Josh Strife’s Worst Roguelike Deckbuilder Ever Series. Full video essay on all the worst ones. Make a career out of it and hope you don’t come out like James Rolfe at the end 😂
games like these need to hit a very specific mark in order to get overwhelmingly positive there are lots of things that make people end up leaving a negative review, and for deck builders its very easy to reach that area, and only six games being able to maintain overwhelmingly positive after months and even years is obvious proof that if you DO hit that area, you arent leaving it
A genre that has a crazy number of overwhelming positive is visual novels. People who like visual novels play visual novels. That is why it's like that.
Sucks that Wildfrost got review bombed on day 1 cause people had no idea how to play it otherwise it would be overwhelmingly positive too. That is one of the best deckbuilders ever made hands down.
My one gripe with the Roguelike Deckbuilder label is it obfuscates the fact Slay the Spire doesn't just sit at the top; it's also easily one of the GOATs for the entire Roguelike genre
Major props for putting the name of each game on screen as youre talking about them. So many much larger youtubers dont understand this and it drives me mad
I'm gonna be honest. I primarily watch your videos because of your personality, the types of games you like, and how good you are at them. In that order. The first one makes the last one be a positive. I watch some retromation if it gets too much 😅
I really liked this type of video (as opposed to the regular let's plays - which I also like, to be clear). Wouldn't mind seeing more "editorial content" like this!
When you revisit monster train I highly recommend picking up the DLC as well!! It adds a new clan, a bunch of new alternate champions, new bosses and so much more!! I can’t wait to follow this series of videos!
Unless you are a completionist they did not add so luch more in that DLC. These games have 2 dimension for player progression, the game content for a normal run, that's what casuals like, and then there is the ''end game+'' if I could say, which is more for completionnist players and people who really want to beat the game entirely and pretty much becoming a master at the game.
Unfortunately, the devs basically immediately dropped support for the game as soon as the DLC dropped, so there's a good third of the cards that are just way too underpowered for the new mechanics. Monster Train also made me realize how deranged my completionist mentality was when I realized just how much of an insane task was to even just simply get a completion mark with every card. Not saying the game's bad, but yeah
The STS board game is like, really good. I was skeptical of it because it was so close to the video game I was thinking "well what's even the point" but the cooperative element is like, actually really fun and gives it a unique and worthwhile element to it, it's smartly designed to be not too hard to track manually, and like. If you're familiar with the digital game already it's *so easy to learn.* Took about 6 hours going through all three acts with some people yesterday. One of them hadn't played the board game but has played the video game and there was *basically no teaching required* it was awesome. We got to the heart and died there.
Honestly I didn’t know what roguelike meant until I found your channel lol I’m glad I know now tho because they’re so fun and addicting, I was missing out for sure
I'm a type of person you didn't mention in your intro: I have NOT enjoyed deck builders (especially not Slay the Spire). But I am trying Ringo. I am trying *real* hard to enjoy them. So I am watching your video to try to figure out what I am missing that makes these enjoyable. You gave me some insights I didn't have before.
Quite disapointed to learn that Astrea Six Sided Oracles is not among the highest rated games because it honeslty is one of the best! Six different characters that play very diffrenetly, very cool mechanics of corruption and purification that switches the way you think about health, a good diifficulty system and a great enemy variety on top of great graphics and nice music! If you like deckbuilding roguleikes and especially with dice go check it out you wont regret it! On another note great content as usual you're definitely one of my favorite roguelike content creators, cheers from France!
I get why Inscryption isn't included, with it only being kinda a rougelite for the main campaign, but Kaycee's Mod is undeniably a rougelite and I think would be worth revisiting (it is Overwhelmingly Positive, obviously)
I'm surprised that I've never even heard of Shogun Showdown. For Cobalt Core, I've watched an entire series of let's plays by Rhapsody (also good friends with Olexa) and I was hooked the whole way through. Rhapsody is also how I discovered Slay the Spire - I'm sure I've watched over 200 hours of Rhapsody playing that game. It just has so much to offer!
