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Slay the Spire

Slay the Spire is a deckbuilding roguelite where players construct a card deck through encounters and merchant purchases while climbing a procedurally arranged tower of rooms, bosses, and events. Four distinct characters each have entirely different deck archetypes, with synergy discovery being the core skill expression. It established many conventions now standard in the deckbuilding roguelite genre.

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Slay the Spire

Steam reviews

213,154 of 218,711 Steam user reviews are positive (97.5%) and Steam's own label is “Overwhelmingly Positive”, according to Steam's review summary for Slay the Spire at the last data refresh.

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Good for

  • Deckbuilding fans who want a tight, well-balanced system with high replayability
  • Players who enjoy finding unexpected card synergies over hundreds of distinct runs
  • Short session play — a full run takes 1–2 hours to complete

Avoid if

  • RNG variance in card rewards can prevent preferred archetypes from forming naturally
  • You want real-time combat rather than turn-based card-based encounters
  • Late-game Ascension difficulty levels require extensive knowledge of enemy attack patterns

Is Slay the Spire an indie game?

Yes. Steam lists Slay the Spire under the "Indie" genre, and its publisher is not on this site's major-publisher list.

  • Steam genre tags on record: Indie, Strategy — includes "Indie".
  • Developer: Mega Crit.
  • Publisher: Mega Crit — same as the developer, i.e. self-published; not on this site's major-publisher list.

The rubric, its limits and the publisher list: methodology.