
Griftlands / Xbox One /SeriesXS (Digital Code). To its credit, it's not a Slay the Spire clone and has pretty cool art and music also it's under $10. Griftlands is a deck-building rogue-like where you fight and negotiate your. It's a little more like a board game where you have resources (food, wood, companions, etc.) and you're trading one resource into another to keep your deck balanced, or consuming the resources to pass certain events or buy other cards. Frost is basically a game where you're an Arctic indigenous person trying to survive as you travel somewhere with a small tribe (I forget if you're specifically Inuit or they keep it general). I wouldn't say it's super combo mechanics-focused, and is instead a little more vibe-focused like Signs of the Sojourner.


i first heard of it on a waypoint podcast, but it honestly was pretty great even if not of the exact wheelhouse as the others listed.Ĭome to think of it, another game that's not exactly in the Slay the Spire wheelhouse is Frost. You probably already own it as it was part of the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality.

Beyond that Griftlands is more interesting visually and sound-wise, but StS has a slightly better UI (both are good) and is more interesting mechanically. Instead of creating a deck to fight people, you're creating a deck to have conversations with people. Griftlands is more of a choose your own adventure game with rogue-like card game mixed in, while Slay the Spire is pure rogue-like card game. Signs of the Sojourner is a fantastic game that you should probably check out if you get tired of the battling aspect of most deckbuilders.