Love the idea of you playing these as well! Probably will be buying Shogun Showdown soon. Along with unrelated to this video Dice and Fold and Wildfrost
I'm so looking forward to Cobalt Core modded. I haven't been able to get back to the modding scene cuz of uni, and I'm dying to see how much fun the new mods are.
I am pretty sure your Balatro video was the first of your episodes I watched. It is one of my favorite games now (I think the equalize sound effect when playing the plasma deck is one of the best sound effects in video gaming) . Thanks for this video, I have some more games to check out.
apart from path of exile and factorio, monster train is my most played steam game. (slay the spire is right after that) It was truly a masterpiece of a game that I also haven't opened in over 2 years. I am looking forward to all of these videos but the monster train one the most
Everyone of these games is in my library and I spend a ton of time playing them… Mostly I like RPG isometric games, but this little genre has really burrowed a hole in my heart. I’m also glad that many of them can be played on the Steam Deck. It is the perfect genre for the Steam Deck.
I just realized that the story/campaign mode of the original (1998) "Magic: The Gathering, Duels of The Plainswalkers" was actually a deck building roguelike. It had a random generated world with random generated dungeons, special items with passive effects, and you built your deck by defeating enemies, claiming treasures, browsing shops, etc. I bet there were more like that featuring real trading card games
First of all, thanks for the videos; I'm looking forward to this week. Second, that's quite a Steam collection you have there. Third, I've played the StS board game, and it's a lot of fun, but it takes a long time. I've played it twice, both times lasted 3 hours, and we only finished the first act. Maybe, one of these days, we'll get four people to give up *nine* hours so we can finally beat this game, but that seems unlikely. Is it worth trying at least once? Probably, yeah. But there's so much setup. The setup alone is longer than most deckbuilding roguelike runs. So, I have mixed feelings. YMMV!
Glaring omission of The Void Rains Upon Her Heart, which has put all gameplay features on cards and so is surely the most deckbuilding roguelike of them all :^)
Inscryption isn’t… really a roguelike deckbuilder which is why I didn’t include it. Kaycee’s mod is a roguelike deckbuilder but I consider Kaycee’s mod a bit of, exactly that, a mod. (Plus I don’t think it’s very good haha)
@@OlexaYT wow really didn’t think about that that way. Makes a lot of sense now that you put it in that perspective. Funny enough that was the game that got me more into rougelikes. And of course hades, anyways been binging your content for a few days now and you’re really cool. Learned about a lot of new rougelikes thanks to you. Really cool that you replied have a great rest of your day my man 🤘.
My personal hot take is, that Monster Train is actually the better roguelike deckbuilder than Slay the Spire is. But that's just preference, I like both and I loved my time with Monster Train. But I own all of the games mentioned and all of them are special in their own way. It just showcases amazingly how varied this genre can be, and those are just some of the top games, there's so many more that are good
Not that hot of a take, but maybe a slightly less popular one. I too played a lot more Monster Train than StS. It's one of my most played games. Not that I don't love StS, but enjoy MT more for sure.
@@Nova04550 I loved the customization aspect of MT so much. Not only that you could custom build your hero, you had two heroes to choose from for each faction, five factions and chose two of them for a given run. It felt so much more like I was in control of what I wanted, in StS it's "just" which class you pick and then the usual deckbuilding aspect.
@@VividWorlds Yeah MT gives a lot more control in general and not much that will harm you just because you got unlucky. And yeah tons of variation/replayability.
Shotout to the Hearthstone single player pve modes! from Kobolds and Catacombs onwards, they had dungeon runs which is by itself, one of the first deck building roguelike game mode that pushed the genre forward around the same time as slay the spire, which boosted its popularity by a metric ton!
