#Slay the spire switch portable#

The first thing that strikes you when you jump into your virgin run of Slay the Spire is how much information the game is willing to reveal to you with regards your enemy’s next move compared to your usual card-battler. It’s an immediately irresistible formula you choose one of three characters – Ironclad, Silent or Defect – each with their own special passive bonus, or relic and unique set of cards with which to gradually build your deck as you attempt to traverse three procedurally-generated floors worth of enemy encounters, chance events and boss battles in an effort to face off against the final nightmare atop the titular Spire.

These are your long-haul flight friends, comrades on an epic car journey, the ones you turn to late at night for a wind-down session on the couch or tucked up in your bed – and Slay the Spire absolutely manages to join their ranks.Īn extended period of Early Access on PC has seen Mega Crit Games’ beautifully balanced blend of roguelike dungeon crawler and deck-building card battler polished to perfection, receiving several important revisions that built on what was already a very solid base to reach the nigh-on perfect state in which we find it being delivered to Nintendo’s system. and, if you’re the kind of fancy type who’s upgraded their storage, Breath of the Wild. We’re talking about games like Mario Kart 8, Celeste, Axiom Verge, Into the Breach, Smash Bros.

#Slay the spire switch portable#

There are a handful of Switch games we know we’ll likely never uninstall from our systems an elite list of titles so addictive and so well suited to the portable nature of Nintendo’s system that they’ll always have a special place allocated on that MicroSD card.