Slay the Spire 2 is being review bombed again, leading to the game’s Steam score rating dropping all the way down to “Mixed.” Slay the Spire 2 is the long-awaited sequel to one of the most beloved and popular deck building roguelites of all time, and it enjoyed an “Overwhelmingly Positive” review rating on Steam early on. Most new updates have brought with them a negative sentiment from the players, however.
Slay the Spire 2 blew up basically immediately upon release, with early adopters praising the amount of available content, game balancing, new characters, and all-new features like the four-player co-op multiplayer mode. Slay the Spire 2‘s art style is a huge upgrade on the original, too, which is bound to have drawn many players in. As a result, the game set a new concurrent player record for roguelites on Steam with 57,025 players, beating out even Edmund McMillen’s Mewgenics and the ever-popular Hades 2.
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Slay the Spire 2 is Getting Review-Bombed by Players Unhappy About Balancing Changes, Again
After Slay the Spire 2‘s March 2026 beta update reverted many of the previously unpopular balancing changes, things were looking up for the developer Mega Crit. That trend is not set to continue, though, as update 0.103.2 is once again the target of review bombing. “The recent patch [Insert Fictional Patch Name, e.g., The Harbinger Update] constitutes commercial fraud,” says one of the recent reviews. “The developers are not “iterating”; they are arrogantly eviscerating the game. With a disgusting, condescending attitude of “teaching the player how to have fun,” they have completely gutted the core archetypes I spent hundreds of hours mastering.” This is the reviewer’s self-translated piece of text, it’s worth noting, with the original having been posted in Simplified Chinese. “This is a hostile, gutted shell of what was promised. I am genuinely nauseated by every minute I have spent with this build of the game,” the reviewer concludes.
The specific update that caused such a massively negative community sentiment consists of the sum total of a number of beta branch builds from Slay the Spire 2‘s March and April updates. “Trust the process,” Mega Crit requested as part of the update overview blog post on Steam. In the blog, the developer specifically pointed out that “just because something made it from beta to main [branch] does not mean it’s set in stone,” asking for patience from the players as the game’s early access stint continues. This patience has already run out, however, as the game got over 8,000 negative reviews in Simplified Chinese on April 17 and 18.
It’s curious to see just how much ire Slay the Spire 2 has drawn following its wildly successful launch. While it’s obviously an unfinished product, it’s also absolutely loaded with content and remarkably true to the original game’s spirit and balance. The new Slay the Spire 2 characters only add more replay value to the experience, even this early in its production, and it should’ve been a given that Mega Crit would continue to iterate on the balancing as time went on.
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Easy (7.5s)Medium (5.0s)Hard (2.5s)Permadeath (2.5s)
Slay the Spire games are also very true to the original roguelike and roguelite format wherein some runs are simply unwinnable. The best rogue-style games emphasize RNG a fair bit, which means rolling the dice poorly could very well lead to loss even when the player did everything right. This is absolutely present in Slay the Spire 2, and when Mega Crit nerfs certain cards and strategies, a subset of the player base may take that as an unacceptable loss of gameplay options instead of it being a celebration of the genre’s biggest strengths.
- Released
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March 5, 2026
- Developer(s)
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Mega Crit
- Publisher(s)
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Mega Crit
- Multiplayer
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Online Co-Op
