‘Slay the Spire: The Board Game’ – Your Favorite Card Game Video Game is Now a Card Game
Thanks to Slay The Spire: The Board Game, we’ve come full circle of deck builders being cards games, turned video games, turned card games.
If you want to take it even further beyond, you can try out the Tabletop Simulator module to play the card game video game board game video game. Anyway, now that Slay the Spire 2 has been announced, and the board game is starting to make the rounds, let’s take a closer at Slay the Spire: The Board Game.
Slay The Spire: The Board Game Overview
It probably goes without saying that the board game version of Slay The Spire translates really easily to physical media. In fact, if you’ve played Slay The Spire, I really don’t need to explain anything. It translates so well, I’d bet anything you could jump in and start playing with zero instruction. At most, you’d need some guidance on setting up a battle and how rewards are dished out. But that’s literally about it.
If you’ve never played Slay the Spire, I highly recommend it, if you like card games. It’s a solo dungeon-crawling adventure where you start with a boring deck of mediocre cards. But through battles and random events gain stronger cards, upgraded cards and powerful relics. There are multiple classes, each with their own style of play and unique mechanics.
As you climb the map tree, you’ll get closer to the boss. Bosses are tough and dish out a ton of damage. But they offer greater rewards as you move into the next Act.
Slay The Spire Together
The board game version is cooperative multiplayer. Battle is set up in rows. Each player is set on their own row. At battle setup, a random enemy card is drawn for each row. Many enemies will spawn additional enemies to fill their row. While players can attack enemies in any row, enemies will attack the player in their row.
Enemies will have either a static attack they do each round, determine their attack by a dice roll, or have a set pattern to their attacks.
When all enemies are defeated, players gain the rewards for their row of enemies. This is often drawing 3 random cards from their personal Rewards deck and choosing 1 to add to their deck. Occationally, a player will find a Golden Ticket reward, which allows them to draw a rare card to add to their reward options.
Similarly, bosses, elite enemies, shops, and treasure rooms will allow players to gain additional powerful rewards, like potions, rare cards, and relics.
If, at any point, any player drops to 0 hit points, all players lose. It’s a team game, after all! But if the players defeat the boss, they can count that as a win or move on to Act 2 and fight harder enemies and bosses.
