Slay the Spire 2‘s first week is within the books, and it’s been a wild one. The deckbuilding roguelike blew the primary recreation’s launch out of the water, and it’s barely even gotten began but. Developer Mega Crit Video games flagged some fast fixes and gross sales milestones in its first debrief with the sequel’s rising group on Steam.
The $25 recreation has already bought 3 million copies (roughly $75 million earlier than Steam takes its minimize), and gamers have already gone on over 250,000,000 runs. That’s over 80 runs per individual, on common, for these counting at residence. “Our crew has been extraordinarily excited to see so many individuals’s enthusiasm for what we’ve been engaged on for the previous 5 years–however our journey is simply starting,” group supervisor Demi wrote within the studio’s latest blog post.
The sport is just in Early Entry, so everybody’s questioning what new content material and modifications are coming down the highway. Mega Crit confirmed it’s not able to share a roadmap or timeline but, nevertheless it has teased the areas it’ll be specializing in within the weeks forward:
– A revamp of the badge/scoring system and a friends-only leaderboard filter
– Phobia accessibility mode
– Extra artwork and VFX
– Ongoing stability patches
– Steam Workshop help
– Multiplayer QOL options
– Official Twitch plugin integration
There’s a brand new public beta testing department for the sport on Steam that gamers can decide into in the event that they need to check out upcoming modifications earlier than they go dwell within the full launch. That features a balance patch that tweaks a current exploit that made it doable for gamers to turn into godlike. “Gamers, enemies, and pets can now not have their HP elevated above 999,999,999,” the event crew introduced within the recreation’s newest patch notes.
The remainder of the modifications are largely bug fixes, together with within the recreation’s enjoyable however often chaotic multiplayer mode (you battle with pals and queue card instructions concurrently). The crew can be addressing varied softlock states and slowly including card artwork for people who had been lacking it at launch. As a result of, consider it or not, Slay the Spire 2 remains to be removed from completed. It’s already fairly rattling good, although.
