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Slay the Spire
Balor Games · 28,897 ratings · ★ 4.3
4.3
★★★★★
28,897 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 27 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
17 negative reviews mention this · 63% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fix your UI! No reason I have to click a card multiple times just for it to (maybe) work. Game design has worst RGN than Cloverpit." - Judas Pan
2
"play"
9 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "game reverted my save data - is was near 100% completion, and now im down to 74%. really frustrating. otherwise, I very much enjoy this game. however, the data loss has kinda killed any interest i have in playing anymore, as I have to re-co…" - Drew Kennedy
3
"card"
8 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fix your UI! No reason I have to click a card multiple times just for it to (maybe) work. Game design has worst RGN than Cloverpit." - Judas Pan
4
"cards"
8 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible UI experience. Most interactions require a tap on the item, then another separate tap to confirm the choice. HOWEVER, when in the mystery nodes making extremely important decisions. the first tap is instantly confirmed. I was faced…" - Jeremy Foss
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"save"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "game reverted my save data - is was near 100% completion, and now im down to 74%. really frustrating. otherwise, I very much enjoy this game. however, the data loss has kinda killed any interest i have in playing anymore, as I have to re-co…" - Drew Kennedy
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"read"
5 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible UI experience. Most interactions require a tap on the item, then another separate tap to confirm the choice. HOWEVER, when in the mystery nodes making extremely important decisions. the first tap is instantly confirmed. I was faced…" - Jeremy Foss
7
"times"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fix your UI! No reason I have to click a card multiple times just for it to (maybe) work. Game design has worst RGN than Cloverpit." - Judas Pan
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"data"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "game reverted my save data - is was near 100% completion, and now im down to 74%. really frustrating. otherwise, I very much enjoy this game. however, the data loss has kinda killed any interest i have in playing anymore, as I have to re-co…" - Drew Kennedy
9
"frustrating"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "game reverted my save data - is was near 100% completion, and now im down to 74%. really frustrating. otherwise, I very much enjoy this game. however, the data loss has kinda killed any interest i have in playing anymore, as I have to re-co…" - Drew Kennedy
10
"android"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I'm on android update ONE UI 8.5. The game closes the moment I open it. This is happening with majority of the games I download." - Maleet
11
"does"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DOES NOT WORK ON CHROMEBOOK (LENOVO SLIM 3)" - Adnan
12
"every"
4 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "stuck on "sync data" on the startup screen. worked for about 3 hours. when it worked, it was sinking almost after every card play." - Anjan Gewali
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Fix your UI! No reason I have to click a card multiple times just for it to (maybe) work. Game design has worst RGN than Cloverpit.
game reverted my save data - is was near 100% completion, and now im down to 74%. really frustrating. otherwise, I very much enjoy this game. however, the data loss has kinda killed any interest i have in playing anymore, as I have to re-complete a bunch of difficult challenges which I've struggled to complete. I feel like this is a Google rather than a StS issue. I would buy this game on any platform, but not the play store.
boring
You are up to the whims of RNG to determine if you can win or not. Awful game.
DOES NOT WORK ON CHROMEBOOK (LENOVO SLIM 3)
Should be called 'Slay the Spider'
stuck on "sync data" on the startup screen. worked for about 3 hours. when it worked, it was sinking almost after every card play.
Suddenly restarts and asks which older save I want to use (Local or cloud)?
Has the most BS bosses of all time. Every single time you make it to the third boss its tailor made to counter your deck specifically and there is nothing you can do about it. This is the only game I know that punishes you for making a build and utterly destroys you if you don't. How are you ever supposed to get to the heart and "beat" a run!?!
base deck of every character contains to many cards to have fun. decrease it to 6 instead of 12. in late game you're plagued by the same cards you start with because there is so many. Pandoras box should be a starting relic. Also there should be a "confirm" button when selecting cards for events. I'm tapping a card to read what it does, i don't mean to select it.