All of these games to be honest, for the most part, have so much endless replayability and depth, that they need a huge amount of hours to invest into and get good, that you can't ever do them justice without a heck ton of experience on them. Slay the spire is the king of course. Thousands of hours and you can still get better in it. Madness. They are not like the other games, or even the other roguelikes, where you play 5 or 10 or even 30 runs and then you move unto the next game. They are just not like this. PS: Monster train is actually quite fun, but I will say that you can break the game very easily, more easily than the other games at least, and this makes for a lesser challenge, compared to the slay the spire favorite. We always return to StS mostly because of the very nice challenge that keeps you on your toes, even after hundred and thousands of hours.
I think the best designed deckbuilder is Across the Obelisk. However, it has some negative reviews because of the DLCs and launcher (still very positive).
I did click on this video pretty much exclusively because Olanky posted something. Not because of the deckbuilders. I do think there's a LOT to be gained from re-visiting some older games. Games like Terracards etc. have updated a lot since you last played them.
One correction: Slay the Spire was not the first to have Ascensions - not by a long shot. I'm sure there are several roguelike games from days past that had them (probably MUDs), but one I know of for sure is Kingdom of Loathing. They even call them Ascensions. Although they aren't increasing numerical levels, they are unique challenges that introduce restrictions or goals on top of the regular game making it much more difficult, and they are only unlocked as a result of completing a previous run.
Technically speaking Samurai Showdown isn't a deckbuilder but a hand management game. It has more in common with Rogue Lords than with StS. Still a great game which I found through this video.
Luck Be a Landlord isn’t a traditional deckbuilder by any means. But it's one of my most played games ever. Particularly since it got a mobile release. I credit it for helping me quit the majority of social medias, which made me a happier person.
Total banger game, for sure. Just not labeled as a roguelike deckbuilder on steam. If we included adjacent kinda strategy roguelikes then this list is much longer haha
You missed Inscryption. Is there a reason you didn't include it or was it just an oversight? I can't imagine anybody into this genre not knowing about and loving that game.
I'd love to hear your take on the Slay the Spire board game, even if it's just in passing during a video Also, I agree with the rest. I watch you because you're fun to watch!
I've recently found that you'd played Monster Train. It's laughing through tears, sorry 😅 I'm really curious to see your process 🙃 Dragons and The Last Divinity wait for you.
If you are going to do some slay the spire modded i have to recommend the comunity collabs(im sure you are already aware of them) "the packmaster" and "spire biomes" and also a mod called "gensokyo" wich adds alternative acts 1 trought 4 with complete custom enemies, cards, relics, events, mechanics so on there is a 4th that is on a whole level pretty much could been a complete separate, the mod name is "shion" but i can not recomend it(to a content creator) because the art is pretty nswf and not suitable for video/streaming(also its translated from chinese and some texts hurt)
I've never liked poker so I held off from Balatro for awhile, but a good friend who I got into Slay the Spire was obsessed with it so I gave it a chance. If you love deckbuilding roguelites but have stayed way from Balatro because you don't like poker I'd just like to tell you GET THE DAMN GAME ALREADY!!!
I don’t think it’s deckbuilding at all tbh. You’re not building a deck lol. It’s more of just a good strategy tactics game. It’s like calling Brutal Orchestra a deckbuilder, or ring of pain.
Astrea is one of my personal favorites in the genre and the only other deckbuilder to give me the same enjoyment as playing sts the first time. A little after its release it was actually overwhelming positive for a time, but it understandably dipped as the game asks quite a bit of the player starting out with its UI and somewhat flawed mechanics where many builds simply don't work without key components. It was also disheartening seeing the amount of streamers just tear the game a new one from the UI alone and promptly deeming it a dud, but again wasn't too surprised I guess.
So, it might be dumb. But I don't like playing deck builders on my pc, I would rather play something that needs more power. Instead I player deck builders on my phone. Could you do a mobile deck builder video? please A few recommendations, Void Tyrant; Solitarica; (kinda deck builder) Heck Deck; Job Mania; Meteor Falls; Krumits Tale; Rogue Adventure; Night of the Full Moon (this game got me into deck builders; I love this games art) Before someone comments, I know slay the spire and wildfrost are on mobile, I only play them on mobile too.
i can't wait for die in the dungeon - i played the very first demo, but have been intentionally passing on this one to wait for at least EA if not 1.0 release. I can attest the other 4 are bangers.
