

The full list of changes can be found here, and the game is also half price on steam, an excellent price for something that was considered in many people’s game of the year lists for 2019. A lot of the new potions I’ve picked up are geared towards delving back in your exhaust pile to bring cards back from the dead. With only three characters, Slay the Spire is a meaty deckbuilding roguelike that I've still not been able to defeat, and now it's poised to introduce another hero to its roster.

The additional relics and potions are a nice touch, giving you even more options to prepare for the upcoming boss. You don’t want to be caught short in wraith stance, as even the weakest of enemies can do some major damage. The key, at least for me, is balancing being in calm and wraith.

Initially, it appears that the character doesn’t do much damage, but once you get the hang of setting up different stance changes and pre-empting your periods of being in Wraith for maximum burst damage. If that seems like a lot take on at once, it’s because it is. Finally, you have Divinity – This takes a fair bit of work to get in to you have to build ten stacks of a buff before it activates, but you gain three energy and deal triple damage for a single turn. Wraith – This is the most interesting, and most dangerous of the stances you deal double damage but also receive double damage. Calm – This initially offers eight-block, and when you exit calm, you gain two extra energy temporarily. In Slay the Spire, the player, through one of four characters, attempts to ascend a spire of multiple floors, created through procedural generation. Essentially, the character can be in four different states neutral, calm, wraith, and divinity. The Watcher is the fourth addition to Slay the Spire’s roster and brings with her a new dynamic stance gimmick. The new content not only takes the form of new relics, potions, and a bunch of bug fixes but also adds a new character, the Watcher. The card building roguelike Slay the Spire this week has gained a pretty hefty 2.0 update.
