LogFAQs > #968684989

When you said there was a game you had over 1000 hours in, for some reason it didn't occur to me it might be Monster Train.

Monster Train >>> Slay the Spire for me. I appreciate what Spire is doing, and it obviously came first and defined the genre, but MT is just far more interesting to me, and I think a big part of that is that Spire feels far less out of my own control. I don't generally play true roguelikes because I don't enjoy games where I'm at the whims of RNG and you gain nothing when that happens. You do technically unlock stuff in Spire, I guess, but if I ever ended up in a bad situation with MT, I was able to say "I probably could have done something about this." I also simply felt like the gameplay loop was more engaging, even when I'm doing something silly like spamming heal spells onto a single creature because that buffs it to ridiculous levels. I was surprised to find Steam only has me recorded at about 12 hours on Monster Train, because I could swear I've played more than that. (I make no bones about being one of the completionist players with hundreds of hours, but that feels really limited.)

And have you really written 70k words? Your Monster Train write-up was long, but I guess I didn't realize what wordcount totals run like on forum posts. Your first two actual write-ups were 500 and 700 words, so if that's the average, I guess this makes sense. Thank you for not just writing a single sentence about each of these games and calling it a day.