There's no better card game... than Slay The Spire.

[@underthemayo]

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[@dfuzesavetf2147]

I've played It a lot, especially on my phone, fav hero is the Ironclad for sure followed by the Silent shortly after. He's got some cards that allow you to obtain thousandths of strength and block, has prominent health regen with his relic and reaper and being able to exhaust cards in your deck is so handy for nasty status, curse or unwanted cards.

[@evilotis01]

it's one of the games in the sacred pantheon of "Games I Had to Delete Because It Was Taking Up All My Time". this is a compliment, if that wasn't clear

[@kvikram19]

It’s an amazing game to play on the iPad. Reached Asc 20 for two characters. Shame you don’t get mods on the iPad though.

[@JohnMacFrutt]

Ironclad for sure. Watching you skip the Body Slam into Entrench into Armaments right at the start hurt my soul, because Barricade decks are among my favourite :D But I have long gone down the rabbit hole of poorly translated chinese mods to keep the sense of wonder and discovery, even after playing the game inside and out

[@underthemayo]

@@JohnMacFrutt body slam builds are beast

[@Super787B]

For people new to the game, make sure to turn on the speed up animations option, it makes the game feel far more fluid!

[@Thonato420]

this shit helped me a lot tysm

[@CrungySpungus]

This. It makes everything feel so much more punchy.

[@quiggsy8571]

I just started playing this 2 days ago and I'm hopelessly addicted.

[@exudeku]

Me, watching this video while waiting the 1-hour loading time of Modded Slay the Spire with 50 mods: *The Mayo blessed my notifications once again*

[@Jack-cz4zz]

Lmao me and my mate were playing this all through the weekend cause it went free on ps+ and now mayo makes a video on it lets go

[@shannon3362]

I'm in the same boat as you brother, LETS GO

[@adiveler]

You know that it's also a good tactic to get your deck as small as possible and get rid of weaker cards, in order to make sure that your better cards are getting drawn more often?

[@current9300]

I will shamelessly recommend one of my recent faves, Erannorth Chronicles. It's not a roguelike, but rather a sandbox card game RPG that is closest to 90s Magic: The Gathering Shandalar PC-game anyone has ever made since.

[@RoryStarr]

I picked this up on PS+ and decided to just try a round of something I assumed I wouldn't like. Anyways, I played it until 2 am and starting forcing friends to play it. I cannot explain why it works so well, but it does.

[@Bird-md5xz]

It's the first of It's kind and one of the older roguelites out there.

[@DisappointedBuddha]

This game nearly made me fail my degree and killed any potential I had to study at honours/masters level. 10/10 would recommend

[@MeekAndBackFirE]

hahaha.

[@mondragon9282]

Revisiting a month later. I gave this game a shot after I watched this video, and it has become my most played game. I just finally unlocked the 4th character. One of these days I'll actually beat the whole thing.

[@YTRingoster]

Before trying this game last year, i had basically zero experience with card and strategy games. Now I'm 250 hours in and *still* having fun! There's a LOT of randomness, and that can be frustrating, but it also makes it addicting. In a way, this game teaches you to prepare for uncertainty, and to make the most of the hand that you're dealt (literally).

[@plaguedoctor2286]

And there goes another game recommendation of yours that I loved. Bought StS a few weeks ago and I'm already with all the unlocks and working hard on the achievements, then I plan to look into the mods. Seriously Mayo, never stop making videos of indie games like these, they are my favourites to play nowadays.

[@drob4812]

Hello Mayo! On your Forgive me Father video I asked for your recommandation between Doom 2016 and the game you reviewed in the video and now that I played trough 2016 and FMF I can say I enjoyed the latter more. I think that my playing doom eternal first made an impact on my overall strategies in video games. Unfortunately, I find that 2016 doesn't offer the conditions necessary for adapting and using different strategies, you could play the game with the gauss canon and ssg only, unlike Forgive me father where you have to adapt even on lower difficulties. I do think that the story of 2016 is better then eternal's and I'm not a fan of ID turning Dr. Samuel Hayden into an alien boss fight. I liked him more just as a cyborg. Thanks for the recomandation, Mayo.

[@bruhder5854]

2016 has better lore and world while eternal has better gameplay.

[@drob4812]

@@bruhder5854 indeed.

