Slay the Spire 2 and Esoteric Ebb ate my weekend on a ROG Ally

I blinked, and it was Monday. I made a mistake most grievous on Friday by installing both the card-slinging roguelike Slay the Spire 2 and the new Disco Elysium-like RPG Esoteric Ebb on my ROG Ally. I thought I would sample a little of this, a little of that, and go on about my weekend business after a few hours with both.

I was wrong; those two absolutely gobbled up my free time. Slay the Spire 2 feels built for tiny screens and portable ease. The deckbuilder strikes a near-perfect balance between the joys of incremental progress through constant failure and the occasional RNG knife twist or blessing.

It’s easy to learn and easy to pick up and put down, which helped me actually make progress even when I was catastrophically bad. Esoteric Ebb is another story, better saved for when you can swaddle yourself in a heap of blankets and set aside some reading time.

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