I'm not saying that Slay the Spire: The Board Game is better than the original

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[seandunham]

One small correction. The board game DOES have setup rules for starting at different acts.

[GrimFun]

I have never played Slay The Spire. My girlfriend bought the board game because she likes the original. We play this game every week. Sometimes up to five times a week. This board game is super easy to learn. It's a lot of fun especially with multiple people. We've unlocked a lot. But we still have yet to beat the 4th.

[Jovanny_pcpp]

I've never played the video game

I bought the board game because people said the game was a good deckbuilder and I like deckbuilders

The manual was extremely good at explaining literally everything

Hearing efka say the exact opposite really surprised me

[drgnwrr]

I’ve played a good amount of STS in video game form and probably watched other people play it even more than that (streamers). My family has only played 1 deck builder board game (Harry Potter Hogwarts Battle) so I wanted the STS board game, but wasn’t sure if my family would get into it.

I got it anyway and have played through act 3 with sister and parents on separate play throughs. It took a couple combats for them to understand some things and occasionally they would ask how something worked even though they had used the card multiple times in earlier combats. But after finishing the game all of them were asking questions about what will happen next time or what it’s like to play as a different character.

So I would 100% encourage everyone to try introducing people who don’t know the video game to the board game you might need to give a lot of instruction and sometimes it feels like you are playing all the characters at once. But it’s a good game to play even with new players and the excitement people get as they begin to understand their combos is super fun to watch.

[gregorys]

"Only a hyper beam, boo" - That's literally one of my favourite cards!

[Bleuchz]

Between this, leviathan wilds and Arcs it could be the best year in the hobby for me, specifically.

[srabbelier]

NPI really nails why the boardgame is such a good adaptation and where the fun lies. Really great game especially when playing with friends.

[_am]

Ive heard its great but its price! Ive hundreds of hours playing the video game, just just cant justify the cost.

[jrbrinksmanship]

My group had never played the video game before (other than me) and we were all OBSESSED with the BG. I think it worked so well because they had me to Sherpa them along in one of their first deck builders and their absolute first rogue-like, but still, we played every week, doing run after run, until we unlocked and completed Act IV. Highly recommended.

[privatevendetta]

You dont have to start in act one in the boardgame.

[meathir]

I'm surprised Efka didn't talk about the KS structure itself. Look, I'm only looking to maybe buy the base game since uh... that's expensive.

But I think this is probably the most sensible set of KS content I've seen. Rather than locking content (okay... the Claw pack. Claw is law), they locked stuff that card gamers that like blinging out would want. Playmats, higher rarities, alt arts, these are the things people who play card games would want to spend on a game outside of more content. They could've locked Ascensions behind it but they didn't. Shows a level of care.

I guess Mega Crit's roots in Netrunner shone through a bit. Contention Games did a bloody good job.

[tuckerroveto]

Loved the video but disagree with the “it’s written for people who have played” statement. I’ve played a fair amount digitally but my wife never has. I set it up but she read thru the rules and was mostly good to go!! She is good at and enjoys deck building though. Love the game.

[fairyfish]

I introduced this to a friend who never played StS before. I didn't explain the rules. I gave her the starter deck of a character she liked the look of, showed her the attack and defend icons, said "it's the same as Legendary but just draw 5" and started the first encounter.
Everything else I explained as it came up. We went through to Act 3 and bullied Time Eater to death and she immediately downloaded the video game on her phone and hasn't put it down in weeks!

[NicD]

Other improvements in the board game:
• Full knowledge, which to be fair is more of a strike against the video game, where it feels like half a player's improvement is learning about event outcomes and enemy behavior.
• Everything being trackable; you're never blindsided from an unforeseen edge case, forgotten relic, or obscure trigger interaction.
• Direct decision-making, like assigning energy to X-cost cards, choosing what cards to discard or exhaust, skipping the rest of forgone combats, taking back a hasty move, and especially everything to do with orbs.

[mofire]

I'm proud to have spent a decent time contributing to playtesting and providing feedback before the game released. Glad to see it did so well, and amazing review!

[StuartHetzler]

patiently awaiting gloomhaven the board game the video game the boardgame

[mistymysticsailboat]

Did you just BOO hyperbeam? YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW

[Ryusuta]

I love the Slay the Spire computer game, but one of its biggest weaknesses, is that your run is basically decided for you within the first few floors of it. This is especially true in the higher ascensions. The board game definitely feels like you have a lot more flexibility with what cards you take and both when and how you want to do your builds.

[WadeAllen]

I do personally think failing and having to start over in cooperative board games is almost always pretty intolerable. That's why when I play Gloomhaven if my group feels like we're about to all die we turn the difficulty down one notch so we never have to redo a scenario. So it's not a question of "will we succeed?" but a question of "what difficulty level will we succeed at?" Though I haven't played Slay the Spire the board game to know if I personally find losing a cooperative board game too annoying to bear. I would suspect it feels better because there's more randomness in the run, whereas in something like Gloomhaven you've got to just redo the exact same scenario.

[MrPiotrV]

if you think act 1 elites are "easy" you're definitely not playing on ascension 20 :p
also, hyperbeam is amazing