[@underthemayo]

2016 was a very important stepping stone towards the new standard

[@SupremeRTS]

This is one of my favorite games to play after getting bored of all my other games

[@krimsonkartoffel]

I just got this game about a month ago, its been a blast! I really like all the characters, they feel very unique. I like your little walk through of some fights n such, great insight to your thought process, which is the most important part of games like this (turn based) Previously, i played a game that was directly inspired by this one called Night of the Full Moon, where you play as little red riding hood and try to save your grandma from the forest. But she has different classes, i think 8 in all, and they are each as fleshed out as the classes from slay the spire. Enemies are also varied, but every fight is a 1v1. Its fun. Honestly, i feel that is greatly expands the formula, even if it is more forgiving at face value.

[@GFMarine]

I detest card and rogue like games, but you've pretty much convinced me to try this out, it's on gamepass so it won't hurt to take a look.

[@en4crcdn]

Love the game. Still trying to beat a20 with Silent. Can't seem to beat 2nd A3 boss. Each character has interesting builds to explore which makes the game highly replayable. Great overview!

[@cheeseoncrackers4503]

Mate your timing is great, you upload this a couple days after I finally decided to give it a go, I've been enjoying it so far. Keen to see your thoughts!

[@mohnishverma]

Never played a card game, but I'll definitely give it a try!

[@mohnishverma]

@Hen Peckley does it go on sale on steam?

[@teardrops9591]

@@mohnishverma yes, mainly during big event sales

[@mohnishverma]

@@teardrops9591 well I'll have to wait until then cause I'm really tight on budget!

[@vadim_65rus]

There's another game like this - Griftlands. From the creators of Don't Starve, Griftlands takes a lot of inspirations from slay the spire, however has a lot more unique (for a card game) features

[@redford4ever]

It also can't really pass the 100h of play time. Slay the Spire handles thousands.

[@Twisted_Logic]

It seems like a lot of what you like about Slay the Spire is what I like about Bug Fables, the big dogference being that StS has its RNG in the cards and BF has its in the enemy's actions.

[@mondragon9282]

I've never had a big deck at any point in life. Must be why I'm not successful in much of anything.

[@thaynedye1292]

The mobile implementation is also really good. I only play StS on my phone now.

[@marqusrylander8666]

I'm a big fan of The Defect personally. Simply for the passive damage you get from the orbs, so I can focus on defense once I get an orb or two.

[@icebough4191]

Mayo Your niche in the video space Is unpacking game mechanics and what makes them compelling And you are the absolute best at it Again, thankyou for the perspective and recommendation Your recommendations never disappoint

[@thesmartesto3307]

If you enjoyed this, you've got to try Inscryption. It's another deck builder card game, which while I'm not gonna say it's just more Slay The Spire, I won't ignore their similarities either. It's main gameplay also revolves around knowing what the enemie's gonna do and preparing for it.

[@bruhder5854]

That's really not a rogue game imo. It's more of a linear story game with elements of randomness thrown in the mix.

[@bjornelkuf9306]

@@bruhder5854 there is a rogue like mode, You have to beat the game to unlock it though.

[@mrteamSSG]

You have to try "Inscryption". Right now one of the most addicting card games and i never liked card games. Its indie game recently released but its truly a gem, like Loop Hero

[@bruhder5854]

It's not really a rogue game. It's a linear story game with elements of randomness thrown in the mix.

[@redford4ever]

There are several great games every year. Amongst those, there are nearly none - especially single player ones- with chess like replayability. Slay the Spire is brilliant on many aspect - UI, first 3 minutes, first hour, soundtrack, even its signature graphic design, obviously gameplay but what's really puts it in a league of its own is how infinitely deep the game is. Top players have thousands of hours in the game and they're not forcing it. Great multiplayer games have the same kind of depth but they have to resort to more conservative possibilities so that they stay balanced. The single player nature of StS opens much more possibilities in game design - instead of fighting player's effort at breaking the game, StS embraces that trope and breaking the game is often the game itself at high level. There are even cards openly designed for that (to create infinites) in shops if you know what to do with them. Yet the game is impressively balanced and always challenging. This is a game worth investing time in it in a way maybe no other single player game ever was.

[@flyingdragon1973]

Easily the most addicting game in my Steam library and I have yet to complete a full run with any of the characters. I really wanna unlock the Watcher!

[@gnarface3831]

This is the exact type of video I want to see when looking to buy a game. I watch reviews but don't care what they say about the game. Someone explaining the gameplay loop while sharing their excitement for it is all I need to see

[@Aggronize]

the touhou character deck is still my favorite. You can either go full offense or full defense and she's a bit wild either way. I love the mods for this game. Some of the custom character decks are just so good.

