{"id":20571,"date":"2020-06-05T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/05\/slay-the-spire-the-decades-best-deckbuilding-game-coming-to-ios-in-june-2\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T10:15:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:15:03","slug":"slay-the-spire-the-decades-best-deckbuilding-game-coming-to-ios-in-june-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/05\/slay-the-spire-the-decades-best-deckbuilding-game-coming-to-ios-in-june-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Slay the Spire, the decade\u2019s best deckbuilding game, coming to iOS in June"},"content":{"rendered":"

Android version also teased; exact June release date for $10 game coming soon.<\/h2>\n
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Slay the Spire<\/em><\/a>‘s success story is a remarkable one. As one of thousands of games to land<\/a> on Steam in 2017, this fusion of roguelite progression and “deckbuilding<\/a>” mechanics, made by a heretofore unknown development team out of Seattle, managed to become a phenomenon due entirely to word of mouth. The game has since surpassed its “2.0” milestone<\/a> and climbed the download charts on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n

Yet the game has stayed an arm’s length away from smartphone platforms this whole time, in spite of being built primarily using libGDX, a flexible, open source development framework with smartphone-specific hooks. That changes this month, as the development team at MegaCrit ironically used its Steam community page<\/a> on Wednesday to announce Slay the Spire<\/em>‘s next platform: iOS.<\/p>\n

The game’s first smartphone port will launch at $9.99 “this month,” according to the developers at MegaCrit, with an exact date likely coming during the upcoming Guerrilla Collective game reveal stream<\/a>, currently scheduled for June 6-8. (“You should try to tune in” on the event’s first day, June 6, according to MegaCrit’s latest update.)<\/p>\n

That price will include every single feature included in the game’s existing versions on PCs and consoles—with MegaCrit acknowledging, via a joke about “anime mods<\/a>,” that it won’t include Steam Workshop features. Though the post acknowledges plans for an Android port, MegaCrit wasn’t ready to estimate when fans should expect that one; “we took the decision to launch the iOS version first.”<\/p>\n

If you’re wondering what the StS<\/em> hubbub is about, consider this comment from our last feature on the game, which included a lovely interview with MegaCrit’s staff<\/a> about the game’s genesis. As Ars commenter digital0verdose wrote in 2019:<\/p>\n

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I must have watched half a dozen or so videos on this game trying to understand the appeal. Finally I just downloaded a copy to get my head around what I was missing and within a short period went and bought a copy on Steam. This, for me, was one of those games whose appeal only really came through with hands on play. StS<\/em> was a fun game whose repetitiveness was not as tiring as I initially expected. Definitely a good purchase and I recommend it to those who, like me, are not really into card based games as you may be surprised.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wednesday’s announcement includes a mere two screen shots, but they’re enough to confirm what we’ve assumed for some time: that StS<\/em>‘s card-based gameplay will translate neatly to a smartphone’s touch interface. (And thank goodness; I for one am tired of using makeshift solutions like Steam Link or Xbox Game Streaming to run the game on my phone, as both of these require a gamepad of some sort.) And the StS<\/em> iOS timing is perfect, as another contender to the deckbuilding-adventure throne, Monster Train<\/em><\/a>, has been getting our attention (and racking up our play time counters) since its May 21 launch on Steam.<\/section>\n

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See Campaign: <\/strong>https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1102190\/Monster_Train\/<\/a>
Contact Information:<\/b>
SAM MACHKOVECH at sam.machkovech@arstechnica.com <\/p>\n

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