Slay The Spire finally hit Android; I noticed this at 6am 'last night'.

I've been waiting forever for a mobile version of this hit -- been playing knock-offs and wannabes for years. If you already play and love it on another platform, this is somewhat irrelevant news for you. I can guarantee it's better in any other format, but it is perfectly functional on a decent sized tablet. Definitely too small and eye-straining for a phone (as I felt about Diablo Immortal, coincidentally).

I mean, I could have played it on PC or PS4 or whatever, but it always struck me as a perfect sort of play-anywhere tablet game, and the fact that I didn't get to sleep until 9am confirms it.

I was a little worried that some of the knock-offs (some of which are genuinely quite good) might 'improve' on the old model, but StS so far is clearly a case of 'original and the best'.

Yay.

I use my phone primarily as an alarm clock. Sometimes people call me I guess.

Monster Train is another excellent game in that genre, it’s not on mobile but that’s what steam link is for.

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Monster Train is another excellent game in that genre, it’s not on mobile but that’s what steam link is for.

I am way too old for these 'remote' features, I have to admit. I'm also way too old to be caring about what I might be missing out on when what I have is perfectly satisfactory. The simple reason why I didn't play StS on PC was that I am very much a 1-2 game per platform type of person, and there just wasn't room for it. The tablet sort of breaks that tendency because I don't sit down and turn it on to play; I turn it on because I am sitting down (or lying down) and have some time to kill. And in that regard StS is damn near perfect as a mobile game that doesn't require a net connection, doesn't function on some bullshit f2p timer system and doesn't have mtxes.

Arguably I could just use the Switch in a similar way but it's still a dedicated gaming system (and currently hooked up to the TV for Mario Kart sessions with friends overseas). The tablet occupies an interesting space where I can play, read, watch, browse, post...I dunno, I'm a child of the 80s and still sort of blown away that the datapad from Star Trek The Next Generation basically became a reality.

Conversely, I regularly forget where my phone is.

As for steam, it's just too full of games I'll never play but bought for cheap because they were cheap and well-regarded. I see a bunch of extremely good games in my folder, and still choose to load up one of my aforementioned 1-2 games anyway. For a very long time it was, of course, PoE. Right now it's Guild Wars 2...and by right now, I mean right now.

But thanks for the recommendation!

Thank you for sharing. I don't often play on pc, playing on the phone is very eye-strain, but carrying it is also convenient.

Defect smalldeck combo is laughably overpowered.

You don't even need Fusion, just get a Plasma off Nuclear Battery or Chaos and you can Recursion it indefinitely.

Joke balance.

I've done PONG, Atari, tons of other consoles, mobiles, etc. but I'm really a PC guy. I wish I had time to check that game out but for me, PC games is where it's at. I guess it would be good to check out while I'm not around a PC.

All achieved on Defect except for poison, Shivs and Feed. Common Sense too.