[@xXDeiviDXx]

hi Mayo, if you want to try a refreshing take on the roguelike genre there's a game called Risk Of Rain 2, a 3d third person shooter where movement, map knowledge, enemy prioritization and time management (because difficulty increases the longer you spend on the run) are key to staying alive, it also features 15(?) different selectable characters that all have varied playstyles and abilities.

[@itsraventm]

funny, i got back into slay the spire like last week. good timing

[@michaelstevenson8272]

claims to be one of his favorite games, adds clash to a deck with carnage and dropkick! Anyways I was hoping to see some more discussion on what you liked about the game. For me this game has one of the best difficulty curves in gaming. At first you just do things because it is fun, and it works. Then your meta knowledge gets to the point where you start targeting builds, and it works. Then to improve you start reacting to what RNG the game gives you in card rewards and relics. And finally you incorporate all of that into building decks that can handle all the ways the game challenges you. I believe it is theoretically possible to beat every game on the highest difficulty but even the best players are only winning about 30-40 percent of the time (that may have changed, I haven't gotten into the game for around a year)

[@bruhder5854]

It's not possible to beat every game on the hardest. Hades for instance, has flexible difficulty options known as heat. If you turn up all of them at once and do a max heat run, you won't win because the game was never intended to be won that way. Even today the only completed max heat runs there are, are via cheats and mods.

[@michaelstevenson8272]

@@bruhder5854 StS has much greater randomness though, doubling or tripping ever enemy's hp and damage would certainly make the game harder but would also leave certain seeds where you don't get the correct cards or relics impossible. The point about every game seed being theoretically solvable is that every failure is in some way your fault. Maybe the mistake that killed you was taking the wrong path or whale bonus at the start of the game. The harder the game gets the more a person has to think about the entire rest of the run on every decision in order to be successful. But the game remains fun through the learning process to mastery. Hades being impossible at full heat is more on the skill execution side of difficulty, it also does difficulty really well but it is testing something different.

[@bruhder5854]

@@michaelstevenson8272 it's not really a skill issue in hades max heat, it's the randomness and the time limit. Choices between boons are gone so build is complete rng. Enemies have much higher hp on top of 0 dmg shields and extra abilities that may recharge those 0 dmg shields instantly. All that with big maps and 5 mins time limit per zone, it becomes impossible. If you had some control over your build at all, it could be possible but as is, it's a 1 way build only which, given how certain boons are just bad for certain weapons just makes it not doable.

[@oktond4880]

Hey, Mayo, have you played Black Book? It is also a card game and a lot of what you like about StS is actually there too, stuff like information about enemy attacks, no random misses, variety of effects. There's a lot of builds you can make, from straightforward damage or poisoning enemies when you take a hit to stacking debuffs and dealing damage for each stack in one late attack. There is also a variety in fights themselves: some are timed, some are puzzles with a fixed set of cards where you have to figure out the right combination, some have enemies that you don't want to kill for plot reasons. It's not as addictive since it is plot-focused campaign and not a roguelike (although something like that was added as a DLC), but the plot is nice and the setting of slavic mythology is quite unique and fresh. I have never been a fan of card games, but I completed this one with great pleasure and will probably play it again once later. Maybe you should try it

[@egotisticcommando8754]

I love all your videos man, if you enjoy slay the spire I cannot recommend monster train more I know you'll love it.

[@Flo-zj9tg]

Have you played inscryption? If you haven’t please give it a try. I’d love to see you make a video on that game.

[@FabianSandovalElbianfas]

Damn mayo!! I Just started playing this game Last weekend and i fucking love it!! You should try deck building Games, like start realms but this game is the king hands down

[@Dozer22334]

At first glance on thumbnail I thought it was Aquanox 1. You know, all the greens, and transparency...

[@HunterForHire422]

I played my first run when it went free, enjoyed my time till i eventually died, saw the slow burn of level ups and unlocks and promptly stopped. it looks and plays great but I no longer wanna play these kind of games anymore. I've stopped having fun with rougelikes and games of the like where I'm resetting most of my progression each run as it's grown more frustrating then exciting.

[@SwSAS1786]

Best explanation of this game I’ve seen. Well done!

[@sirbaconbuster]

Friends, Steam, and even Apple now have relentlessly recommended this game to me for a while. (I like digital card games like Eternal) I played it for half an hour today (died on the first major boss) I can confirm it is phenomenal. I remembered seeing this video in my recommended section a couple of days ago and immediately came to watch it. Can confirm everything said. The game is just plain good. Go try it.

