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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No idea what "Slay the Spire" is so I had to look it up:

https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/slay-the-spire-switch/

Cartoon makes more sense now!

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Wow, that's pretty incredible that it hadn't reached you all these years. Slay the Spire's predecessor is Dream Quest, which, in combination with the tabletop card game Dominion, spawned a whole subgenre of deck-building games.

Indies' Lies, Pirates Outlaws, Monster Train, Tainted Grail: Conquest, Griftlands, and so many more are all direct descendants of StS. It was as revolutionary to indie gaming as FTL: Faster Than Light and Doukutsu Monogatari (Cave Story) were in their respective genres.

So there's a little bit of indie gaming history for you.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I don't have the energy to sift through 500 garbage indie games to find the one gem. ;) As a rule, I don't bother with indie titles.