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Time for another chill stream playing some Slay The Spire, working on a clear for The Ironclad before chipping away at The Silent. So let's hop right in and Strike at the Heart of the Spire!
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Slay the Spire is a combination of roguelike-like gameplay with a deck-building card game. At the start of a playthrough the player selects one of several predetermined characters, which sets a starting amount of health, gold, and an initial deck of cards with basic attack and defense cards. The goal is to work through several levels of a spire, each level having a number of potential encounters distributed in a branching structure with a boss character at the end of the level. Encounters include monsters, campfires to heal or upgrade cards to more powerful versions, shopkeepers to buy cards and potions as well as to remove cards from the deck, chests with random loot, and random choice-based encounters. The available cards that the player may earn are set by the choice of character, and color-coded to aid in identification. During early access, two characters were available, one whose cards were aimed for direct attacks with weapons and defense, while the other was built around skills, buffs, and debuffs.
Monster combat encounters are turn-based. Each turn, the player is dealt a number of cards from their deck (reshuffling the discard pile as needed), and some energy points. Each card has an energy point cost, and the player can play as many cards as they want their turn as long as they have the energy or cards to play. The monsters will telegraph their intended action, and if an attack, how strong that attack will be, allowing the player to determine the best strategy of cards to play. Cards generally fall into four types: attack cards that deal damage to one or more monsters, defense cards that add a number of block points for that turn only, skill cards that may damage or debuff foes or buff the character, and power cards that grant a temporary buff for the remainder of the current battle. Buffs and debuffs can affect a character's strength, vulnerability to damage, and other aspects. Monsters can apply similar buffs and debuffs, and in some cases, can attack the player that add unplayable "Wound" or "Curse" cards to their deck. Once the turn is over the player discards all cards in their hand and lose all energy and block points, starting the next turn anew, though special items can affect this gameplay mechanic.
If the player's health drops to zero, the game is over and they must restart from the bottom of the spire. Otherwise, if the player defeats all the monsters in an encounter, they typically receive gold and a choice of one of three randomly-selected cards to add to their deck, if desired. Other loot that can be obtained from monsters or other encounters include trinkets that provide a permanent character buff for the duration of the game, and single-use potions that can be used during any turn for no cost to restore health, buff a character, or damage the enemy.
The deck-building game requires players to develop a strategy for their deck on the fly based on the cards they can obtain from loot. Like other deck-building, too many weak cards or the unplayable Wound cards dilute the player's deck, and the player must strategically decide which cards are the best fit to make the deck effective, when to turn down additions of cards, or when to spend money to remove cards as to maximize the deck's strength.
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