rating sources
Steam · Player score9.7/10217.5k ratingsIGDB · Critic score9.3/106 ratingsIGDB · Player score8.4/10528 ratings
OpenCritic · Critic score8.9/1056 ratings
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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.

Slay the Spire is a single-player roguelike deck-building game. Players choose from four characters, each with a unique set of cards, and attempt to climb a procedurally generated spire consisting of multiple floors of increasingly difficult enemies and bosses. Combat uses a card-based system where players build and refine their deck on the fly from rewards earned through encounters. Between battles, players collect relics that provide permanent buffs and make strategic choices about which paths to take, which cards to add or remove, and how to spend limited resources. The game is widely credited with popularizing the roguelike deck-building genre.

Game highlights
Rating momentum

Aww Amazing!: 9.2/10 across 218.1k ratings. This score says: bump it to the top of your backlog.

Play style

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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IGNTom Marks · 13 Feb, 2019
9/10

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.

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GameSpotChris Pereira · 9 Jul, 2020
9/10

It's easy to see why Slay the Spire has popularized a new blend of genres.

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EurogamerChristian Donlan · 29 Jan, 2019
8/10

Genres combine with beautiful precision in a game that offers simple pleasures and terrifying depths.

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PC GamerEvan Lahti · 24 Jan, 2019
9.2/10

A strategically deep deckbuilder that, with any luck, has spawned a brilliant new subgenre.

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PolygonJeff Ramos · 12 Feb, 2019

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.

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Game InformerDaniel Tack · 25 Jan, 2019
9.3/10

An incredibly well-crafted dungeon delve with hundreds of hours of crawling chaos

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GuardianSimon Parkin · 7 Aug, 2020
10/10

Unleash your inner warrior and wreak havoc in this deck-building game's series of exhilarating face-offs, now available for Apple devices

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Rock, Paper, ShotgunAlec Meer · 23 Jan, 2019

A drug I don’t want to quit. A miracle of design? Yeah, go on.

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Nintendo LifePJ O'Reilly · 6 Jun, 2019
9/10

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.

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ShacknewsJosh Hawkins · 30 Jan, 2019
9/10

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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