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If you enjoy Slay the Spire you should try the opt-in Beta for a better experience

By Liam Dawe, 21 Jan 2020

Now that the huge update to Slay the Spire is live adding in The Watcher as the fourth character, Mega Crit Games have also updated their opt-in game engine upgrade Beta.

DragonEvo, a trading card game mixed with RPG elements you can play in your browser

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jan 2020

Oh how I do love deck-building, card games and strategy stuffs. If you do too, you might want to take a look over at DragonEvo.

A Long Way Down blends together Slay the Spire card combat with maze building - now in Early Access

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

One thing is for sure, Slay the Spire truly has kicked off a deck-building indie game revolution of sorts. More and more are releasing with deck-building and A Long Way Down seems like one of the better ones so far.

Core Defense aims to mix up the Tower Defense genre with deck-building and randomness - out now

By Liam Dawe, 16 Jan 2020

Core Defense, available today in First Access on itch.io is a Tower Defense game that's trying to be a little different. Throwing out predefined waves and rewards, in favour of a little random generation.

Slay the Spire patch 2.0 is out, bringing in The Watcher as the fourth character

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2020

As if I needed more reasons to dive into the Spire once again, Slay the Spire 2.0 is out which brings quite a lot of changes in addition to the fourth character.

Core Defense adds a little deck-building and randomization to Tower Defense

By Liam Dawe, 10 Jan 2020

Solo developer ehmprah from Berlin is currently working on Core Defense, a Tower Defense game that mixes things up with randomization and deck-building.

90s collectible card game Doomtrooper is being revived as a PC game, releasing for Linux this Spring

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jan 2020

Originally released in the 90s as a proper real-life game, the CCG (collectible card game) Doomtrooper was revived with a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2017.

Slay the Spire's fourth character to be released on January 14

By Liam Dawe, 4 Jan 2020

Slay the Spire, a fantastic deck-builder roguelike that's one of my personal favourites released last year is finally getting the fourth character out.

Deck-building rogue-lite RPG, A Long Way Down, entering Early Access this month

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

A Long Way Down mashes together elements of an RPG and a deck-building game, as you attempt to escape a maze and it's coming to Linux later this month.

Erannorth Reborn, a 'hardcore' deck-builder with tons of customization is coming to Linux

By Liam Dawe, 23 Dec 2019

Spyridon Thalassinos has confirmed that Erannorth Reborn, their positively rated deck-builder is on the way to Linux.

Add over 600 items to Dicey Dungeons with the great More Fluff mod

By Liam Dawe, 19 Dec 2019

Dicey Dungeons already has a lot of items, some of them quite amusing but how about 600 more to give your run just that extra bit of variation? Enter the More Fluff mod.

Card-battling mechanics with roguelike exploration, Space Grunts 2 is nearing a full release

By Liam Dawe, 4 Dec 2019

As Orangepixel celebrate 15 years of developing games, their latest with Space Grunts 2 is getting ready to leave Early Access.

The surprisingly good deck-builder Fate Hunters has arrived on GOG

By Liam Dawe, 18 Nov 2019

Releasing originally back in July, Fate Hunters is another deck-building roguelike filled with random encounters and just recently it was released DRM-free on GOG.

Dicey Dungeons outsold Terry Cavanagh's last two Steam games in the first month

By Liam Dawe, 16 Nov 2019

Terry Cavanagh, the indie developer behind VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and the latest Dicey Dungeons has a new blog post out talking about how well Dicey Dungeons has done and what's to come next.

Space Grunts 2 combines a turn-based rogue-like with card-based battles, out now

By Liam Dawe, 24 Sep 2019

Orangepixel just released their latest game Space Grunts 2, keeping a similar approach to the original with the roguelike experience and turn-based battles only this time with cards.

Drawn Down Abyss takes an action platformer and adds in card deck-building for abilities

By Liam Dawe, 20 Sep 2019

Platformers are probably the most common type of game available on any platform and yet, some developers are still able to make them seem a little unique.

Slay the Spire's fourth character is available for Beta testing

By Liam Dawe, 10 Sep 2019

Get ready to do some more deck building, as Slay the Spire now has a fourth character available for some testing in a new Beta.

One of our favourite games Slay the Spire is getting even better on Linux with a new beta up

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2019

Slay the Spire, a roguelike deck-builder from Mega Crit Games that released earlier this year is one of our absolutely favourite games. It's also getting even better and a beta is now up.