Spire

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.

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Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to one of the defining PC games of the last decade, is going to be late—and the developers swear it’s not because of Hollow Knight: Silksong.

“We got together as a team to determine our new release window before Silksong’s date was announced,” Mega Crit’s community manager 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 way to frame the delay, since Slay the Spire 2 didn’t yet have a set release date—it was previously announced to be coming sometime before the end of 2025. That’s now moved to an as-yet-unspecified Thursday in March 2026, a target Mega Crit says it’s “confident [it] can hit.” The only real reason for the delay? They keep making more game.

“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 update adds. “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 offered up a juicy example of the broader scope it’s aiming for in Slay the Spire 2: every time you reach a new act during a run, you’ll be presented 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 1’s “B route,” the Underdocks (Image credit: Mega Crit Games)

Act one begins with two possible paths through 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 own alternate paths added during early access.

Sounds like we have some increasingly complicated buildcrafting and route-planning in our futures. But if you too were planning to use Slay the Spire 2 as the primary means by which to ignore friends and family over the holiday break in an all-encompassing deckbuilding fugue: I hope this news doesn’t hit you too hard. At least Monster Train 2 is real good.

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