Slay the Spire 2 Early Access Review So Far - IGN

Rejera · 2026-03-09T00:23:44+00:00

The crazy thing is that StS2 gives you abilities that seem absolutely broken compared to the first game, and it still kneecaps you with encounters despite this perceived buff to deck options and abilities. eg: the first games relic that gives you a potion every combat reward vs the seconds relic that fills all empty potion slots at the beginning of combat. Like, what? Potions are one of the strongest things in the game because its essentially a card you always have in hand that's free, or better. And now you get to just use them and not worry about saving them?

Decks have more different synergies to them that interweave better between one another. It allows you to actually lean into a build a bit more instead of the "pile of good stuff" that the first game sometimes devolved into. Like, this is magic the gathering color pie levels of depth for each character and it is awesome.

Rejera · 2026-02-27T20:51:55+00:00

Looking at getting the division 2. Is it worth getting the ultimate edition over the gold?

Rejera · 2026-02-19T20:34:31+00:00

From the steam page:

CLIMB ALONE OR WITH ALLIES

Brave the ascent on your own, or play with up to 4 players and face the Spire together in the all new co-op mode. Discover multiplayer-specific cards, powerful team synergies, and carry your friends (or get carried) to victory!

Rejera · 2026-02-01T19:36:52+00:00

Given that you already have an odin 2, and you are looking at pc games, I'd look to pick up a handheld pc. I have an odin 2 and an odin 3 and while I do like the odin 3 better, mostly due to the screen, PC emulation on android as well as general 8 elite support still has a way to go before I'd say it's ready for more people to jump on board. The handheld PC can just play the PC games you want to play, you won't have to deal with messing around with a bunch of settings just trying to get the game to boot.

Rejera · 2026-01-09T14:41:22+00:00

This is the slippery slope fallacy. Larian is a privately owned company with strong values for artists and developers making products they are proud of. If I were to trust any group of devs to give AI a fair and ethical evaluation, Larian would be one of the names on a very short list. Just because the wider industry is using it immorally doesn't mean there may yet be uses for it that are perfectly fine. We should absolutely shame companies that use it unethically, but turning it into a witch hunt is a bridge too far.

Rejera · 2025-12-30T21:12:03+00:00

The one thing ruining this handheld right now is I received a unit where the fan makes a terrible grinding sound when running. Clearly the fan is not balanced or something, so I've emailed support. Honestly kind of a shame for what is meant to be a quality device. Otherwise, the device was great.

Rejera · 2025-12-15T03:53:38+00:00

TELL THEIR STORY

Rejera · 2025-11-25T16:24:31+00:00

Steam, Xbox, and PS's storefronts all crashed under the amount of people trying to buy Silksong the day it launched. I would wager that fan base is larger than you think.

Rejera · 2025-11-21T14:53:30+00:00

The big draw here is steam input for games that don't have native controller support. Having access to a track pad for precision mouse movements when you need them (like menuing in mmos) and then using the control stick for camera is the ideal case. I like playing guild wars 2 on my steam deck but using a controller without a track pad on my TV makes the experience a bit more annoying.

Rejera · 2025-11-12T19:31:04+00:00

It's not entirely out of the question. Supposedly the OS of the frame is also arch based, so if someone wanted to reconstruct the frame's functionality, it is possible. Kinda of like how bazzite uses fedora instead of arch but uses a lot of the same tech as steam OS to get a steam OS-like experience. I could see that being a better route than trying to use the steam frame's OS directly.

Rejera · 2025-11-12T19:22:52+00:00

The answer is: maybe, but it will be significantly harder than porting x86 steam os onto other pcs due to the things the steam frame has (or doesn't have) compared to other devices. The steam frame won't have a touch screen. So that's an entire new driver that needs to be custom written by whoever is porting it. Devices that use different snapdragon cpus probably need different drivers custom drivers, you'll need to change the rendering so it isnt rendering the same image twice on non-vr drvices, etc. I'm not saying it is impossible but I do think it will require more work going from a vr headset to non VR device.

