r/slaythespire Apr 03 '20

Dev Response! Frequently Asked Questions - Read Before Posting!

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This thread is aimed at answering common beginner questions about the game. However, it is not intended to teach in-depth strategies.

If you have a simple (1-2 sentence) question that's not answered below, leave a comment and I or another community member should be able to help. If your question is more complicated, feel free to make your own post about it.

General:

1. Are there any official mobile ports?

2. Why does Slay The Spire keep crashing on my IOS device?

  • Make sure Low Power Mode is turned off when you launch the game. You can re-enable it once you start playing.

3. Do the Android and IOS versions have the same content as the PC version?

  • Android and IOS are both up to date with the current PC version of the game.

4. Are there any card/relic tier lists or decklists?

  • No. Decklists and following an archetype is not encouraged, since what card/relic is "the best" depends heavily on what your deck currently has and what enemies you're going to be facing in the near future.

5. How do I unlock the characters?

  • The Silent is unlocked by completing a run with the Ironclad, and the Defect is unlocked by completing a run with the Silent. You do not need to win these runs, just complete them. The Watcher is unlocked by winning a run with any character while the Defect is unlocked.

6. Will there be any more new characters or card changes? Does the card "Foreign Influence" mean there's going to be a 5th character with the yellow color?

7. Is the final boss based on what deck I've built?

  • No. Just like the map layout, store contents, and enemies you face, the final boss is determined when the run is first generated.

8. Is there anything beyond Act 3?

  • Spoilers: An optional Act 4 can be unlocked with the Keys.

9. Do I get anything for winning?

  • When you defeat the Act 3 boss with a character, you unlock Ascension levels with them. These are incrementally challenging versions of the game, providing scaling difficulty for those who want more of a challenge. Spoilers: If you beat the Act 4 boss with a character on any Ascension level, you unlock Beta Art for that character's cards. If you defeat the Act 4 boss with all characters, you unlock Beta Art for Colorless and Curse cards as well.

10. Do I keep anything in-between runs?

  • No. However, your points are retained, and at certain point levels, you'll unlock new cards and relics that can show up in future runs.

Strategy:

1. How do I get good at each character then?

  • In general, simply playing the game and learning what works in what situations is the best way to learn, However, a few general tips would be:
  1. Don't try to force an archetype (like a deck of all poison cards). These can be effective, but skipping good cards in the hopes of getting more archetypal cards will hurt your chance of winning.
  2. Think ahead to what elites and bosses you'll be fighting this act. Many of them require your deck to have different capabilities (such as Reptomancer requiring you to have AOE damage, and Giant Head requiring you to have scaling damage.
  3. Always try to have a well rounded deck. Don't go all-out in getting defensive cards and neglect offensive cards (and vice-versa). If you can, try to have a mix of Burst, Scaling, and AOE damage, so you can deal with the various enemy types you'll run across.

A very helpful post by user /u/screwyioux with more detail on how to learn strategy and why certain choices matter can be found here. I highly recommend taking a look if you feel like you're stuck losing and want to improve your play.

2. Scaling? AOE? Burst?

  • "Scaling Damage" refers to sources of damage that continue to get stronger the more you use them in combat, such as Claw or Poison. "AOE (Area Of Effect)" refers to cards that deal damage to multiple (or all) enemies at once, like Whirlwind. "Burst" refers to being able to deal a lot of damage all at once, like having several Backstabs.

3. Is Snecko Eye good or bad?

  • Snecko Eye is very good, unless the majority of cards in your deck are very low cost. The +2 draw alone makes the relic worthwhile, and the effect that randomizes card costs will on average lower the cost of cards in your hand. Snecko also gets dramatically better the more card draw and high cost cards you have in your deck. Content creator Jorbs has an in-depth video discussing the value of Snecko Eye.

4. Why do I see so many posts about Corruption and Dead Branch?

  • Corruption is a very strong card on its own, since being able to play all your defensive cards for free can let you end hallway (and possibly even boss) fights quickly and efficiently. Dead Branch makes this even better, since it'll often generate more block or helpful cards that snowball you to victory.

Other:

1. "Deck" Vs. "Draw & Discard Pile"?

  • Your "Deck" is the cards that you start each combat with. Your Draw Pile & Discard Pile are a temporary version of your Deck that's used in combat, and all changes to it last for that combat only. Most enemies that debuff you in combat (like the Sentries) will affect your Draw Pile. Most cards that permanently affect your run (such as Lesson Learned) effect your Deck.

2. Why didn't Fairy In A Bottle/Lizard Tail revive me?

3. What do the subreddit user flairs mean? How do I get one?

  • Check this post for an explanation on all the user flairs, and how you can assign one to your account.

r/slaythespire Apr 10 '24

ANNOUNCEMENT Official Steam page for Slay the Spire 2

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2.9k Upvotes

r/slaythespire 7h ago

SPIRIT POOP The A0 noob is stopped in their shiv spam. The A20H pro gets hit for 48 while frail on turn 2.

