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Best Deckbuilders?

Stef

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Right after Slay The Spire and Monster Train what are the best deck building games available?

I tried:
- The Great American Circus (very boring)
- Mahokenshi (nice but a bit slow)
- Nadir (naah)
- Midnight Suns (nice)
- Inscryption (veeery good... for 1/3 :D)

Any other suggestion in the deckduilder/roguelike genre?

(note: talking about in-game deckbuilding, not games like Magic The Gathering or Marvel Snap with pre-game deckbuilding)

(also, not getting games in Early Access)
 
Syne

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Inscryption

I got mildly addicted to its gameplay loop

Curse you Stef you edited your OP right after I posted!
 
Darkstorne

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View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/981430/Gordian_Quest/

Very positive user reviews, and it's a looker too! Which is nice, coming off Slay the Spire (I love the game, but that art...)

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Syne

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Paroni

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I've had plenty of fun with Vault of the Void. It is not as flexible and wide as Slay the Spire, but very well polished. It does not have any card metaprogression entire toolkits of all characters are available from the start, which depending on player is either positive or a negative.


View: https://youtu.be/c6KP_7c0U58

One I always like to shill is Nowhere Prophet. It is a deckbuilder with board gamey token placement elements. It has an impeccable aesthetics and setting, it is set in a post-apocalyptic planet inspired by sci-fi'd Indian culture. As a word of warning, it is BRUTALLY hard and runs are long.


View: https://youtu.be/IadayVADjTw
 
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Stef

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Paroni said:
One I always like to shill is Nowhere Prophet. It is a deckbuilder with board gamey token placement elements. It has an impeccable aesthetics and setting, it is set in a post-apocalyptic planet inspired by sci-fi'd Indian culture. As a word of warning, it is BRUTALLY hard and runs are long.
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Played this a lot and enjoyed it immensely.

Basically a post-apocalypse Oregon Trail deck-builder.
 
Rolento

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I havent played too much but one that I don't see too often mentioned:


View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/698640/Deep_Sky_Derelicts/

One that is pretty unique and adds an almost narrative aspect:


View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170080/Foretales/

I've also heard good things about Iris and the Giant


View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127610/Iris_and_the_Giant/

Also there is Steamworld Quest


View: https://store.steampowered.com/app/804010/SteamWorld_Quest_Hand_of_Gilgamech/
 
Frankie Williamson

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There have been a lot of deckbuilders since I fell off the genre a couple of years ago.

Dang, Cobalt Core looks very much like something for me.
 
PinkSpider

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I'm going to need a details explanation how there is an after of our saviour which is STS. (I have an issue; must complete the daily crawl... they will return more for me one day).
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Cobalt Core is alright. A cross between STS and FTL; the cards aren't as memorable and I feel it probably won't have the 3k hour legs. And I remember as a teen thinking my 150 hours in Final Fantasy 7 was crazy.
 
zulux21

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Stef said:
Played this one A LOT! :)

Not properly a deck builder as you say, yet it scratches the very same itch. Excellent game.
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you ever mess with any of the mods :P?

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Phokal

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sorta left field, but what about Gloomhaven? For that sorta-board-game-with-cards that Midnight Suns does.

Or if you liked the social dynamics/story of Midnight Suns, maybe, I was a Teenage Exocolonist?

And there's Roguebook, by Richard Garfield?
 
FolderBrad

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Good ones here for sure. I want to mention Tainted Grail Conquest. Surprisingly atmospheric deck builder with good production values. Full voice acting too. The story progresses from run to run sorta like Hades. Like continuing story lines for characters you meet quests you've started.

The mechnics are very solid as well. Defo feel like people slept on this one.

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Tainted Grail: Conquest on Steam

A unique, infinitely replayable, story-driven hybrid between a deck-building Roguelike and an RPG game. Explore the ever-changing maps, fight with deadly enemies, and learn what happened to the cursed island of Avalon.
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Mr. Genuine

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Rolento said:
As someone who's solo played a ton of the physical game plus the new release, how does this compare or translate to digital? I'd pick it up but am waiting on a price drop.
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It's rated overwhelmingly positive, and I personally think it's pretty good. No bugs from what I've seen. It has a solo mode where you can play against bots with scalable difficulty, as well as an implementation of House Hegal from the board game.
 
SteveWinwood

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yes people are already talking about cobalt core, i love it

also bolatro is supposed to be coming out this year and the demo was super fun and i put too much time into it
 
OnionPowder

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KingFrost92

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Across the Obelisk is really fun, especially if you play multiplayer. It gives a lot of flexibility to your deck craft early in the run, allowing you to try a lot of different stuff run to run. There's a LOT of content in that game, almost to the point of being overwhelming, but after a few runs it all locks into place well. I'd recommend it - my friends and I put a good 100 hours in last year and there's still a lot to do.
 
ash32121

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I think one of the thing that draw me to play so much STS and Monster Train is how straight to the point these 2 games are.

You load in, pick a character/factions then you play the game and unlock card along the way.

The other deck building card game, imho, are putting more mechanic and make the game more complex, which, good if you like those type but I don't. I been bounced off so many time when I load in the game and it basically RPG but you play using card instead.

On that note, I'll say my 3rd favorite deck building game Night of Full Moon

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月圆之夜 (Night of Full Moon) on Steam

"Night of the Full Moon" is a stand-alone roguelike card game. Take adventure into Black Forest. Random event, random plot leads to different endings.
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Edit: also it's free, and you can buy additional contents. One of the problem is the TL is still kinda spotty in some place.
 
SteveWinwood

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KingFrost92 said:
Across the Obelisk is really fun, especially if you play multiplayer. It gives a lot of flexibility to your deck craft early in the run, allowing you to try a lot of different stuff run to run. There's a LOT of content in that game, almost to the point of being overwhelming, but after a few runs it all locks into place well. I'd recommend it - my friends and I put a good 100 hours in last year and there's still a lot to do.
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Yes it's a really fun multiplayer game. We really liked it. It's probably not the greatest deckbuilder, and progressing through the areas gets kind of samey after a while. But we liked unlocking things. The star is obviously the multiplayer thing.
 
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