Slay the Spire

✨ New Features

• In terms of our progress on the list of promised features, we've now added the Bestiary to the Compendium on the beta branch! It currently acts as a full list of enemies in the game along with their move animations, though it will eventually include more detailed information about them as well.

⚖️ Balance Changes

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• i]Lovely early dev art courtesy of one of our programmers, Jose.[/i]
• For those still waiting for Steam Workshop support and Twitch integrations, rest assured that they are still coming in the near future--apologies that they've taken a bit longer to implement than we initially estimated! The multi-fronted mission to make StS2 as good as it can be continues.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Slay the Spire 2 has been out for about a month and the majority of our work has been fixing up major issues, improving our feedback systems, polishing up visuals, and reworking/balancing content so that all of the cards and items feel interesting and viable!

⚖️ Balance Changes

• Quality of life features
• Audio polish (more silly voices)
• Visual polish (less silly placeholder art)

✨ New Features

• Don't have your own copy of the base board game yet? You can add it to your pledge (or grab it on its own) during this campaign, too! You can even get a carrying case (aka the Bag of Preparation) that fits both the original game and the expansion inside it!!

🔧 Bug Fixes

• While we know people are curious about what major content updates are coming down the pike, right now we won’t be giving a specific timeline or roadmap for high-level content aside from what we’ve already confirmed (alternate acts for acts 2 & 3, more cards, events, and other content, etc). All of y

✨ New Features

• h3]Launch and Beyond[/h3]
• Ok, it’s Demi time again. [i]Slay the Spire 2[/i] has been out for merely a week and we have already hit [b]3,000,000 units[/b] sold with [b]more than 25,000,000 runs[/b] attempted!! (At least a few million are missing from that last datapoint as we started collecting these metrics a bit after launc
• b]Here’s what we currently plan on adding next:[/b]

⚖️ Balance Changes

• Steam Workshop support
• Multiplayer QOL features
• Official Twitch plugin integration

✨ New Features

• For those who have never ventured into the Spire before, you don't need any prior experience with [i]Slay the Spire 1[/i] to enjoy what [i]Slay the Spire 2[/i] has to offer. Now is a great time to dive right in and ascend the Spire, either on your own or—this time around—with your friends!
• h3]About Slay the Spire 2[/h3]
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• For 1,000 years, the Spire lay dormant, its secrets buried and its horrors forgotten. Now, it has reopened, hungrier and more dangerous than ever, devouring all who dare to ascend.
• New perils demand sharper strategies, relentless cunning, and unwavering resolve. Outwit the Spire’s brutal trials and uncover the truths hidden at its peak.

⚖️ Balance Changes

• We don't have a specific timeline to share with you all, but we'll be sure to keep you regularly updated and give you peeks behind the development curtain. Your feedback (as well as your fanart and memes) will be invaluable throughout this process, just as it was with the first game. This time, you'

🔧 Bug Fixes

• New perils demand sharper strategies, relentless cunning, and unwavering resolve. Outwit the Spire’s brutal trials and uncover the truths hidden at its peak.

✨ New Features

• Climb the Spire with a [b]new and returning cast of characters[/b], each with their own cards, motives, and secrets. Make allies of the most ancient of the Spire’s residents, encounter all-new environments, defeat formidable foes, and uncover fragments of the Spire’s past as you ascend it again and
• Also, while you can always choose to brave the ascent on your own, up to 4 players can now team up to face the Spire’s challenges together in an all-new [b]co-op mode[/b]. Discover multiplayer-specific cards, powerful team synergies, and carry your friends (or get carried) to victory!

✨ New Features

• b]A few different people have asked:[/b] Will StS2 be available on MacOS on launch?
• The award for most accurate guess goes to [b]snumodder[/b]! Many came close, but you were the first to point out that this creature was already teased in the Ironclad's new Anger card art!
• Our Valentine's present to you: a new [url=https://custom-connections-game.vercel.app/Yfq33LGn7KS0ipat5vDx]Slay the Spire Connections[/url]!

