Slay The Spire Breaking Down Game Design EP 3

Game Goal: Slay the spire.

Core Game Experience: Build a custom deck with your character to ascend a mysterious tower filled with loot and enemies.

Game Loop:

Slay enemies
Get possible gold, relics, and potions and always choose or refrain from adding a new card to your deck
Choose next room to explore with shops, campfires, question marks, chests, and more

Turn based you going first then the enemy
Hero Squad: Choose from one of four characters all with completely unique cards and playstyles (CD3)
Every round draw seven cards (CD7, CD3)
Every card costs energy
Cards can be attacks, defenses, powers, or something else
Used cards are put in the discard pile to be reshuffled into your deck once you have used everything
Grey cards can be accrued in any run by any character
Characters and enemies have limited health which if it reaches zero kills them
Shield can block attacks
Beating enemies gives a new card to choose from, gold, and a possible relic or potions (CD4)
Enemies announce their next move above their head which can be attack, defense, buffs, debuffs to you, spawning more enemies, hidden, or something else
Cards are drawn randomly from your active pile (CD7)
Potions can be used for special effects anytime in battle (CD3)
Items give permanent effects that stick to your character (CD4)
Question marks on the map give choices which can be both good or bad (CD7)
Legacy Upgrade: Campfires allow you to heal or upgrade a card (CD2)
Elite enemies drop great relics (CD4)
Shops allow you to spend gold for cards, potions, relics, and to get rid of cards from your deck (CD3)
Every floor has a end boss which if killed heals you a ton of health on the next floor
If you die you have to restart (CD8)
Leaderboard showcasing you compared to other players (CD5)