[@k338914]

_Black Book_ be like: "you know, i'm something of a slay-the-spire myself"

[@stravvman]

6:16 This game has input randomness tho

[@bruhder5854]

Haven't had much experience with card games but been big into strategy and rogue games so I decided to try it. Having beaten the heart once with the silent, I personally don't see much in this game. Low cards decks aren't that great for high difficulty and it costs you money to remove cards. The same money you could use to buy a relic or a potion to help you. Battles are too rng dependent. Even when you miticolously take/remove cards for a specific reason, you can still get starting cards that don't help you at all and you end up dying simply because of bad rng. There's no inherit shuffle system nor a weighted distribution for types of cards or any sort of redundancy in place that could help you in those situations. Cards have a lot of balance issues where some are just better and the worse ones end up clogging up space. I'd wish it balanced those shit cards around something unique instead (something like the self destruction button from into the breach where it had its own specific play style). Overall, at least for me, it was an alright game but not something I'd play again after finishing it once.

[@fefo1945]

I strongly recommend you reconsider this, the game is way deeper and more complicated than it seems, a good player can beat Ascension 0 with their eyes closed, there's way less rng that you might first think, and the best strategies to win are very much not obvious at first, I found myself completely switching up my playstyle on every character once I hit Ascension 10-ish and since then my runs have been way more consistent and skill dependant Of course rng will always be a decently big factor, but what determines a good player in this game, like for most rogue-likes, is their ability to get the most out of a sub-par run

[@dfuzesavetf2147]

There's the Slay the Spire video...finally.

[@noxfortes]

I played and enjoyed Slay The Spire but another game called Blood Card really started to pave the way to me liking this style of card game. Maybe people should give it a try.

[@crozraven]

I would say recent "Griftlands" & "Tainted Grail Conquest" comes pretty close to the addictive level of Slay The Spire. Although it could be argued that both are much slower pacing game by having heavier story elements throughout its run. It's also a much more demanding game (Tainted Grail), especially with many loading times.

[@SarkisovK111]

Another great example of an awesome turn-based game that gives you ALL the necessary information to win without any RNG is Into The Breach. Check it out!

[@DarklordKermit77]

Loving the more frequent uploads

[@pyl0ri440]

Thank-you ! There's no better card game... than Slay The Spire...

[@mrblooper1994]

This game is a must have on the phone android/iOS. It's well optimized and fairly priced.

[@carloss7655]

I've been waiting for this video a long time. So excited to watch!

[@icebergthegamer]

I picked this up on pc a few years ago. Aside from shooters, I rarely game on PC. This means I didn’t spend a lot of time with this game on pc. During the shutdown caused by the pandemic, I found out this dropped on iOS. 600 hours later…..yea you get the point lol. This game is incredible. It’s insanely difficult, especially at higher ascensions, and trying to kill the real boss. Great game, I highly recommend it.

[@ClarkKentai]

It was only ever on the original Xbox, but I wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts on Phantom Dust.

[@samuelwhite0700]

This looks interesting! If your also looking for some good turn based games, there is a game called "World of Horror" and is a horror turned based, rouge like and it's pretty fun

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

If Hand Of Fate 3 takes notes from slay the spire, that game could be absolutely insane, as the combat in that game is really fun, it's just buried beneath tons of rng, and extremely grindy procedural content.

[@Rainbowhawk1993]

Just bought this for mobile a few days ago. Can't stop playing now.

[@derpyefalant478]

Yo, you make me want to ascend Ironclad now; been on a Defect grind.

[@Dootteh318]

"I don't know anything about card based games but this is the best card based game"

[@underthemayo]

That's it!

[@anders_x3]

playing the bash was actually a misplay. you only did 2 extra damage and you knew you would draw 3 strike cards next turn anyway, which is lethal. so might as well block.

[@underthemayo]

not trying to show perfection. Just what playing generally looks like

[@mominbutt7077]

So good, I actually downloaded it a few days ago

[@ZackKoutaRoxas]

Slay The Spire is in my top ten games! A few hundred hours in it and still play all the time. Pro tip for any new players: After you're used to it, go into the settings and enabled "Fast Animations".

[@dfuzesavetf2147]

So glad that you like this game as much as I do bro.

[@AvanToor]

Here's a little tip for new players: experiment! You're never going to recreate "that one run where I almost beat the game".

[@InReserveProductions]

I hate card games normally, but I remember seeing a stream of Slay the Spire about four years ago and thought it looked like one of the coolest things I'd seen. All that praise and I still haven't bought it...

