CELEBRATING INDIE GAMES

How Slay the Spire Defined a New Genre

A journey from David to Goliath

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5 min readSep 26, 2021

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There are plenty of roguelikes that deserve to be mentioned and praised: I discussed many of them in Game Design Deep Dive: Roguelikes. In this piece, which is all about celebrating indie games, I want to talk about how a little game (at launch) would go on to not only redefine…

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Josh Bycer
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Josh Bycer is the owner of Game-Wisdom and specializes in examining the art and science of games. He has over seven years of experience discussing game design.