Thanks for the review. As a huge fan of the Slay the Spire, I am curious, what other Slay the Spire like games do you like? I haven't really found a good replacement although I have tried a fair share of games.
I agree with you and haven't found many other decent ones. I've played many including stuff like
Arcanium (more Hearthstone like, but was OK) to
Gordian Quest (alright but too long for most playthroughs) to other stuff like
Breach Wanderers. They all had decent parts, but didn't quite give me my taste for a long running game I'm always willing to play.
One I did play a decent amount of was
Tainted Grail: Conquest. It has a good sense of adventure exploring the land (also makes playthroughs longer...could have been a few choices like Slay the Spire), but has a good amount of creatures and cards. This isn't perfect, but it was fun for my almost 20 hours of play time. It was really good and I had a fun time unlocking and trying to win with every character class. This is about a 7.5/10 in my book, which is good as I consider 7/10 games to be good, with 8 being great, 9 superb, and 10 close to perfect.
Roguebook is my other favorite I played a lot of with close to 26 hours in it. This one has excellent combo feeling gameplay, which shouldn't come as a surprise as Richard Garfield helped design it. This one has great exploration, cool characters and combos, and has a great difficulty with penalties you can choose to make it harder. I beat it about 10 times I think increasing the difficulty multiple times and generally choose the random 2 heroes gameplay. You only get 2, but you can do a lot with them. I don't think it gets enough praise, but it generally sells cheaper now and I wouldn't doubt it if it got bundled sometime this year. You should get the character DLC, as having more characters ups the variety immensely. 8/10.
If you or anyone else has any questions about most of the card based rogue lite deck building or not card games, I've likely played it so ask unless it's brand new. I bought that samurai card turn based strategy game and will try to play it in the next few days. Looks pretty neat.
Also Steam Next Fest let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.