Unexpectedly lost all progress. Is supposed to have cloud save app does not sign in the play and sync upon opening game does nothing. Does this game even have cloud save or is all data saved locally?
Fun game, terrible app. The cards are tiny and can't be enlarged to read them. When you try to read the tiny cards, sometimes you accidentally play them, which also happens when trying to select a different card.
how is the ui so garbage? hard to select another card than the default selected so i keep misplaying cards, upgrading wrong things
Fun game but incredibly bad setup. To read the cards you have to touch them, but then touch them near the top, and they are already in the use area. The number of times I've closed and reopened the game because of these poorly regioned touch controls is already around 7 today. Sometimes more than 3 for a single fight. The larger hand you have the more difficult it is. Sometimes i resort to just going to the wiki and searching each card name so i dont have to try holding and reading it. plz fix
Jeu affreusement surcoté. Design au fraise, mou et sans âme. Contrairement au mythe, ce n'est pas le pionnier du genre (cf. Night of the Full Moon). L’ergonomie est archaïque (PC et Android). Runs interminables et punitives sans aucune chance de repêche. Un titre encensé par des néophytes, mais frustrant pour les vrais joueurs de cartes (je joue depuis tout petit à tous les jeux de cartes). Préférez Indies' Lies, bien plus nerveux et beau. 30h de perdues.
I don't get why people enjoy this game honestly.
This game is absolute trash. If you want the full experience, just sit around and roll a d100 until you get 100 and then pat yourself on the back for beat the supposed best roguelike to every be made.
I'm on android update ONE UI 8.5. The game closes the moment I open it. This is happening with majority of the games I download.
At random it reset the file to about 2 months back wiping about 70% of unlocks. I can't report many other issues besides the sync problem, but being at risk of losing weeks to months of progress from a random sync issue makes it hard to want to continue to play.
Terrible UI experience. Most interactions require a tap on the item, then another separate tap to confirm the choice. HOWEVER, when in the mystery nodes making extremely important decisions. the first tap is instantly confirmed. I was faced with a decision to remove a card from my deck, and since I'm playing a new character and don't know the cards by name I have to touch the options to get a pop-up of the card to read it's effects. When I let go, the best card in my deck evaporated.
Constantly lose my save file. Unplayable as a mobile game that you need to dip in and out off. Have to set aside 2 hours to do a full run or you lose your save. Frustrating! Also, text is way too small. Shame as it is a great game. Can't recommend at the moment
the game to keep crashing on its own no. matter what devise it is🪸, initially it wasn't that bad but at times it can keep saying app error as the gameplay would stop randomly along with it not being able to continue the game smoothly until you excited and restrted the app, I have seen this happens to both of my devices to confirm my suspiciouns regarding the app itself and sometimes the game would crash randomly for some reason please get it fixed
I want to love the game, but the interface truly sucks on mobile. Selecting / de-selecting cards is frustratingly inconsistent. Went on reddit to see if others experiencing the same problems, and yes they are. Tried to follow their advice of de-selecting, but couldn't find anything consistent that works for me. Going to see if I can use a controller like on console, but for a quick pickup and drop game on android, I am not a fan of needing a controller to play.
Phenomenal game, but will randomly delete your save data. Expect to lose hundreds of hours of progress.
It's a fun game obviously. It's popular for a reason. But the interface on Android is not good. The number of times I've been scrolling trying to look at cards and it selects one that I didn't want because it doesn't have any kind of confirmation page is so frustrating. Similar types of input flaws where you want to do one thing but it does another makes the game hard to play for very long without getting frustrated. just not a great user interface for a phone game.
it's a really fun game, but the controls are ported incredibly poorly, making it extremely difficult and frustrating to read things without selecting them or to deselect things once they are selected. If you can play this game on any other platform you probably should
Unplayable for me. The text on cards is tiny even though there is plenty of screen space. Selecting cards also has some porting issues, where selecting a different card can sometimes play the previously selected card etc. Very disappointed
Sentiment summary
81%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)