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Slay the Spire: The Board Game

Experience the thrill of cooperative deck-building as you ascend the Spire together.

2024
Asymmetric Cinematic Cooperative Cooperative Coordination Deck builder Fantasy Narrative Tactical +1 more

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You may like this if you enjoy…

  • Dramatic moments that feel like a movie
  • A story you build over the course of play
  • Short-horizon optimization and clever combos
  • Two teams pulling against each other

You may not like this if…

  • You prefer games under an hour

Slay the Spire: The Board Game is a 2024 board game for 1 to 4 players, ages 12 and up. A typical game runs 30 to 150 minutes and plays at medium complexity. It was designed by Anthony Giovannetti and Casey Yano and published by Contention Games.

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Slay the Spire: The Board Game is a cooperative deck-building adventure where players craft unique decks, encounter bizarre creatures, and discover powerful relics to ultimately slay the Spire. Each player selects a character with unique abilities and starts with a simple deck, which they can improve by adding and removing cards during the game. The game is divided into Acts, and players can choose to continue, stop, or save and continue another time at the end of each Act. Victory is achieved by defeating the final Boss, while a player's death results in a loss for the party.

Designed by

2

Anthony Giovannetti, Casey Yano

Artwork by

1

Anailis Dorta

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Slay the Spire: The Board Game – A Two Top Review 52:17
Podcast · The Game Table Podcast Slay the Spire: The Board Game – A Two Top Review

Josh Taylor (Blimey Cow) joins the podcast for the second week in a row as he and Jared sit down at the Two-Top table to discuss the cooperative, roguelike, deckbuilding game Slay…

Mar 5, 2025