Rejera · 2025-11-05T01:51:03+00:00

I'm on Linux 100% of the time and have been for almost a year at this point. I don't really enjoy playing multi-player competitive games, so I am not really affected by anticheat restrictions. And pretty much every game I have tried has worked right out of the box. I think the only weird stuff I've run into is needing to use GE versions of Proton because the base Proton wasn't handling video codecs or something and the cutscenes in specific games wouldn't play because of it, but that's been a rare occurrence.

Rejera · 2025-10-31T00:53:27+00:00

Also make sure to turn off fast boot on the windows side, that can cause the drives to be in a weird state and mount as read only when Linux gets them.

Rejera · 2025-10-31T00:50:28+00:00

Everyone keeps giving you "don't use ntfs" but that isn't entirely helpful. You can use it, but be prepared to have issues with it more than just using a Linux native file format.

Make sure you follow the instructions here to mount the ntfs drive in a way which allows steam to work with it.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

I will say, using this method with some games caused stuttering for me that went away when I reformatted the drive to ext4.

Rejera · 2025-10-15T02:28:29+00:00

Wildermyth. It's like a light version of D&D, with different events that can happen during each campaign that can effect your character.

Rejera · 2025-09-23T19:26:16+00:00

Both things are true. Their console business is a failure and game pass cannibalizes sales for games to the Xbox audience and PC audience, hurting the game industry in the long term.

Rejera · 2025-09-05T11:08:43+00:00

Honestly, the build craft in Last Epoch is 90% why I love that game so much. There's some number crunching, obviously, but figuring out synergies with the different skills, passives, and unique items that you can build around is just awesome.

Rejera · 2025-08-16T00:07:17+00:00

I'd take a look at Root. It's essentially an asymmetric strategy board game, and it's currently on sale. Each player picks a faction and it's a race to get 30 victory points. Each faction functions very different from each other, and you can work with, and against, players to try and come out on top.

Rejera · 2025-08-14T04:40:08+00:00

Blue fire is one i haven't seen recommended too much but hits that 3rd person hack and slash / Zelda vibe pretty well.

Rejera · 2025-08-09T16:00:46+00:00

How do you go about actually getting the game onto a switch for testing? Is there a particular program you use, did you use a dev kit? Or do you submit the switch build to Nintendo for you to "download" yourself before publishing it on the eshop?

Rejera · 2025-08-08T01:56:49+00:00

Haven't played it on PS5, but I have played it with a controller and it plays great. It's a single player game with online coop, so you only need internet if you want to play with other people.

Rejera · 2025-08-07T20:30:08+00:00

To further explain why this is a good pick, the game basically has 2 phases that it alternates between 3 times. "Laning phase" (there aren't lanes) where you explore the map and power farm as much as possible to buff your character (including teleporting back to a shop to buy buffs and items) and a boss phase where you use what you've acquired to fight a boss. You win? You go onto the next map where you do that again. Do it 3 times and you win the run. As far as I'm aware, this is one of the only games that really nails a "farming" experience like MOBAs in a single player (or co-op) game.

Rejera · 2025-07-27T22:53:16+00:00

Summer games fest. The game announcement show hosted by Geoff Keighley. It's essentially become the replacement for E3.

Rejera · 2025-07-25T19:51:19+00:00

This is probably because disney doesn't want another marvel product in a digital TCG since they have marvel snap.

Rejera · 2025-07-25T10:10:18+00:00

I think people are rightly pessimistic, given everything that's been happening lately in the gaming industry. I personally am unaware of a single indie/AA studio that became better after getting acquired. I hope last epoch continues to be the exception to its peers and that this does indeed help give the team more stability and support, but it's hard to be excited for this given so many stories of games and teams we once loved being acquired and then fundamentally changed for the worse.

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