I play a lot of deck builder games, and I’ve also played a ton of Slay the Spire clones. Slay the Spire is certainly a great a game that led to the genre being as popular as it is today. I, however, prefer to play games that put a unique spin on the formula, rather than copy it wholesale. I’ve thrown together a list of 10 deck building games that aren’t Slay the Spire, literally and metaphorically.
Covering games in one form or another means I end up publishing a lot of negativity, be it about individual games or the industry as a whole. I wanted to start the new year off with something positive, so I decided to put together a small list of games that I’m looking forward to and that are coming fairly soon.
The Game Awards by Geoff Keighly have come and gone, and Expedition 33 swept half of them as expected because, after several years, they still haven’t realized that putting Game of the Year nominees in other categories is incredibly stupid. In any case, I wanted to do my own dumb little award show, mainly because the algorithms demand content, and I didn’t have any better ideas!
Arc Raiders isn’t actually a PvP game, and that fact is what fuels the incredible social dynamics that are thriving within it. You see, Arc Raiders is actually a PvE game with PvP elements. Don’t believe me? Let’s run it down.