r/slaythespire 24d ago

ANNOUNCEMENT The Neowsletter - March 2025

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r/slaythespire Apr 03 '20

Dev Response! Frequently Asked Questions - Read Before Posting!

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This thread is aimed at answering common beginner questions about the game. However, it is not intended to teach in-depth strategies.

If you have a simple (1-2 sentence) question that's not answered below, leave a comment and I or another community member should be able to help. If your question is more complicated, feel free to make your own post about it.

General:

1. Are there any official mobile ports?

2. Why does Slay The Spire keep crashing on my IOS device?

  • Make sure Low Power Mode is turned off when you launch the game. You can re-enable it once you start playing.

3. Do the Android and IOS versions have the same content as the PC version?

  • Android and IOS are both up to date with the current PC version of the game.

4. Are there any card/relic tier lists or decklists?

  • No. Decklists and following an archetype is not encouraged, since what card/relic is "the best" depends heavily on what your deck currently has and what enemies you're going to be facing in the near future.

5. How do I unlock the characters?

  • The Silent is unlocked by completing a run with the Ironclad, and the Defect is unlocked by completing a run with the Silent. You do not need to win these runs, just complete them. The Watcher is unlocked by winning a run with any character while the Defect is unlocked.

6. Will there be any more new characters or card changes? Does the card "Foreign Influence" mean there's going to be a 5th character with the yellow color?

7. Is the final boss based on what deck I've built?

  • No. Just like the map layout, store contents, and enemies you face, the final boss is determined when the run is first generated.

8. Is there anything beyond Act 3?

  • Spoilers: An optional Act 4 can be unlocked with the Keys.

9. Do I get anything for winning?

  • When you defeat the Act 3 boss with a character, you unlock Ascension levels with them. These are incrementally challenging versions of the game, providing scaling difficulty for those who want more of a challenge. Spoilers: If you beat the Act 4 boss with a character on any Ascension level, you unlock Beta Art for that character's cards. If you defeat the Act 4 boss with all characters, you unlock Beta Art for Colorless and Curse cards as well.

10. Do I keep anything in-between runs?

  • No. However, your points are retained, and at certain point levels, you'll unlock new cards and relics that can show up in future runs.

Strategy:

1. How do I get good at each character then?

  • In general, simply playing the game and learning what works in what situations is the best way to learn, However, a few general tips would be:
  1. Don't try to force an archetype (like a deck of all poison cards). These can be effective, but skipping good cards in the hopes of getting more archetypal cards will hurt your chance of winning.
  2. Think ahead to what elites and bosses you'll be fighting this act. Many of them require your deck to have different capabilities (such as Reptomancer requiring you to have AOE damage, and Giant Head requiring you to have scaling damage.
  3. Always try to have a well rounded deck. Don't go all-out in getting defensive cards and neglect offensive cards (and vice-versa). If you can, try to have a mix of Burst, Scaling, and AOE damage, so you can deal with the various enemy types you'll run across.

A very helpful post by user /u/screwyioux with more detail on how to learn strategy and why certain choices matter can be found here. I highly recommend taking a look if you feel like you're stuck losing and want to improve your play.

2. Scaling? AOE? Burst?

  • "Scaling Damage" refers to sources of damage that continue to get stronger the more you use them in combat, such as Claw or Poison. "AOE (Area Of Effect)" refers to cards that deal damage to multiple (or all) enemies at once, like Whirlwind. "Burst" refers to being able to deal a lot of damage all at once, like having several Backstabs.

3. Is Snecko Eye good or bad?

  • Snecko Eye is very good, unless the majority of cards in your deck are very low cost. The +2 draw alone makes the relic worthwhile, and the effect that randomizes card costs will on average lower the cost of cards in your hand. Snecko also gets dramatically better the more card draw and high cost cards you have in your deck. Content creator Jorbs has an in-depth video discussing the value of Snecko Eye.

4. Why do I see so many posts about Corruption and Dead Branch?

  • Corruption is a very strong card on its own, since being able to play all your defensive cards for free can let you end hallway (and possibly even boss) fights quickly and efficiently. Dead Branch makes this even better, since it'll often generate more block or helpful cards that snowball you to victory.

Other:

1. "Deck" Vs. "Draw & Discard Pile"?

  • Your "Deck" is the cards that you start each combat with. Your Draw Pile & Discard Pile are a temporary version of your Deck that's used in combat, and all changes to it last for that combat only. Most enemies that debuff you in combat (like the Sentries) will affect your Draw Pile. Most cards that permanently affect your run (such as Lesson Learned) effect your Deck.