When are we getting the Only Overwhelmingly Negative Deckbuilding Roguelikes series
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Josh Strife’s Worst Roguelike Deckbuilder Ever Series. Full video essay on all the worst ones. Make a career out of it and hope you don’t come out like James Rolfe at the end 😂
"Trash game hunter Olexa plays the worst games until they break"
Sounds like a mix of Shangri-La Frontier and Let's Game It Out
I’d watch that haha
I'm writing a blog on the chronological history of roguelike deck-builders, so I guess in a sense I'd be inadvertently making that, too.
games like these need to hit a very specific mark in order to get overwhelmingly positive
there are lots of things that make people end up leaving a negative review, and for deck builders its very easy to reach that area, and only six games being able to maintain overwhelmingly positive after months and even years is obvious proof that if you DO hit that area, you arent leaving it
A genre that has a crazy number of overwhelming positive is visual novels. People who like visual novels play visual novels. That is why it's like that.
@@SuperFlamethrower If my grandmother had wheels she would be a car.
Low chance or not, I'm here because I think you're fun to watch!
There's dozens of us! DOZENS
That’s why I’m here
Came to say this
I'm actually not a huge fan of these kind of lists. I'm here for Olexa.
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Sucks that Wildfrost got review bombed on day 1 cause people had no idea how to play it otherwise it would be overwhelmingly positive too. That is one of the best deckbuilders ever made hands down.
It’s definitely a banger. It did release too hard though, I get why the reviews were rough
Yeah Wildfrost is great and deserved better. I'm sad that they've released their final content update.
Wildfrost done absolutely filthy, its easily a peer to these other big boys.
What was the reasoning behind the review bomb?
@@coveltinitial difficulty. We get that Roguelikes can be hard at first, but wildfrost first online iterations was intense.
My one gripe with the Roguelike Deckbuilder label is it obfuscates the fact Slay the Spire doesn't just sit at the top; it's also easily one of the GOATs for the entire Roguelike genre
Slay the Spire is on one of the GOAT of all games. It arguably can be considered to be one of the top 10 best games ever.
@@tomribeitop 10 games to bring into a desert island
Major props for putting the name of each game on screen as youre talking about them. So many much larger youtubers dont understand this and it drives me mad
I'm gonna be honest. I primarily watch your videos because of your personality, the types of games you like, and how good you are at them. In that order. The first one makes the last one be a positive. I watch some retromation if it gets too much 😅
Congrats on 160k subs Tyler ❤ 200k is just around the corner, hopefully.
I love you olexa
I really liked this type of video (as opposed to the regular let's plays - which I also like, to be clear). Wouldn't mind seeing more "editorial content" like this!
Like others have said, I'm here for you. The games are just a little bonus.
When you revisit monster train I highly recommend picking up the DLC as well!! It adds a new clan, a bunch of new alternate champions, new bosses and so much more!! I can’t wait to follow this series of videos!
Unless you are a completionist they did not add so luch more in that DLC. These games have 2 dimension for player progression, the game content for a normal run, that's what casuals like, and then there is the ''end game+'' if I could say, which is more for completionnist players and people who really want to beat the game entirely and pretty much becoming a master at the game.
Unfortunately, the devs basically immediately dropped support for the game as soon as the DLC dropped, so there's a good third of the cards that are just way too underpowered for the new mechanics.
Monster Train also made me realize how deranged my completionist mentality was when I realized just how much of an insane task was to even just simply get a completion mark with every card.
