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At $20 I felt I’d had more than my money’s worth, but I figured that was it. So after eight games, I had won with all three classes.
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When The Defect became available, I tried it and won on the third try. What more was there to do? I saw some talk of trying to win *more consistently*, and there was the option to use ‘Ascension’ to make the game harder, but I did not see the appeal in either approach. I assumed I was fortunate to win so fast, but it seemed powerful things would come my way reasonably often.Īt that point, I stopped playing. Once again, there was a learning curve, but once again it didn’t seem that hard, and on my second try I got all the way through. Rogelike games are supposed to be way harder than that! I put it up to a lot of luck and a lot of deckbuilding game experience, and moved on to the second character class, The Outcast. In my third run, I managed to get all the way through and win. At first things were tough, but a little experience went a long way. I played my first few games as The Ironclad. The game was in (earlier) early access, so a bunch of the details were different, but aside from missing the third class (The Defect) the game was largely the same as it is now. I started off knowing the basics above, but nothing else. My Mostly-Spoiler-Free Journey Through the Spire
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I highly recommend playing the game, and I highly recommend not learning more or reading further before doing so. As you gain in skill and experience, you play it on additional levels and in new ways. If you die, that’s it, time to start over.Įarly plays ideally involve discovery of what cards are out there, what decks are possible to assemble, what enemies there are and what they do, and everything else the spire has to offer. Each turn of each battle, you see what the enemy is going to do, and by default you have three energy to spend on any combination of five drawn cards, to prepare to block their attacks while dealing damage back. Each game, you work your way up the spire, with each room an opportunity to improve your deck, either with rewards from battle or other opportunities. When I wrote that Artifact was the most fun I’ve had gaming in a long time, the only alternative to give me pause was Slay the Spire. Spoiler-Free Bottom Line: Slay the Spire is an amazing single-player roguelike deckbuilding game.