Also available in: 한국어
This mod adds a character named The Poker Player to Slay the Spire. This character defies traditional style of combat, and fights with poker rules. This mod plays similarly to a game called 'Trump Battle', created by HSymbol in a small game jam, adapted to slay the spire mechanics.
Crappy showcase video of The Poker Player
In addition to traditional Attack, Skill, Powers etc in the base StS game, The Poker Player uses another card type: Poker.
There are 40 cards, four suits each with ranks ranging from 1 to 10. They cost 1 and when you play one, it only cycles itself without doing anything.
If you keep at least one of them until the end of your turn, you enter Showdown. During Showdown, each Poker Card in your hand activates its ability based on its suit.
- Spade X: Gain X Block.
- Diamond X: Deal X damage to lowest health enemy.
- Heart X: Heal X HP. Exhausts after activated.
- Clover X: Deal X damage to all enemies.
In addition, if you score a Poker Hand, effects of them are boosted.
- 1 Pair: +25%
- 2 Pairs: +50%
- Three of a kind: +100%
- Straight: +200%
- Full House: +150%
- Four of a kind: +200%
- Five of a kind: +250%
- Flush can be added to any of the above hand (including No pairs), which adds an additional +150% to the modifier. For example,
- (No pairs) Flush: +150%
- 1 Pair Flush: +175%
- Straight Flush: +350%
If you upgrade a Poker Card, its rank will go up by 1. Rank 10 cards cannot be upgraded since they have the highest rank.
Unlike most Slay the Spire mods, The Poker Player is not intended to be used with any other mods. Sine the majority of cards are not played in a traditional way, many relics/cards/etc added by mods will be played much differently with this character. Similarly, playing with Custom Mods are not intended.
To play with this mod only, only check BaseMod, StSLib and The Poker Player and run in the Mod The Spire menu.
However, nothing stops you from trying this mod with others. Just keep in mind that I'm not going to change any cross-mod interactions other than crash or softlock issues.
The Poker Player is not a traditional mod. If you want to play as a character that feels normal, see Gatherer.
- HSymbol for the original game.
- Rita-Bernstein for ZHS translation.
- All code is in MIT license.
- Celicath@gmail.com
- celicath#3192 at Discord