Not saying the game's bad, but yeah
The STS board game is like, really good. I was skeptical of it because it was so close to the video game I was thinking "well what's even the point" but the cooperative element is like, actually really fun and gives it a unique and worthwhile element to it, it's smartly designed to be not too hard to track manually, and like. If you're familiar with the digital game already it's *so easy to learn.* Took about 6 hours going through all three acts with some people yesterday. One of them hadn't played the board game but has played the video game and there was *basically no teaching required* it was awesome. We got to the heart and died there.
I'm a simple man, I see an Olexa video and I click the notification, no matter the title.
The STS board game is such a banger. I got it a few weeks ago, tried it a few times and it's already probably my favourite of all times.
quite a lot of people are here because youre fun to watch!
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I enjoy watching you! But I was also hooked by the thumbnail and video title! Psychology baby!🎉
I am glad I will see Monster train new runs on youtube this week. It is a treasure.
Honestly I didn’t know what roguelike meant until I found your channel lol I’m glad I know now tho because they’re so fun and addicting, I was missing out for sure
The ONLY Overwhelmingly Hydrated Deckbuilding Roguelikes
I'm a type of person you didn't mention in your intro: I have NOT enjoyed deck builders (especially not Slay the Spire). But I am trying Ringo. I am trying *real* hard to enjoy them. So I am watching your video to try to figure out what I am missing that makes these enjoyable. You gave me some insights I didn't have before.
I love all of these games but I somehow missed/never heard of shogun showdown! Thanks for correcting that!
Quite disapointed to learn that Astrea Six Sided Oracles is not among the highest rated games because it honeslty is one of the best! Six different characters that play very diffrenetly, very cool mechanics of corruption and purification that switches the way you think about health, a good diifficulty system and a great enemy variety on top of great graphics and nice music! If you like deckbuilding roguleikes and especially with dice go check it out you wont regret it!
On another note great content as usual you're definitely one of my favorite roguelike content creators, cheers from France!
I get why Inscryption isn't included, with it only being kinda a rougelite for the main campaign, but Kaycee's Mod is undeniably a rougelite and I think would be worth revisiting (it is Overwhelmingly Positive, obviously)
True Kaycee’s mod is, but Inscryption isn’t overwhelmingly positive bc of Kaycee’s mod
@@OlexaYT That's fair.
Fwiw my judgement of it not being included is it is not tagged as a deckbuilding roguelike on steam. If even the dev doesn’t think it is, I can’t
Cool video concept, I didn't realise there were so few OPDBs!
Cobalt Core and Shogun Showdown have been my favourites. Love them but feel like more people need to know about them and give them a go. Great games.
I'm surprised that I've never even heard of Shogun Showdown. For Cobalt Core, I've watched an entire series of let's plays by Rhapsody (also good friends with Olexa) and I was hooked the whole way through. Rhapsody is also how I discovered Slay the Spire - I'm sure I've watched over 200 hours of Rhapsody playing that game. It just has so much to offer!
Love the idea of you playing these as well! Probably will be buying Shogun Showdown soon. Along with unrelated to this video Dice and Fold and Wildfrost
I'm so looking forward to Cobalt Core modded. I haven't been able to get back to the modding scene cuz of uni, and I'm dying to see how much fun the new mods are.
I am pretty sure your Balatro video was the first of your episodes I watched. It is one of my favorite games now (I think the equalize sound effect when playing the plasma deck is one of the best sound effects in video gaming) . Thanks for this video, I have some more games to check out.
apart from path of exile and factorio, monster train is my most played steam game. (slay the spire is right after that) It was truly a masterpiece of a game that I also haven't opened in over 2 years. I am looking forward to all of these videos but the monster train one the most
I love Slay The Spire, and I liked Monster Train, but I got bored with it pretty quickly. I keep going back to the Spire.
I want the baratro soundtrack playing quietly in the background as i go about my day
It’s criminal that wildfrost still isn’t overwhelmingly positive on steam - go back to it people! The updates have made it into a beast
Let's get Brutal Orchestra to overwhelmingly positive for season 2!
Really wanted to love it but was underwhelmed by it. Not really a deck builder either. Though I understand it's got a similar feel.
