

Gold will let you buy items in shops, health potions will heal you up, events will give you a choice to make to hopefully gain a powerful item from and then there are fights.įights come in normal and elite forms. There are some revealed tiles to aim for but in general you’ll be revealing tiles not knowing what is on them so you may get lucky or you may not. You can use these to reveal other areas in the procedurally generated stages and find special tiles to hopefully make you stronger and prepare you for the boss and the following stage.īrushes reveal a large area around you whilst inks come in various forms, letting you reveal a line of tiles or individuals. Here is where inks and brushes come into play.

Not completely, you’ll have a basic path to the boss with certain interactive elements on the way but most of the screen will be empty. I say complete a run as, players of similar titles will know, beating a run is not the same as beating the game but I’ll get to that later.Įach stage is made up of hexagonal tiles for you to explore, but the book is primarily blank. Being a deck building Rogue-lite the story isn’t important in the slightest, but you must travel through three stages, defeating the boss of each in order to complete a run. You initially control Sharra and Sorocco, as they wake up within the titular Roguebook. Roguebook is in a similar vein but has enough twists to make it stand out. Slay the Spire is probably the best on PlayStation but there are other examples on other platforms and even something like Neoverse is a good time. The deck building Rogue-lite has some strong representatives. Main PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / cards / deck builder / Ink / neoverse / rogue-lite / roguebook / slay the spire / turn-based by Gareth