[@manspetersson2415]

You should try Monster train a bit less rng, a LOT of upgrades and CRAZY Combos

[@derekdrake8706]

*"Always remember to Flex, it's free."* Wise words indeed.

[@colonelstabby]

Tainted Grail: Conquest, seriously check it out!

[@patrykzukowski7471]

Have you played Dicey Dungeons? You really can't say that Slay The Spire is the best card game if you haven't tried Dicey Dungeons. It's beyond amazing and seeing as you look at games on a deep level I think you'll appretiate a lot about the game.

[@creviosso9216]

inscryption is like an atmospheric slay the spire with a lot of weird twists, really recommend it

[@UnlimitedSithLordTCG]

This game is life...it sucks you on till nothing else matters

[@gregunderwood4679]

Sts and hades have been my fav games of the past 5 years.

[@SuperT380]

I picked up Slay the Spire for the first time about 3 or 4 years ago and found myself coming back to it fairly often even after I felt like I had done or seen everything in it I had wanted. Last year while trying desperately to fill the gap that it had eventually left after playing for literal hundreds of hours between PC, Switch and eventually the Mobile version; I ended up stumbling upon another Rogue-like card game called Monster Train and with it's cast of characters and vastly bigger amounts of deck varieties that accompany them compared to Slay the Spire I think it has beaten out StS as my favorite Deck-Builder Rogue-like. If you or anyone here wants to change it up a little bit from StS at any point I cannot recommend Monster Train enough

[@ishanagarwal475]

Got the game for 3 dollars on steam today will play it after my exams.

[@GrailSeeker]

I'm also not a big fan of turn-based combat and card games. In fact, you can say I hate them. But I can highly recommend Thronebreaker: A Witcher Tale. After watching your review I think you might also like it.

[@vexonet5810]

Yesss. I love this game and i always hoped u make a vid about this game

[@randallduncan6261]

I love your content keep up the AMAZING work!!!!

[@LuciferHunter-kt7pm]

I keep hearing about this game. I generally stay away from card based games because I suck. I bought Griftlands but don’t know what I’m doing. Maybe I’ll try this one.

[@AA-ze4pn]

I was in a similar boat like you, never really been engaged by turn based or strategy games considering I came from and still mainly stick to fps's. But inscryption had completely changed that, completely hooked me in and I couldn't stop playing I heavily recommend it, curious about your opinion on it.

[@bjornelkuf9306]

That one's a gem.

[@daveo7356]

LOL, he doesn't know about Vault of the Void.

[@thenameismary4874]

When you're starting out there's so many cards that the game purposely tricks you into using because they sound good and then you have 300 hours and you notice that all of them are bad incredibly rewarding in a weird way

[@PoissonedApple1]

Inscryption my dude

[@rjculliford]

Nice vid. One of my favourite games!

[@Busenlilly]

If Mayo says that the game is good-it‘s probably pretty fucking good.

[@drob4812]

Have you played Iinscryption? I played the demo 2 years ago and I thought it was pretty fun. From what I remember it's similar to this game. You might want to give it a try.

[@iphatbass]

I love DEFECT! He is most fun hero to play!!!

[@Eric_Nomad_Hixtone]

There is... Inscription. And Gwent story are good

[@abcbizarre]

seems like a good game for the steam deck

[@sullysosavage365]

She only likes me for my slightly above average deck

[@sprung4776]

You should really try Inscryption. That Games is insanely good

[@TheRausing1]

I really enjoyed sts at first, but because of the complexity and difficulty, once I had learned how to play with the ironclad, I just couldn’t be bothered to have to re-learn a different characters cards, so I always ended up just playing ironclad until I got bored of the game.

[@gaurd3]

No there is not. Monster train is pretty damn good as well.

[@tomtommerson6320]

You ever played Dead Cells?

[@ultgamercw6759]

Love slay the spire but I personally like Inscription more.

[@ArsenAcero]

Hey mayo can you do video on painkiller ? I'm sure you would like the game, very doom like

[@jerondiovis6128]

Actually, there is a better game. Griftlands. It's a pinnacle of a genre. Same mechanics, same great balance and potential for crazy combination and builds - and PLUS much much more. Highly recommended to everyone who likes deck builder games.

[@udidoudi7352]

amazing video

[@melancholyman369]

Is THeRe A styLe SystEm tHo?!

[@MyzticF]

You think this'd be a simple quirky card game when you get into it, but next thing you know, you're 300 hours into the game, seeking for infinite decks and extremely niche builds, and trying to improve your winrate in the highest difficulty. You're not going to be disappointed, just buy the game.