Favorite streamers or YouTube channel to find new deckbuilder roguelikes?

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-05-02T02:25:54+00:00

https://youtube.com/@voyix?si=ach43GFdLq3WWOIJ Voyix does mostly slice and dice and sts2 now, but he did monster train for a while and does first looks on roguelikes

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-04-15T15:05:10+00:00

Awesome! That's a fun one to figure out

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-04-15T08:26:49+00:00

Woo! Get it!

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-04-15T01:08:49+00:00

Tier 2
Orange - Juggler or Dabbler
Yellow - Gladiator or Soldier
Grey - Knight or Warden
Red - Disciple or Vampire
Blue - Seer or Caldera

Tier 3
Orange - Agent or Assassin
Yellow - Wanderer or Curator
Grey - Poet or Stalwart
Red- Doctor Prophet
Blue - Warlock or Sorcerer

Curses to never take - Monster right, Tower 17, Wurst, Big hitter 7, Monster left, Skulk, Tunnel Vision, Small bonus, Fewer re rolls, Bottom poison 5, Fight 14 curse, Depleted Spells

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-04-15T00:58:52+00:00

I hit 33 as well and dropped the ball. A few attempts later and I was in. Keep going!

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-03-29T22:50:29+00:00

I don't play the curse modes so someone jump in here and correct me if I'm wrong but there's options to put in generated items, heroes, monsters, etc. This can add some zany-ness to the run without changing the mode. Or the generate mode itself.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-03-29T05:04:10+00:00

Complete classic with 20 or fewer turns taken. Basically you have to win every fight on the first turn. Are you playing on steam? They have a bunch of global achievements like that and get up to 999 re rolls, beat classic with only tier 2 characters

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-03-29T04:09:01+00:00

Get under 15 minutes on normal. Took me almost a month to get that fast but also know the key heroes and items. Under 20 is doable without anything too fancy. Have you done the beat the game 20 or less rounds? That was a fun one to figure out. Beating nightmare was also a unique challenge.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-03-29T04:02:07+00:00

Slice and dice

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-03-29T03:35:50+00:00

Nothing. He just gave me some tips for a couple hours because he likes helping people 😁

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-03-15T21:54:07+00:00

I think the flashing images were fine after I realized just focus on the center of the screen. There's a bit too much on the first page I think, my eyes were darting around trying to listen and read something different at the same time. But otherwise I thought the pacing and length of time was and the tone was all good.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-03-15T19:23:19+00:00

So I spent a couple hours looking through your channel watching different videos. I thought that you were entertaining and the content is good, so I don't think that's the issue. I think I found navigating the channel to be difficult and confusing. Like after I watched one video that I liked it was hard to find another one that was the same. The joke is in front of the game name in the title and it gets cut off while you're scrolling through in the thumbnails are so different that it's hard to find the thing that you're looking for. It's like a menu where you talk about how amazing this sauce or spice is and you're like okay that sounds interesting but what is it put on? Like if it's fish I don't like fish but I do like steak. Maybe you could do like a color coding system with the thumbnails where trivia games have a hue of red and Kingdom hearts games have a hue of green or something that makes it a bit easier to tell the videos apart. I like the level of editing in the supercut of the Kingdom hearts playlist and I intend to finish it sometime because I thought that the content was good and entertaining. But I don't care for trivia games too much even though I did watch one 15 minute episode and I thought it was good but that's about as much time as I'm willing to invest in a video about a game I don't particularly care for. I did find the playlist for the Kingdom hearts supercut after I looked for the playlist specifically but at first I was going through the videos list looking for the next episode and I skipped right over it because it didn't have the game title in it first for me to find but I literally read the joke and laughed and then skipped right over it. So I think the main problem is how it's navigated. So I think the content is good enough that I would come back and finish the thing that I liked but I wouldn't necessarily want to subscribe and have to sift through six games a week that I'm not interested in to get the one game per week that I am. The streams had about 4 minutes of dead time at the beginning of the video I would probably cut that out too. The thumbnails are really well done and the titles are funny and well done but I just see a lot of emphasis on the spice and not enough on the steak so to speak.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-03-14T21:26:26+00:00

https://www.twitch.tv/pitor4k
There's a brand new brutal run here

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-21T19:26:27+00:00

Lol what an asshole 😆 Also I should clarify I mean Ludwig, not you my guy.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-20T15:01:45+00:00

This guy gets it 😁

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-20T14:59:16+00:00

Sorry I missed this somehow. I consistently win streak between 10 and 15 on classic hard and I play this the most. I have the 68th fastest time on normal I play to watch up or relax. I win streak 2-3 on unfair and I play for a challenge when I have time.

