As a game dev making a roguelike deckbuilder, this game is the gold standard of the genre and my primary inspiration, I’d like to specifically point out its usage of tooltips that explain keywords when you hover over cards, the relatively simple enemies in act 1, and the fact that most losses are due to taking damage over the course of multiple fights.

I remember when Mercenaries came out and people hoped it was going to be like StS. This game is a masterpiece.

3:27 slay the spire is the game that changed that for me. It made me appreciate using consumables to get through a tight spot way more

I can NOT believe our boy first tried all four classes back to back, that is INSANE! Good job mr. Ran!

Such a good game. Just a genuinely healthy gaming experience. Low stress, enables high level and low level gameplay, replayability, pick it up and drop it whenever, etc. I have 600+ hours in this game and still enjoy it.

Not using things because they could be useful later is sometimes referred to as collector’s anxiety

The title should've been "I Spent 10 Hours Slaying The Spire to Prove IT'S RIDICULOUS"

Would also recommend Monster Train. Has similarities to Slay the Spire but plays out a lot differently

design, pacing, learning curve, mechanics. Slay the spire litereally slays. with so much build variety, replayability and the outstanding modders out there

This is genuinely one of my favorite games. For people who love hearthstone dungeon runs, this is like that but times x1000.

If memory serves me correctly, this is how they advertised Mercenaries when they first showed how the mapping would be in the "choose your next path" and "each run will be different". Now you see why Mercenaries flopped as hard as it did lmao

7:51 I wonder if he got to experience a pandora box run

Have 450 hours in the game and recently went for completionist. Man try to get all the trophies in this game is so fun. I normally never do platinum/completionist stuff in games but this game just hits different.

STS was easily my game of the year when it came out. Insane depth.

It’s so fitting how you were biting your nails and being kinda nervous with defect but then went straight into confidence with the watcher

Just for context, you start the game on the lowest difficulty, the game (optionally) gets harder each run.

I love playing the Defect the most. Something about his card and the orb mechanic clicks with me

Great video, it’s always good to see someone enjoy this game as much as I do. If you liked this one you might enjoy monster train, it’s another deck building rogue like with a sort of tower defense theme

Slay the Spire is one of my favorite games. Happy to see you try it!

A frost prime collab would be soooo cooool! I feel like you guys would have great chemistry.

If you liked slay the spire you should definitely try Night of the Full Moon. It's has similar mechanics but with 9 characters with different cards.

I’ve beat each class in Ascension 20 multiple times, but this is impressive. All classes first try 👌Well done

It IS ridiculous. Ridiculously good and ridiculously addicting, that is.

My mom wants to know when you are coming over again.

PLEASE PLAY MORE! I would love to watch Rarran climb to A20... it's a trek and a half and there's so many more interesting builds to discover!

Thank you Mr. Rarran, i love slay the spire

Ah yes, the "first try" where you already did ~1.5k to the heart before you even started the game. I think Rarran sometimes forgets that not every single person in the world is at his intellectual level of "genius".

I can't imagine trying to learn all 4 characters back to back like that

Please make more of these videos, I’m new here but I really enjoy watching you play. Is there a VOD channel?

Masterpiece, wish there are more content though, it’s a very minimalist game

This game is so much fan! glad to hear you also enjoyed it a lot. Really impressive that you first tried it with all classes too! good stuff

kewl vids, full runs would've been insane hope we might see some at some point :3

The class-based deck builder rpg like this is genuinely one of the cooler hyper-specific genres. I recommend Chrono Ark since you enjoyed this. It's kinda brutal, but the variety of characters to build your party (yes, party) makes it so fun.

Great video. I wholeheartedly recommend playing Astrea : The Six-sided Oracle next since it's a deck builder where your cards are dice. It's insane

Great video, great editing! Slay the Spire tends to be extremely fun to play, a bit less to watch, but this was really entertaining!

I'm normally just here for the hearthstone content but would absolutely watch a series where you work your way up to Ascension 20. This game becomes absolutely bonkers later and has enough synergies and variety it stays fresh for another 300 hours.

For me, this is the moust devilsh thing a dev team ever came up since Darkest Dungeon. Like, serious, the game is always ploting 5 steps ahead of you in every possible answer you give it. The countless time i survived with Lucky, isnt half of the times i became op and just losse anyway.

Great game, great vid :) Hopefully this takes off and we can get some challenge runs in the future!

Never seen one of your videos and this was very enjoyable to watch!

Watched both the stream and the video. Phenomenal content!!

the editing is on point my guy keep up the fantasist work

1k hours in and 2 doses of 100%ing it, I still come back to good ol reliable slay the spire

If people are looking for a co op game similar to Slay the Spire. I highly recommend Hellcard. Does have single player but it's at it's best when played with 1 or 2 friends. Absolute baller game, shame StS doesn't have co op

I find it even nore interesting on how you've managed to flaunt yourself easily on these runs Especially the watcher + Ragnarok combo With that said Ggwp for also defeating the heart of the spire

Watcher gameplay is like "Will Wrath stance kill me or let me kill the enemy?" every fight

Now we just need to get Rarran to play Slay The Spire: Downfall, a Standalone DLC sized mod to Slay The Spire.

If you're playing more deck building roguelikes I really recommend wildfrost. The art and music rules and the gameplay is similar to spire but with the addition of positioning and turn order

Chat was ruining this first reaction with their backseating sadly. Great video but still..

I picked up slay the spire this week due to the autumn sale. I find it way more difficult. it took me multiple tries to beat the game for the iron clad, reject and watcher. but the silent is so fun to play for me. every time i use that class, i win. very fun game.

Well now I just feel awful about myself watching you first try all 4 classes....

Hmm... Weird that you have 2,900 damage on the heart in the past for a 'first completed run of slay the spire' Otherwise great video

That was a fun and really entertaining video.

