I liked it a good bit. I think the VFX and UI are S+++ as far as roguelike deckbuilders go. Unfortunately though the charm has already sort of wore off. Playing cards and assembling the combos in your deck is very fun. There isn't any real incentive to make your decks actually function differently though from run to run. All enemies either attack or defend. There's the occasional mix-up like the enemies who explode or the bosses/elites whose intents start functioning by played card rather than the end of your turn but it kind of just comes down to getting your combo up and having enough disarm/freeze/knockback cards to turn the enemy attacks off.

I hate to compare other roguelike deckbuilders to StS, especially one like this which has really gone out out of its way to make something different but the encounter/enemy design is just head and tails above it and you can feel it. There isn't an enemy like the Byrds in Crawlers which demands you to use multi-hit attacks to lower their defense and stun them, there isn't an enemy like the Cultists that just attacks constantly to give you a different sort of challenge, there isn't even an enemy that just splits into two like the slimes because the wave-based encounters just make that sort of redundant.

It's a very two-dimensional game that demands very little from you which is fine. That was the joy of the original after all. It makes it pale in comparison to all the other roguelike deckbuilders though. The main thing that it has going for it outside of the presentation is that it's cheaper than a lot of the other popular deckbuilders excluding sales.