@@Nova04550 I completely skipped reading the deckbuilding part of the title before skimming through the video to see if Brutal Orchestra was in it 💀
Neat video idea and solid thumbnail :) the effort is noticed and appreciated
To be fair FTL did the branching path thingie in a roguelike before StS (not that it matters much... it's a simple concept).
Everyone of these games is in my library and I spend a ton of time playing them… Mostly I like RPG isometric games, but this little genre has really burrowed a hole in my heart. I’m also glad that many of them can be played on the Steam Deck. It is the perfect genre for the Steam Deck.
What I wouldnt give for another Circadian Dice video 😅 So excited to watch every one of these games this week 🎉❤
I just realized that the story/campaign mode of the original (1998) "Magic: The Gathering, Duels of The Plainswalkers" was actually a deck building roguelike. It had a random generated world with random generated dungeons, special items with passive effects, and you built your deck by defeating enemies, claiming treasures, browsing shops, etc. I bet there were more like that featuring real trading card games
Vault of the Void is also really good, with a very nice discard to gain energy system. Very combo heavy and incredibly fun.
Helpful; thank you!! Checking out a couple of them now
Will you do this with other genres
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First of all, thanks for the videos; I'm looking forward to this week. Second, that's quite a Steam collection you have there. Third, I've played the StS board game, and it's a lot of fun, but it takes a long time. I've played it twice, both times lasted 3 hours, and we only finished the first act. Maybe, one of these days, we'll get four people to give up *nine* hours so we can finally beat this game, but that seems unlikely. Is it worth trying at least once? Probably, yeah. But there's so much setup. The setup alone is longer than most deckbuilding roguelike runs. So, I have mixed feelings. YMMV!
My day just got better from the news of the upcoming Monster Train revisit!
Glaring omission of The Void Rains Upon Her Heart, which has put all gameplay features on cards and so is surely the most deckbuilding roguelike of them all :^)
Lmao. I love the hustle
Olexa's doing cobalt core runs were so back 🎉
Bringing us the best content holy crap
I just love you olexxxy 😍
Ngl I’m kinda surprised inscription wasn’t on that list
Inscryption isn’t… really a roguelike deckbuilder which is why I didn’t include it. Kaycee’s mod is a roguelike deckbuilder but I consider Kaycee’s mod a bit of, exactly that, a mod. (Plus I don’t think it’s very good haha)
@@OlexaYT wow really didn’t think about that that way. Makes a lot of sense now that you put it in that perspective. Funny enough that was the game that got me more into rougelikes. And of course hades, anyways been binging your content for a few days now and you’re really cool. Learned about a lot of new rougelikes thanks to you. Really cool that you replied have a great rest of your day my man 🤘.
Your videos are great, also you appear to be into the exact same kinda games as me which helps
You have Shogun Showdown videos? I love that game! I'ma have to go back to the past
It’s a shame Rogue Book is not overwhelming positive. It an exceptional game.
My personal hot take is, that Monster Train is actually the better roguelike deckbuilder than Slay the Spire is. But that's just preference, I like both and I loved my time with Monster Train.
But I own all of the games mentioned and all of them are special in their own way. It just showcases amazingly how varied this genre can be, and those are just some of the top games, there's so many more that are good
Not that hot of a take, but maybe a slightly less popular one. I too played a lot more Monster Train than StS. It's one of my most played games. Not that I don't love StS, but enjoy MT more for sure.
@@Nova04550 I loved the customization aspect of MT so much. Not only that you could custom build your hero, you had two heroes to choose from for each faction, five factions and chose two of them for a given run.
It felt so much more like I was in control of what I wanted, in StS it's "just" which class you pick and then the usual deckbuilding aspect.
@@VividWorlds Yeah MT gives a lot more control in general and not much that will harm you just because you got unlucky. And yeah tons of variation/replayability.
Never heard of Balatro. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Shotout to the Hearthstone single player pve modes! from Kobolds and Catacombs onwards, they had dungeon runs which is by itself, one of the first deck building roguelike game mode that pushed the genre forward around the same time as slay the spire, which boosted its popularity by a metric ton!