"Look how fast I breeze through an elite." *Immediately cuts to the end of the fight. Yeah, wow. That was really fast.

I loved the part when rarran went "it's rarran time!" and rarran'ed all over the spire

Please do the Downfall mod at some point, it adds 1 character and 10+ bosses to play as

This game reminds me of my favorite anime Druga no Tou, wich was based on the game of the same name, wich probably was the first game with this idea of "climbing a tower that goes to the heavens while fighting monsters through its floors"

One thing I noticed about this game, compared to Hearthstone, is mechanics tend to work how you'd hope they work. If you ever sit there, unsure of how an interaction will be, but you have 2 ideas, it's probably the idea that you want it to be.

Would love to see you play this again

17:19 this is what everyone was expecting from mercenaries. Imagine if mercenaries worked like this.

I love Slay the Spire. It's SO addictive and it's so rewarding to play.

lmao i was just playing this last night, game is fun asf especially w mods. never would have imagined my fav hearthstone player playing it

Rarran, protip: Slay The Spire viewers *adore* full gameplay videos. Easy content! Good job, too!

Had to skip to the end just to see what your verdict was, very happy that you loved it! It's super fun! And well done on beating it first try on all characters! :O

videos that make me realise i am way worse at this game than i thought lol. i will never beat the heart and i have made peace with that

I would be so hyped to see him come back to StS and try out the Downfall mod and their more complicated characters, or _maybe_ even the Packmaster mod. The downfall mod is definitely the most polished mod out there, almost feeling like the base game, and the characters, while sometimes being a bit more complicated than the base characters, are really fun and interesting. Half the characters in the mod aren't even that much more complicated, like Slime Boss, Gunslinger, Guardian, or Champ.

great video mr.Rarran any plans on doing monster train ?

I love this game, the problem is that i have never been able to finish. Maybe i'm just dumb (possible) or bad at the game (very possible) but i have never gotten past the second "chapter" boss. But it's such a fun game either way.

I wish we had the other tuns as well. I wanted to see how you did overall. But good video!

How do I watch the full stream? Went to twitch and didn’t see it there.

Damn, Raran is such a relatable streamer, he also suffers from the 'I dont use potions or items because maybe the final boss has a 2nd phase and a phase after that phase and a phase after that phase etc' syndrome!

You don't actually have to beat the game to unlock the next class each by the way. You just have to finish a run, win or lose, with the three first characters. You do unlock something, however, if you beat it with all three of those.

you're actually cracked at this game. what an incredible run.

Just started playing it a couple days ago. It is amazing!! 10 hours doesn't do it justice. Play it for a week.

It is so interesting seeing someone come into StS after it has been out for so many years, to the point where more games than I can possibly count have since come out based almost entirely on the StS formula. The only game that uses StS as inspiration that I have found can stand on its own separate from StS is Monster Train. If you enjoyed StS, I think you may enjoy Monster Train. Unlike other games that have gone a similar route to StS, even with differences (e.g., Roguebook), Monster Train is absolutely able to stand alone as its own game in terms of quality, fun, and nuance.

is there somewhere i could watch the full stream VOD?

I need some Frost Prime and Rarran content. The content would be AMAZING!!

Sts is one of my favorite games ever. The depth of the card strategy is staggering.

This game is amazing, but dang it it's so hard to beat the true final boss!

100 hours in this game. would be way more if a20 wasnt too easy as i got used to the game. what a game

This is my favorite game of all time, period. I've been playing it for the past three years on multiple platforms (pc, ps5, android, switch). Never did the math to know how much time I spent across all platforms, but I'm probably beyond 1000 hours (almost 600 on steam alone). I even bought a physical copy on switch recently that I'll maintain sealed, my single physical game collection that is actually complete 😊 This is basically infinite fun.

Love how the smithing sounds sinks up with the music at 23:00

The fun part of the game is actually trying to get the perfect craziest deck combo. Infinite one turn kill, corruption random OP deck, tingsha non stop cycle deck, at one point we would go every elite and risk the run for that epic relics collection. It is one of the craziest rouge dungeon game that can be play over 100hours. This game should be a place holder similar to stacklands for new type of games. Using these mechanics to create an rpg open world type of card game.

I love watching people’s first runs and in my mind be like “foolish mistake” even tho I know I suck too edit: did he seriously beat it in the FIRST try??? how the fuck

3:25 ah yes, “too good to use syndrome” As someone who primarily plays roguelites, I suffer from this real bad

That's a named trope, *Too Awesome To Use*

That watcher deck is pretty much what I used to get a20

That spire was indeed slayed

sooo glad you checked it out and came to like it, but now the ultimate challenge begins: try not to compare literally every card game in existence with Slay the Spire. Difficulty: impossible

I have never had fears of using potions. I'll use all three of my potions on one combat because I could not care less of I might need them later

Around 1000 hours in and still playing it almost daily.

Dude has more wins in 4 hours than me in 60 that's insane

There's no way. How the hell you do all that first try

man in wouldve loved seeing each run as its own individual video instead of one edited video just showing the end fight.

This vid made me smiled so much. Haven’t played StS recently but I did a lot in the past. This was like seeing my little brother pick up and fall in love with an old favorite game 🥲

Would love to see more :D

Just started playing too, beat it on three out of four characters so far. I firmly enjoy Defect, but a combo of RNG and horrible choices has caused me to loose a lot. Someday I’ll finish it……

It seems Rarran didn't discovered the power of upgraded cards, although he didn't finish all runs...

didnt watch the video but i already know rarran had a skill issue seeing by the title jokes aside loving the content as always!

STS Is my favorite game of all time easily. So much time i can put into a game and still have stupid things happen in a run

You are so good at slay the spire omg