Slay the Spire

Slay the spire may be my top game of all time, simply because it scratches so many itches that I have as a strategy gamer — drafting strategy, long-term decisions, interesting tactical mechanics which combine in unique ways on each run, and progression through learning rather than grinding. Slay the Spire seems very difficult when you first start it, but as you learn how to draft and pilot your runs, things become easier and easier until you're winning every run on the base difficulty. That kind of dramatic skill progression in a game feels very rare, because most games will also progress your character with some kind of meta improvements in your strength, and it's hard to tell how much better you are at the game compared to when you started. Learning how to build insane combos, increase your tempo, crush the bosses and beat the hardest elite fights in the game is incredibly rewarding and feels amazing. This game just keeps giving more and more as you ascend the difficultly levels, and you begin to question the assumptions that brought you to this point and rethink the way you play the game completely. 5 stars is not enough.

As other reviewers said, this game start nice and addictive to slowly (not so for me...) sank in frustration, desperation and loss of hair. I own this game on Steam (but I assume same gameplay). I'll not go into the details of the game mechanics (too lazy to do that) but I'll explain the simple reasons why I feel this game is frustrating and brought me to baldness: 1. When you die (and you will die bloody too often) you start always with nothing more than... nothing. -- This alone, after a few deaths, will be taxing and having you need a coffee. 2. Many things are RNG based: map, loot, monsters, hits, etc. -- This can easily create borderline unwinnable situations that, obviously, for common men, means doom. And that's it. Repeat the above ad infinitum and you will have a perfect combo of a addictive, frustrating game. Now, personally, I'm much more easily frustrated than addicted so I binned the game and living an happy life.

We have a too easy and a too hard so I'll pipe in and say it's just right! ;) If you just play one or two runs you might think the game is impossible... but once you unlock a few things and figure out how the cards work together you'll be winning enough and losing enough to keep it interesting. Especially if you turn on the mode where it gets progressively harder for a character every time you beat it with that carachter. There are 4 characters and each has several themes you can make a viable run with. Yes card draws are a bit random but with the pick 1 of 3 style they have you can usually come up with a viable strategy most runs. As with any of this style of game there will be times you get screwed by random chance... but if that turns you away then anything that says "roguelike" in the description is probably something you should avoid. If you have any fondness for deck builders and roguelikes, then this is a very very solid game.

and is one of my favorite roguelik(t)es, very simillar to into the breach as your main objective is to avoid the intention of your enemies while attacking at the same time, also has A LOT of customization like ITB and very interesting daily challenges

This game really good. The Replayability and variety is very fun and you dont feel as you are overpowered with a pretty god power creep balance.