Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to the roguelike deck-building game that spawned a genre, has been delayed. Developer Mega Crit had been aiming for an autumn 2025 release, it said, but has now realigned for March 2026.
We don’t know the date but we do, bizarrely, know the day. Mega Crit has already, quirkily, announced that Slay the Spire 2 will be released on a Thursday. According to my calendar, which I presume is the same as yours, it means Slay the Spire 2 will be released on either the 5th, 12th, 19th or 26th March 2026. Maybe provisionally book-off all these days from work?
“We know this isn’t the news anyone wanted to hear,” Mega Crit wrote in a Steam update. “There’s no single dramatic reason [for the delay]. Some personal life stuff hit the team (everyone’s okay!), we kept saying ‘wouldn’t it be cool if…’ one too many times, and honestly, the game just needs more polish to meet our standards.”
Mega Crit added, in a lighthearted delay FAQ accompanying the news, that the delay wasn’t Silksong’s fault, despite appearances. “We got together as a team to determine our new release window before Silksong’s date was announced,” the studio said. “The timing just worked out like that, but on the bright side, everyone can keep busy playing Silksong during the wait!”
Slay the Spire 2 looks a lot like Slay the Spire 1, but upon closer inspection has some notable differences – evolutions, it’s probably fairer to say. A lot of effort has gone into improving the visual presentation of the game – with what appear to be 3D models in 2D environments now – and there’s also apparently a great deal more content stuffed in.
One major change outlined in the post is alternate acts. These allow you to choose different “a” and “b” variations of acts when you replay the game to help ease rerun repetition. Each alteration is said to have “radically” different environments, enemies, events and bosses. The two examples shared in the update were Act 1a variation Overgrowth, a lush jungle-themed alteration; and Act 1b, the Underdocks, a miry waterway.
The Act 1a variation Overgrowth.
The Act 1b variation Underdocks.