It's really amazing how the game unfolds as you play, there is so much depth in the decision-making from every micro and macro choice, that leads to your victory or defeat. It was incredibly enjoyable to learning the game and climbing to Ascension 20.

Overview:
The game starts with just one character, but as you play, you will unlock 3 more, each with a unique card pool (and relics). Each run starts fresh with a fairly basic deck, just some Strike and Defends, plus one or two character specific cards, but as the run progresses you get more cards, upgrade cards, and relics. Relics provide passive bonuses, some which require more skillful play, as you manipulate the counters on them. There's a fun risk reward between taking harder combats for more relics, using the rest spots for upgrading cards instead of healing, etc. Learning the behaviors of each enemy ingrains them in your brain, and as you learn the challenges you can make better decisions for each run. Eventually winning a run, then winning on each character, then doing a run collecting all the keys to face the true final boss, and getting a true victory. Then climbing each progressive difficulty Ascension, all the way to 20. That's the experience of Slay the Spire, I'm looking forward to completing A20 with the other characters now, and going for the few remaining achievements.

Other than that, I'm just really looking forward to what this team can do with Slay the Spire 2, this is the best $25 you can spend, buy the game, and have fun. It may take a couple runs to click, but it has a very enticing gameplay loop, letting you build crazy combo decks.

It's really amazing how the game unfolds as you play, there is so much depth in the decision-making from every micro and macro choice, that leads to your victory or defeat. It was incredibly enjoyable to learning the game and climbing to Ascension 20. Overview: The game starts with just one character, but as you play, you will unlock 3 more, each with a unique card pool (and relics). Each run starts fresh with a fairly basic deck, just some Strike and Defends, plus one or two character specific cards, but as the run progresses you get more cards, upgrade cards, and relics. Relics provide passive bonuses, some which require more skillful play, as you manipulate the counters on them. There's a fun risk reward between taking harder combats for more relics, using the rest spots for upgrading cards instead of healing, etc. Learning the behaviors of each enemy ingrains them in your brain, and as you learn the challenges you can make better decisions for each run. Eventually winning a run, then winning on each character, then doing a run collecting all the keys to face the true final boss, and getting a true victory. Then climbing each progressive difficulty Ascension, all the way to 20. That's the experience of Slay the Spire, I'm looking forward to completing A20 with the other characters now, and going for the few remaining achievements. Other than that, I'm just really looking forward to what this team can do with Slay the Spire 2, this is the best $25 you can spend, buy the game, and have fun. It may take a couple runs to click, but it has a very enticing gameplay loop, letting you build crazy combo decks.