2. Why didn't Fairy In A Bottle/Lizard Tail revive me?

3. What do the subreddit user flairs mean? How do I get one?

  • Check this post for an explanation on all the user flairs, and how you can assign one to your account.

r/slaythespire 7h ago

META Pick philosophers stone and this is your guaranteed first fight in act 2

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r/slaythespire 9h ago

GAMEPLAY Nice Intangible ya got there

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Be a shame if I-


r/slaythespire 8h ago

SPIRIT POOP The Soylent

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r/slaythespire 3h ago

DISCUSSION TIL you can’t Exhume an Exhume

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Currently have a Dead Branch/Corruption run going and had Feel No Pain in play and randomly created two Exhumes in a row. I thought, “hot damn! What an easy infinite block loop!” But when I played the second exhume, the first one wasn’t listed to be unexhuasted. I guess it kinda makes sense because of how easy of an infinite it would be, but based on how many infinites other characters have (cough Watcher cough), I feel like this should be available for the Iron Clad… It’s not /that/ much different than a hologram loop infinite on Defect, but I guess it’s easier to get going than getting two 0 cost holograms. I dunno, but it feels like a weird choice to make Exhume unexhumable.

Seed for the interested: 3I3ZTY8U5P02J on PC

First elite drops branch. Slimbo Slice drops Corruption

Edit: because I was playing with corruption, I forgot that upgraded Exhume is already 0 cost. So it would just be an instant two-card infinite without any set up if you had two of them. So I definitely understand why the exclusion was made, but still was an interesting moment for me


r/slaythespire 5h ago

WHAT'S THE PICK? Slay-by-Comment Season 7 Day 356: IDK, none of these options seem very memey… What’s our play? Whatever comment is most upvoted in 24 hours is what we’ll do.

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r/slaythespire 7h ago

ART/CREATIVE Act 2 is tough

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r/slaythespire 17h ago

ART/CREATIVE Day #286 of drawing badly until StS2 comes out

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r/slaythespire 19h ago

GAMEPLAY I just realized this combo results in +3 strength for the entire battle.

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I never thought it would, but it appears that the artifact cancels out the strength reduction after the first turn. It was not my intended effect, but it was welcomed. I’m sure many of you have figured this out a long time ago, but it made me smile that after hundreds of hours, I’m still figuring things out.


r/slaythespire 5h ago

GAMEPLAY Perhaps I’m exhausted

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r/slaythespire 3h ago

ART/CREATIVE The defects been watching a bit to much my hero

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It's all for one and doom and gloom, terrible card combo but the gloom tendrals kinda look like black whip. Also theres to many freaks who like mha, don't associate me with them.


r/slaythespire 39m ago

STS2 What do y’all think Flick-Flack will do?

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r/slaythespire 12h ago

ACCOMPLISHMENT/ACHIEVEMENT Got pretty drunk, killed my first heart after 360 hours.

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Clearly I’m not very good at this game but after trying to do nothing but kill a heart for the past month I finally got it last night (A0) for the first time ever.

My wife could not have cared less so I wanted to share. This is one of my all time favorite games and I love how much I’m still learning about it. Now back to trying to get past A11.

Thanks all!


r/slaythespire 7h ago

GAMEPLAY Malaise is fun

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r/slaythespire 12h ago

SPIRIT POOP Me when I walk in the front door and Bluetooth connect to the toilet

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r/slaythespire 11h ago

WHAT'S THE PICK? Might be the only time I hesitate when presented with Pyramid

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r/slaythespire 15h ago

BOARD GAME Our first game with the organizer that was shared on here before 👌

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Thanks a lot to u/SumRandomDuck for sharing the files for the print! I think it looks awesome and the table looks far less chaotic.


r/slaythespire 1d ago

CUSTOM CONTENT Joke card? Maybe. Packed with potential synergy? Ask the horse

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r/slaythespire 17h ago

ACCOMPLISHMENT/ACHIEVEMENT Guys, i did it!

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r/slaythespire 1d ago

SPIRIT POOP grief

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r/slaythespire 1d ago

ACCOMPLISHMENT/ACHIEVEMENT I present to you; an 8 billion damage searing blow

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alongside a 6 billion damage multicast


r/slaythespire 8h ago

META Only true gamers can read my roll

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Those who know Difficulty: phonepc


r/slaythespire 21h ago

SPIRIT POOP Name a better duo

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I'll wait


r/slaythespire 3h ago

GAMEPLAY I think watcher is kinda weak...

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Do you guys know if it will receive a buff anytime soon so that it is balanced? Jokes aside, I'm currently on ascension 13, got any tips for the last ascension levels?


r/slaythespire 4h ago

ACCOMPLISHMENT/ACHIEVEMENT The game decided giving me brimstone with fiend fire wasn’t op enough, so they gave me dead branch XD

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If I had a limit break this would be even more hilarious lol


r/slaythespire 1d ago

CUSTOM CONTENT Blasphemy likes for every other character (Tried to balance them somewhat)

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Renewal can't be blocked and works like boot to deal 9999 damage, bypassing intangible. Self damage still counts as HP loss.

Frenzied Finale will let you draw and discard as much as you want (targets like mayhem), so it might be too easy of an infinite. Still can't play status, curse, or unplayable cards and stops, so that's a decent weakness I guess. Maybe it should have been "you can no longer play cards from next turn" instead of "die" to represent the silent using everything she has in a panic and now has nothing to fight with. Which coincidentally gives poison value.

Crisis protocol+ gives extra passive trigger for each orb except plasma by pushing the evoke to the next turn. This can be bad in certain cases. Main one being no longer getting energy from plasma or getting attacked. Probably the weakest of the 4 but not sure how to improve without making it busted. Maybe cost down to 1 as well.