Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend

as a disclaimer: i've never played slay the spire or any other card battler aside from morimens & card-en-ciel (and a bit of chrono ark, which i refunded to buy this game, lol) LBoL is a great way to pass time & an incredibly flexible strategy game. I bought LBoL a few months ago, but installed it on my laptop after not touching the game for a while on my handheld. Switching to laptop really changed my opinion on the game, unsurprisingly. LBoL has a ton of flexibility with its difficulty, as I mentioned earlier. I like to play short runs to pass the time during lectures, and often only focus half my attention on the game, and it's still enjoyable; there's enough strategy & thinking involved that I remain interested without getting exhausted. When I'm not doing other things, I really focus on strategizing, picking the perfect cards, optimizing my damage-defense each turn, and LBoL becomes seriously complex and difficult. Put simply, it's a game that can be played casually or seriously, and is enjoyable both ways. You can also retry battles infinitely, making the game much more forgiving. The story is pretty typical Touhou stuff, not that deep and not that interesting, to be honest.…

Better than Slay the Spire, more depth in gameplay, anime girls from Touhou series, more characters, cards, enemy types. I think Slay the Spire 2 is slightly better but overall roughly equal in value. I just like this better cause of Touhou.

So much fun!

Nice StS-type game. When you pick a boss relic and gain a colored mana, that has a significant impact on the card loot pool for the rest of your run.

I give this the highest praise in the StS genre of games. Peak all around

Slay the spire but Magic. The game is beautiful visually and musically, the only issue I'd have is that the runs are really long, otherwise really great game