Slay the Spire
BANGER · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 12.3h
- Value
- $2.03/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. 64 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, LONESTAR ($5.19, scores 73) and Dicey Dungeons ($14.99, scores 71) both come in lower.
Critics scored it 89. Players sit 8 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,564 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 1 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 12.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 188, 15 times as much.
7 years after release it still had 15.0K people in it at once.
At 12.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
85% start to 56% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
15.0K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
1 turn away from winning, I drew 4 burn and 1 curse... Then I Alt+F4. 10/10. (Yes this sh!t literally happened).
My only complaint with Slay the Spire is how devastatingly addictive this game is. I pressed Play then woke up in a daze a week later, having done nothing with my free time but binge the game obsessively for 40+ hours.
I just did not enjoy this game, unfortunately. It doesn't feel like you are rewarded for playing this game - and it also feels like whatever happens to your run feels more randomized than as a result of strategy. I've tried to get into this game multiple times, I had a few really good runs that just ended up from me forcing my momentum to stop as I've hit an immovable object. I wouldn't recommend this game...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Slay the Spire scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/646570/slay-the-spireThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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