Slay the Spire
Slay the Spire is a single-player roguelike deck-building game. Players choose from four characters, each with a unique set of cards, and attempt to climb a procedurally generated spire consisting of multiple…
Slay the Spire is an adventure developed by Mega Crit Games, released 23 January 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. The main story takes about 49 hrs to finish.
What Slay the Spire is
Slay the Spire is an adventure game developed by Mega Crit Games and released in 2019. It was published by Humble Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on libGDX.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Slay the Spire is a 2019 roguelike deck-building game developed by the American indie studio Mega Crit. It was published by Mega Crit for its initial PC release and by Humble Bundle for home consoles and mobile platforms. The game was released in early access for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in late 2017, with an official release in January 2019. It was released for PlayStation 4 in May 2019, for Nintendo Switch in June 2019 and for Xbox One in August 2019. An iOS version was released in June 2020, with an Android version released in February 2021.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Slay the Spire holds a critic score of 93 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 24 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 549 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 49 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 295 hrs, roughly 6 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 Ghz, 2 GB RAM and 1Gb Video Memory, capable of OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Slay the Spire launched on 23 January 2019, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2, Apex Legends and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts III, Resident Evil 2, Apex Legends, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Slay the Spire yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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