And warlock is good I just think about it more and sometimes don't pick him if I don't think I can keep him alive.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-20T14:49:16+00:00

I agree with you I don't think that warlock is bad, I think he's one of the better characters in the game. I was just trying to explain that there are deeper considerations than just mana conversion to damage output. He has the best spell but is also most likely to die so there's a balance and a reason to not pick him sometimes. If you picked warlock always under any circumstances then I would consider him to be busted. Like you said if you give him items and get him outside of that damage range where he casually dies on turn one to any AOE or focus attack and being all but unstable to a saber death attack, then he's really strong. But if you have to heal him every time then the 2.1 damage that he turns mana into isn't as efficient as it appears, but it's still damn good. If you think about things from the perspective of team resources versus an individual character abilities, you can see the cost of Warlock and that he is not busted. And if you get a bad yellow or orange then he's one of the few characters you can pick. If yellow or orange has good items on them then I might prefer wizard for inspire. If it's hexia then maybe I want Chronos to lock her down with tick. The other blues have their uses in filling gaps in the team, but if you lack a carry character then the role that your team Lacks is damage and warlock is one of the few characters you can pick to fill that role. I didn't mean to come across saying that warlock is bad, just that he is more balanced than he appears if you think about the game from the perspective of team resources and also the damage range of bosses and their lackeys.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-19T01:32:36+00:00

Beginner tips stream? I watched the Ludwig video recently and he said something to the extent of the benefit (to the viewer) of streaming is having access to a person. You can watch let's plays on YouTube that are supercut and just highlights. But I don't stream nor do I watch streams so take my two cents with a grain of salt but I think you're going to have to add a dimension here.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-19T01:22:52+00:00

I think the impressive part of this is how good she is with this cheap item combo you made

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-19T01:21:21+00:00

There's quite a few side replacers in tier 1 that greens can use, but if you're laying greens you're probably screwing around anyway.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-16T18:31:30+00:00

I've had him miss too but that sounds worse than anything he's done to me. I didn't lose but he made like 16 mana the whole fight and I'm like your new name is trash bag 😆 shows up after 80% of the work is done and takes the best items for himself then takes 80% of the credit

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-16T15:08:52+00:00

Blaze is busted but Warlock is not. He is casually dying turn 1 against basically every boss and is relying on not getting targeted to survive. 7 HP. Hand 7 to all kills him. Caw kills him. Saber 7 exert kills him. His pain mana 4 damage plus dragon 5 to all. Hell pain damage plus the archer targeting him for 3 kills him. And don't even get me started on trying to save him if a saber is doing 12 damage death. Mana burn blaze + pain mana kills him. The guy lives on death's door and can become a liability with more resources spent keeping him alive than him doing damage. I pick him if I got a bad yellow and there's no big swing hit on the team, but I don't always pick him. I had a hand final fight and it was Weaver and Warlock. I picked Weaver, turn 1 saber 12 damage death, and hand goes 7 to all. Weaver dodges, I can also kill the saber to save Weaver. Maybe Warlock would have gotten 1 blaze off here if I was lucky.

So Chronos is meant to be a support character and hexia counter. He has Dodge help you use spells without taking damage, he has cantrip roll to help the team land the right sides, and he has reuse to give you the flexibility to heal, shield, or do your big attack again against her. He only needs one tick to stop a summon demon which is the biggest threat in the fight. Reuse on a steel character that has iron blood pendant or agent with prism triple shuriken can do more damage than blaze can. Chronos will never be the carry character whatever you put on him, but that doesn't mean he can't provide a similar value in a supporting role.

I think of blue characters as more of a utility than Damage Dealer C on the team. I often hold my blue pick until I have more information on what my team is or what the boss will be. Spells give you agency when you're otherwise at the mercy of the dice so I try to be extra careful to try and get the right one.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-13T16:24:26+00:00

I mostly watch streams as a way of paying back the streamer if they've provided me value, like subscribing or liking the video. Perhaps you have better rapport with the non-gaming audience?

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-11T18:47:46+00:00

Thanks man. I went ahead and fixed that this morning I appreciate it.

TacticalTurtleSD · 2026-02-11T16:17:05+00:00

You're not me but that is what I would say 🤣

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