All of these games to be honest, for the most part, have so much endless replayability and depth, that they need a huge amount of hours to invest into and get good, that you can't ever do them justice without a heck ton of experience on them. Slay the spire is the king of course. Thousands of hours and you can still get better in it. Madness. They are not like the other games, or even the other roguelikes, where you play 5 or 10 or even 30 runs and then you move unto the next game. They are just not like this.
PS: Monster train is actually quite fun, but I will say that you can break the game very easily, more easily than the other games at least, and this makes for a lesser challenge, compared to the slay the spire favorite. We always return to StS mostly because of the very nice challenge that keeps you on your toes, even after hundred and thousands of hours.
have you heard of griftlands? I think it’s an amazing card game roguelite
The way i played all of the games, especially the last 3. Currently back in slay the spire try to push to level 20 from level 18.
Pirates outlaws should be here!
Great game genuinely! Not overwhelming positive tho
Die in the Dungeon has a great demo, and I look forward to the full release... but it makes me sad that I've burnt out on roguelikes lately.
Thank you, I bought Cobalt Core because of this video and I'm loving
It’s so good!
jokes on you im actually here because I thought it was a retromation video :)
IM KIDDING OLENKY YOU ARE BEST
I think the best designed deckbuilder is Across the Obelisk. However, it has some negative reviews because of the DLCs and launcher (still very positive).
The reason I haven't tried it yet is the runs look really long, and I'm a very slow player as it is.
you should play cogmind :D
One can only dream of a Shogun Showdown mobile port.
I really don’t care much for deck building anything, and by extension not slay the spire either, so I am actually here for you! 😌
I did click on this video pretty much exclusively because Olanky posted something. Not because of the deckbuilders.
I do think there's a LOT to be gained from re-visiting some older games. Games like Terracards etc. have updated a lot since you last played them.
I wonder why Roguebook isn't up there. I feel that it perfectly catches the spirit of slay the spire with some well-placed additional spin.
One correction: Slay the Spire was not the first to have Ascensions - not by a long shot. I'm sure there are several roguelike games from days past that had them (probably MUDs), but one I know of for sure is Kingdom of Loathing. They even call them Ascensions. Although they aren't increasing numerical levels, they are unique challenges that introduce restrictions or goals on top of the regular game making it much more difficult, and they are only unlocked as a result of completing a previous run.
Arguably it's the same as prestige systems in games like call of duty.
hillarious you think I clicked on this video instead of youtube just autoplaying it for me
Guess YT has good taste
Technically speaking Samurai Showdown isn't a deckbuilder but a hand management game. It has more in common with Rogue Lords than with StS. Still a great game which I found through this video.
I go by the tags on steam, and it’s listed as a roguelike deckbuilder
Can't wait for Slay the Spire 2
Emberward bears mentioning, although it's still in Early Access. It released after this video but is currently rated Overwhelmingly Positive.
Definitely! It’s snuck onto this list
Tyler, don't talk yourself down!
I am here because i like you! :
Luck Be a Landlord isn’t a traditional deckbuilder by any means. But it's one of my most played games ever. Particularly since it got a mobile release. I credit it for helping me quit the majority of social medias, which made me a happier person.
Total banger game, for sure. Just not labeled as a roguelike deckbuilder on steam. If we included adjacent kinda strategy roguelikes then this list is much longer haha
I only have 3 of them, but they're all top tier so I'm not shocked
I play Balatro so much! I'm like 91% done gold stake on all decks!
petition for ultra modded sts/draft champions to come back as at least a mini-series!
this was a great, nicely produced video! hope it sees the attention it deserves
I clicked the video because I like you
You missed Inscryption. Is there a reason you didn't include it or was it just an oversight? I can't imagine anybody into this genre not knowing about and loving that game.
