Slay the Spire How to Play and Strategy Tips!

[@greekfest5042]

Really enjoyed your content! Very helpful, well-explained, and very informative. Good job on explaining everything! Out of all the content out there, yours was awesome.

[@Luke_L]

Appreciate the good info. This has been the most helpful “how to play” for Slay the Spire that I’ve come across. Thanks!

[@rollingdoubles7031]

@@Luke_L Thank you so much and hope you enjoy the game!

[@kosterix123]

0:50 it's worth mentioning that you're not guaranteed to gain something just after you die, you do actually need to proceed further than when you last died. Which can, and will, frustrate players unfamiliar with it or people with less of an attention span or sense of holistic approach. Compare this to Dead Cells, where you gain cells just by proceeding through the dungeon, and you get to spend those cells, the sense of progress is far more concrete and satisfying. In StS, there are no rooms, just a few npc's and very flatlined, no lore, no story, it's all very random and uncertain whether or not you unlock anything. If it were a video game such effortless experience would be only wasted time, but in a board game the teardown and subsequent setup is far more time wasted and feels more depressing than in a vg.

[@rathma1]

Un the rule book the boss relic deck you draw number of players +1 so in a 2 player you draw 3 and each player can decide which one to pick.

[@rollingdoubles7031]

Thanks, this has been corrected in the Klingon subtitles!

[@kansaskyle]

Thanks for the overview! There are few rules things to clarify. You start with 0 coins and gain 3 from Neow's Blessing. The blue, yellow, and purple cubes are for the Defect. if you use them for character block and energy trackers, you'll short change the Defect on orbs. No issue if the Defect isn't in play. The black cubes are for Ascension 2. The purple orbs are the Defect's darkness orbs. At the Merchant, I've never seen it played where you can buy cards from another player's card rewards deck; however, the rules state you can help another player buy something if they are short on gold. On the Boss relic reward, you reveal relics for each player +1.

[@rollingdoubles7031]

Great catch on the coins, I've added a correction in the captions to reflect that. Regarding cards, we've used the "Cards from Other Characters" rules to manage that, but in 99.9% of cases we've only bought our own cards anyway. It may be a misapplication of the rules, but there's nothing prohibiting it and it's kind of a fun twist so we roll with it! 😁

[@yautjacetanu]

Feel like that wasn't a deep dive interested watcher just explanation. really want a real strategy deep dive