⚖️ Balance Changes

• In the meantime, let's take a look at...
• h3]The Evolution of Slay the Spire 2's Content[/h3]
• Since it's been over a year since we started teasing StS2 content, we figured now is a good time to check back in on what some of it looks like now. We did warn you it was all subject to change! Things will evolve even further with all of your feedback throughout early access, of course, but we figu

✨ New Features

• For those who didn't hear, [i]Slay the Spire 2[/i] was recently ranked the [b]number one[/b] game on the PC Gaming Show's Most Wanted list! We want to thank the voting council as well as all of you steadfast Slayers out there! As a treat, you can find quite a few tidbits of new StS2 info in the inte
• Something else that is unique to this character is his synergy with colorless cards, which he can both create and interact with in interesting ways. You may have noticed that Sovereign Blade is a colorless card, so this opens up a whole new avenue of Forge-based builds to explore, as well.
• b]Casey:[/b] There was a brief exploration of 3D but it was scrapped because the value add wasn't high and Anthony and I are more into games with a lot of content rather than flashy stuff. Sorry flashy lovers, it's just a lot easier to create and iterate content if they're 2D assets.
• b]BaySharp asks:[/b] Since STS2 got delayed for a fair amount of time, will we get any new gameplay trailer to compensate for it? Or perhaps, new gameplay footage? Or a demo even? Or just pretty much anything that will bring more hype to the game before the release?
• b]Casey:[/b] Yes, we publish a monthly newsletter (The Neowsletter) with sneak peeks and stuff. We even answer questions on there! Also, you may want to keep a particularly close eye out for something happening in February, closer to the launch...

⚖️ Balance Changes

• As the heir to his family’s empire, The Regent has the ability to [b]Forge[/b] his own signature weapon, the [b]Sovereign Blade[/b], a large, gleaming sword that orbits around him. The first time you play a card with the "Forge" keyword each combat, the Sovereign Blade's corresponding card will be c

✨ New Features

• Last month, we properly introduced you to one of [i]Slay the Spire 2[/i]'s new playable characters, The Necrobinder. This month, we're introducing you to some new non-playable characters...
• These oldest of the Spire's beings all have their own specialties, therefore their offerings will differ greatly from one another. As Neow's special power is that of resurrection, she will be there to greet you at the beginning of a run like always. However, Acts 2 and 3 will have their own separate
• As we continue our investigations into the Spire's many new species, it's time to first take a look at last month's mystery silhouette:

✨ New Features

• At long last, the time has come to dive deeper into the first new character we announced for [i]Slay the Spire 2[/i]: [b]The Necrobinder[/b], a sassy lich who relies upon a giant, reanimated hand called [b]Osty[/b] in battle. (It's a funny name but not technically a pun, so should be safe.)
• b]Casey:[/b] If people like the game we'll add more stuff. I don't know about collabs, I feel like it dilutes the identity of games? Then again, it depends on the genre.
• b]Matt asks:[/b] Is Poison back for The Silent in STS2, or does she now have to rely on a new kit to make her way through The Spire?
• b]Casey:[/b] we like poison
• b]The Singaporean Smoke Machine asks:[/b] Will there be a feature for shiv cards where there will be a "throwing" card animation? Like when you play a shiv, the card itself flies striaght into an enemy before spinning and falling off-screen? I think it would be really cool!

⚖️ Balance Changes

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• Another key component of the Necrobinder's kit is [b]Doom[/b], which we have teased in previous Neowsletters. When a creature's Doom meets or exceeds its current HP, it will die. It's a debuff that's applied similarly to Poison, but it does not deal damage over time or tick down, and it only affects
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✨ New Features

• After a lot of internal discussion, we've made the call to move Slay the Spire 2's Early Access launch to a secret Thursday in [b]March 2026[/b].
• We got together as a team to determine our new release window before Silksong’s date was announced. The timing just worked out like that, but on the bright side, everyone can keep busy playing Silksong during the wait!
• b]So what’s so different from StS1?[/b]
• In case you haven’t been keeping up with our trailers and Neowsletters–quite a lot. There are new characters, more cards/potions/relics/events/etc, more visual polish, more animation and VFX, quality of life changes, entirely new mechanics, and still a whole lot more we can’t tell you about just yet
• b]When was the game originally planned to launch?[/b]