9 Best Hidden Gem Video Games Of 2019

9. Slay The Spire

What happens when you take two established genres with as much in common as chalk and cheese and smash them together?

An unappetising mess should be the correct answer but not so, for MegaCrit's first foray into digital entertainment. Blending the one-more-go gameplay loop of roguelikes with strategy-based deck building, Slay the Spire taps into the same 'create your own adventure' shtick that's kept pen and paper Dungeons & Dragons in business for a lifetime, only here, you don't need an imagination.

As you progress up the titular Spire one clutched victory at a time, your hand of powerful abilities and relics grows in tandem. MegaCrit leaves the choice of what cards to take and leave behind entirely up to player agency, making building that game-winning hand all the more euphoric, should one ever manage to triumph.

Fail you will; succeed you might.