It’s not a roguelike. Even the dev doesn’t have it tagged as a deckbuilding roguelike on steam
I'd love to hear your take on the Slay the Spire board game, even if it's just in passing during a video
Also, I agree with the rest. I watch you because you're fun to watch!
I did click the video because of you Olexa :)
I like roguelikes but deck builder roguelikes are not my favorite.
Cheers
I've recently found that you'd played Monster Train. It's laughing through tears, sorry 😅 I'm really curious to see your process 🙃 Dragons and The Last Divinity wait for you.
If you are going to do some slay the spire modded i have to recommend the comunity collabs(im sure you are already aware of them) "the packmaster" and "spire biomes"
and also a mod called "gensokyo" wich adds alternative acts 1 trought 4 with complete custom enemies, cards, relics, events, mechanics so on
there is a 4th that is on a whole level pretty much could been a complete separate, the mod name is "shion" but i can not recomend it(to a content creator) because the art is pretty nswf and not suitable for video/streaming(also its translated from chinese and some texts hurt)
i love balatro and slay the spire, very excited to see the rest of these games and hopefully find a new love!!
Deckbuilding roguelikes, slay the spire, AND Olexa?!?! All three at once, its almost too much enjoyment for my heart to handle
Even if is not on the list Lost Branch of Legend still my favorite rl deckbuilder
I've never liked poker so I held off from Balatro for awhile, but a good friend who I got into Slay the Spire was obsessed with it so I gave it a chance.
If you love deckbuilding roguelites but have stayed way from Balatro because you don't like poker I'd just like to tell you GET THE DAMN GAME ALREADY!!!
Would you consider Slice & Dice a deckbuilding roguelike? It's also Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam
I don’t think it’s deckbuilding at all tbh. You’re not building a deck lol. It’s more of just a good strategy tactics game. It’s like calling Brutal Orchestra a deckbuilder, or ring of pain.
Astrea six sided oracles deserves a spot too
It’s not overwhelmingly positive!
(I also didn’t care for that one tbh)
@@OlexaYT i know but it should be overwhelmingly positive. It's the only deckbuilder i play
Astrea is one of my personal favorites in the genre and the only other deckbuilder to give me the same enjoyment as playing sts the first time. A little after its release it was actually overwhelming positive for a time, but it understandably dipped as the game asks quite a bit of the player starting out with its UI and somewhat flawed mechanics where many builds simply don't work without key components. It was also disheartening seeing the amount of streamers just tear the game a new one from the UI alone and promptly deeming it a dud, but again wasn't too surprised I guess.
It's so sad that diceomancer didn't make it here. But I guess it makes sense, as its only a demo
So, it might be dumb. But I don't like playing deck builders on my pc, I would rather play something that needs more power. Instead I player deck builders on my phone. Could you do a mobile deck builder video? please
A few recommendations, Void Tyrant; Solitarica; (kinda deck builder) Heck Deck; Job Mania; Meteor Falls; Krumits Tale; Rogue Adventure; Night of the Full Moon (this game got me into deck builders; I love this games art)
Before someone comments, I know slay the spire and wildfrost are on mobile, I only play them on mobile too.
Unfortunately I know pretty much nothing about mobile games so this is outside my wheelhouse
Monster Train is my favorite game here. Altho I havent played Cobalt Core yet. Have it on my wishlist tho
Cobalt core rocks
Cobalt core is fantastic. Imo, lacks a little on the replayability side, but for the first like 20 hours it's amazing
Cobalt Core is the GOAT
Great timing I am bored, sort of, with Balatro and STS at the moment I just want a mini break so the others will draw my attention
Slay the Spire & Balatro are the best!
I'm here for all three things you said
Thanks for the list Olexa. straight onto Steam to get Die in the Dungeon and added CC to my wishlist
i can't wait for die in the dungeon - i played the very first demo, but have been intentionally passing on this one to wait for at least EA if not 1.0 release. I can attest the other 4 are bangers.
Balatro with Tyler is the only Balatro I desire
Cobalt core on the list... NICE❤