A new one starts every 24 hours and your character is assigned to you, as well as different stipulations. In Standard, you pick your character, build your deck, and slay the spire without any added complications. In addition to the characters, there are three game modes on the Switch version-Standard, Daily Climb, and Custom. Artifacts are essentially items that you collect, normally after defeating bosses, that give you permanent bonuses for the rest of your run. While climbing the spire, you also encounter random events, chests, and a merchant who sells you cards and artifacts. This is how you get stronger and how you start to build a unique strategy based on your own playstyle and preferences. Once picking a character, you choose which path you’d like to start with and begin building your way up to higher floors, mostly by killing enemies.Īfter defeating a monster, you pick between three different cards to add to your deck. Each is a distinct character with its own abilities and strengths. In Slay the Spire, you can play as either the Ironclad, the Silent, or the Defect. In other words, you must make your way to the highest floor of the dungeon by amassing a powerful deck of cards. Slay the Spire is a roguelike, deck-building strategy game developed by Mega Crit and published by Humble Bundle earlier in 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, Linux, and PS4.