Slay the Spire 2 fan's card pitches are so good, devs might steal them: "What the heck" Mega Crit's community is doing the work for them GamesRadar · Aug 20
After dropping a nerf bomb, Slay the Spire 2 devs say updates are slowing down so they can focus on "bigger, more impactful content" like a new character Slay the Spire 2 patches will "be a bit further apart" GamesRadar · Aug 18
New Slay the Spire 2 patch adds keyboard-only mode, lots of balance changes, and one major buff: "Finally I won't be humiliated by Turn 1 Bowlbugs" Mega Crit's roguelike deckbuilder continues its early access run GamesRadar · Jul 31
Slay the Spire 2 lead says the garbage placeholder art is "important" and gen AI would ruin it: "People would judge the game as if it's a 1.0, fully developed video game" AI-generated art looks "very strange," says Casey Yano GamesRadar · Jul 14
Slay the Spire 2 update adds a crucial feature for every roguelike along with a randomizer button, modding improvements, and more Mega Crit pauses your run timers if you need to run to the toilet GamesRadar · Jul 3
Slay the Spire 2's lead birthed reviled boss Doormaker after "playing too much Deadlock," while Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke inspired another creature "The original was based on the Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke" GamesRadar · Jun 20
Slay the Spire 2 update fixes RNG after one player's "eight-hour descent into madness" proved "we did, in fact, have some unusual RNG problems" Slay the RNG GamesRadar · Jun 19
Slay the Spire 2 lies about its RNG, rabid fan declares in 6,600-word essay: "I think it would be pretty bad for the game" Randomness in Slay the Spire 2 may be a lot more predictable than we thought GamesRadar · Jun 18
"Entire nations will hate you": Steam expert warns devs to use good regional pricing and localization if they don't want Silksong-style review bombs Bad localization may see players "hate you in a language you don't understand," Tom Kaczmarczyk says GamesRadar · May 21
Slay the Spire 2 review bomb didn't actually affect sales that much, Steam expert says, even though "in any other case you would say this game is dead" Mega Crit has endured through the negativity GamesRadar · May 19
Slay the Spire 2 has almost 80,000 negative Steam reviews – nearly 14 times more than the first game received in 9 years This follows several big waves of negative reviews GamesRadar · May 12
Steam stats for Slay the Spire 2's engine Godot show "strong signs of exponential growth" Godot is on the rise GamesRadar · May 6
Slay the Spire 2 devs weren't going to make a sequel, but then the publisher handling the first game's ports shut down and things got 'very murky' "I guess we were a little naïve." PC Gamer · Apr 29
Slay the Spire 2 devs wanted to keep updating the original instead of making a sequel, but then their publisher shut down: "I guess we were a little naive" "I was like, 'We're not going to make a sequel! Why would we do that?'" GamesRadar · Apr 28
GamesRadar · Apr 24 Slay the Spire 2 devs say the Doormaker boss that sparked so many negative Steam reviews is actually "slightly weaker than the other Act 3 bosses" This is news to me
GamesRadar · Apr 24 New Slay the Spire 2 patch makes some terrible cards and relics actually good, Mega Crit agrees the game "is quite hard" and wants lower Ascensions to be "more accessible" Don't worry, the higher ones are still hard as nails
GamesRadar · Apr 22 Slay the Spire 2 plummets to 66% positive lifetime Steam reviews as players seethe after first major update: "Preventing players from deckbuilding in a deckbuilder" It happened again
GamesRadar · Apr 20 Slay the Spire 2 won't get an endless mode like Balatro because it limits "infinite strategies," but creator says "maybe a modder will think of a way to make it work" Mega Crit might look into it at some stage, though
PC Gamer · Apr 18 Slay the Spire 2 dev rejects the concept of deadlines: 'I don't want Sloppy Spire 2' There's a lot to come for the early access deckbuilder, but "exacting deadlines produce sloppy uninspired work," says Mega Crit.
GamesRadar · Apr 17 Congratulations, Slay the Spire 2 players: first "Major Update" lets you experience the pain and bliss Steam beta players have endured for weeks, and you're in for a treat But Mega Crit warns "just because something made it from beta to main does not mean it's set in stone"
GamesRadar · Apr 10 Slay the Spire 2 players surprised by patch that actually makes the game easier with big Ironclad buffs and nerfs to infuriating enemies: "F*** that guy" The Silent also had one of its most overpowered cards reworked
PC Gamer · Apr 3 Slay the Spire 2 adds end-of-run badges 'to let you know what was unique about each adventure' in latest beta patch The update, available in the public beta branch, makes numerous reworks, tweaks, and fixes, and so far hasn't sparked nearly the level of backlash the last one got.
GamesRadar · Apr 3 New Slay the Spire 2 patch gives players a pat on the back with Badges, "little reminders to let you know what was unique about each run" Mega Crit wants "to make runs feel distinct and improve scoring"
PC Gamer · Apr 2 Mega Crit co-founder says he wasn't bothered by the Steam backlash to Slay the Spire 2's beta balance patch: 'It's difficult for players to feel like they're heard' Casey Yano says that, ultimately, reviewers are just using the tools they're given.
PC Gamer · Apr 2 Slay the Spire 2's team is already cooking on 3 ideas for new game modes, each offering 'ways to interact with Slay the Spire that don't exist right now' Can you deduce precisely what Mega Crit is working on?