Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to one of many defining PC video games of the final decade, goes to be late—and the builders swear it isn’t due to Hollow Knight: Silksong.
“We got together as a team to determine our new release window before Silksong’s date was announced,” Mega Crit’s group supervisor wrote in an update on Steam today. “The timing just worked out like that, but on the bright side, everyone can keep busy playing Silksong during the wait!”
It’s a tongue-in-cheek technique to body the delay, since Slay the Spire 2 did not but have a set launch date—it was beforehand introduced to be coming someday earlier than the tip of 2025. That’s now moved to an as-yet-unspecified Thursday in March 2026, a goal Mega Crit says it is “confident [it] can hit.” The solely actual purpose for the delay? They preserve making extra recreation.
“Compared to Slay the Spire 1’s early access launch (and for that matter its final 2.0 form) this new sequel has a lot more content that we can’t wait to share with you,” the replace provides. “In addition, we want to make sure we’re upholding the quality bar that both we and the gaming community have come to expect for early access titles.”
Mega Crit supplied up a juicy instance of the broader scope it is aiming for in Slay the Spire 2: each time you attain a brand new act throughout a run, you will be offered with two branches which “differ radically in their environments, enemies, events, and bosses, all of which greatly increase the variety of gameplay between runs.”
Act one begins with two potential paths by Overgrowth (“a lush, tangled ruin with much of its fauna resembling mystical woodland creatures and sentient flora that might just eat you alive”) and Underdocks (“a miry waterway connected to the Spire’s sewer system, from which all manner of mutant sea creatures and vagrants might emerge”). Acts two and three will see their very own alternate paths added throughout early entry.
Sounds like we’ve got some more and more difficult buildcrafting and route-planning in our futures. But for those who too have been planning to make use of Slay the Spire 2 as the first means by which to disregard family and friends over the vacation break in an all-encompassing deckbuilding fugue: I hope this information does not hit you too laborious. At least Monster Train 2 is real good.