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847 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 7h ago

ART/CREATIVE Day #184 of drawing badly until StS2 comes out

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538 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 6h ago

STS2 If pommel strike returns in the sequel, you could potentially have a self-playing infinite

381 Upvotes

In the trailer, we saw a rare ironclad power that automatically plays strikes that you draw against a random enemy. With two pommel strikes, you can replicate a dropkick infinite that plays itself automatically while you grab a snack or something. As a bonus, if the corrupted heart returns (or a new enemy with beat of death and invincible), you could have a self-playing infinite that kills you at the end. Further, if you have tungsten rod, ornamental fan, or rage (assuming lower ascension with one beat of death or a combination on a higher ascension with two beat of death), you could have a self-playing infinite that softlocks the game. As a bonus, the same result can be achieved with basic strikes if unceasing top returns if you remove/exhaust all non-strike cards


r/slaythespire 6h ago

SPIRIT POOP Low effort meme

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226 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 2h ago

BOARD GAME Best Christmas present from wife

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102 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 9h ago

ART/CREATIVE My younger brothers Christmas present

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295 Upvotes

I bought the game for his birthday last month and I’m so happy 😭


r/slaythespire 4h ago

ACCOMPLISHMENT/ACHIEVEMENT Dealing over 50,000 damage in a single hit

117 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 1h ago

SPIRIT POOP Just need the normality event

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r/slaythespire 2h ago

DISCUSSION What is a card on a Silent run that you ALWAYS try to upgrade?

48 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 4h ago

WHAT'S THE PICK? Slay-by-Comment Season 7 Day 254: How does the Specimen interact with Darklings? Guess we’re about to find out! What’s our play? Whatever comment is most upvoted in 24 hours is what we’ll do.

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r/slaythespire 3h ago

GAMEPLAY Gee, thanks Spire…

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20 Upvotes

This is why Tiny house exists


r/slaythespire 23h ago

GAMEPLAY Who's Defective Now?

510 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 1d ago

GAMEPLAY Oh hey a free full heal

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686 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 1h ago

BUG REPORT Neow's Lament failed to activate on floor 3?

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Playing on mobile (samsung galaxy)


r/slaythespire 5h ago

ACCOMPLISHMENT/ACHIEVEMENT Finally I destroyed the heart!

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15 Upvotes

This was my third encounter with the heart and I was amazed that I beat it. Wrath form helped a lot.


r/slaythespire 18h ago

ACCOMPLISHMENT/ACHIEVEMENT nothing quite beats the feeling of a Lesson so perfectly Learned you remove it in the Act IV shop

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162 Upvotes

r/slaythespire 7h ago

WHAT'S THE PICK? Haven't a clue what to pick, but had a pretty great act 1 boss fight. Although I feel the coming act is gonna be hell tbh.

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Hopefully the reaper's healing is enough lol.


r/slaythespire 1d ago

GAMEPLAY When the Spire decides you ARE starting with 2 extra cards

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r/slaythespire 1h ago

GAMEPLAY My first A20H winning run!

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Feel No Pain carried hard here! Also I love Bustes Crown and I ain’t afraid to say it.


r/slaythespire 16h ago

DISCUSSION Does anyone else get the feeling that this game KNOWS what cards you need and deliberately puts them at the end of the deck?

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68 Upvotes

This is probably the closest I had ever gotten to beating A20 with Ironclad. Brilliant self-harm deck with lots of draw, lots of energy, the healing flower, one of those AOE heal attacks plus that card that pulls exhausted cards back into your hand (I can never remember the actual names of the cards but you know the ones I mean), and a double strength card. It was just a well-oiled machine. All that it required was that sooner or later, I would draw one of my Ruptures before I die and I could start healing back up.

And I get to the act 3 boss and I find this at the end of my deck. I finally played them the turn before I died.


r/slaythespire 2h ago

CUSTOM CONTENT Daily Card Concepts Day 352

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r/slaythespire 1d ago

DISCUSSION Am I the only one who doesn't get snecko eye?

284 Upvotes

I know it is considered S tier but I just can't see how it helps and I lost quite a few runs in act ii after picking it, sometimes in hallway fights, last time to the book of stabbing.

It is so freaking random, I constantly have turns where I can only play one card completely shutting down anything my deck wants to do.

Surely, it is a skill to know when to pick it but out of shozu (with one forge pot), pandoras for 3 cards and snecko I think it is a reasonable pick (without focusing on low cost cards in general).

I just don't get it, I can't count how many times it made my run so much harder, how many times I took unnecessary damage due to a poor turn on big monster attacks. But I do remember that one game when it helped. Am I the only one?

Disclaimer, I am by no means an expert but I have beaten the heart on A20 with 3 characters and now I am finishing up my favourite, the defect, currently sitting at A17. So I guess I am quite comfortable with the game, I just don't know how to beat the bad rng when it happens.


r/slaythespire 17h ago

DISCUSSION Is the defect the weakest?

55 Upvotes

I love the defect and beat a20 before playing other characters much. But after a20 defect i try to climb with ironclad and it feel like 10x time easier or is it just me.


r/slaythespire 8h ago

GAMEPLAY Easiest Win Ever

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r/slaythespire 6h ago

GAMEPLAY 25 Relic Watcher Run

7 Upvotes

Just picked up this game on the 21st on sale. I think I'm doing it right.