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Five of the Best: Towers

The non-faulty kind.

Key artwork for Slay the Spire, showing two of the characters in the games facing the infamous spire itself, which pierces the clouds above it. There's an orange glow coming from the centre of the storm. Cards fly around in the rest of the image.
Image credit: Slay the Spire / MegaCrit
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Feature by Robert Purchese Associate Editor
Additional contributions by Christian Donlan, Marie Pritchard, and Tom Phillips
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Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also about having your say, so don't be shy, use the comments below and join in!

Oh and you can find our entire Five of the Best archive elsewhere on the site.

How better to represent progression in a game than have people climb to the top of a tower? It's a motif that's as old as time, if you ask me, and you probably shouldn't because then I'll say something like that. Games and towers, though, they go back. But the question is, which towers in games are the best? It's Wednesday, it's Five of the Best, let's get into it.

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