You play your best poker hand at the end of your turn, all at once, which is called the Showdown. Rather than trying to use your best cards in any given round as in vanilla Slay the Spire, you’re trying to save them up to create poker hands. The Poker Player adds 40 standard playing cards with suits (clubs, spades, hearts, and diamonds) and ranks (one to ten). This mod doesn’t just add a new hero, cards, and relics, but an entirely new ruleset governed by the immutable laws of poker. If you’re a fan of another type of card game, you’ll enjoy The Poker Player mod.
The Bug Knight has its own custom resources, called Soul and Void, and your knight might even change appearance if you build some specialised decks, which is just a brilliant touch as well. It adds the character from the outstanding metroidvania Hollow Knight as a playable class, and close to a hundred beautifully illustrated and well-designed cards. If you want a familiar face-or at least a familiar mask-in your next round, The Bug Knight mod should delight you. It’s a great mod and a good way to shake up your game. Playble Snecko also gives you a Snecko Soul relic that adds six unknown, transforming cards to your deck, meaning your hand will be full of surprises in every round of combat. Never knowing how much a card will cost adds a bit more RNG to the already heaping mounds of RNG in Slay the Spire, making it a fun and incredibly tricky way to play. When you play as the Snecko you begin with a relic which confers permanent confusion.
If you’ve faced one before, you know it uses Perplexing Gaze, which causes confusion-the effect that randomises the cost of cards in your deck. The Playable Snecko mod lets you crawl through the dungeons as, well, the Snecko, one of Slay the Spire’s act 2 monsters.
Slimes aren’t the only Slay the Spire monsters you can play as.