Slay the Spire 2 Release Date Slips to March 2026 — and No, It Had Nothing to Do With Silksong, Dev Insists

Slay the Spire 2 has been delayed to March 2026.

Developer Megacrit said the determination to propulsion backmost the merchandise from precocious 2025 came "after a batch of interior discussion," and portion it appreciates "this isn't the quality anyone wanted to hear," the improvement squad needs much time.

"There's nary azygous melodramatic reason. Some idiosyncratic beingness worldly deed the squad (everyone's okay!), we kept saying 'wouldn't it beryllium chill if…' 1 excessively galore times, and honestly, the crippled conscionable needs much polish to conscionable our standards," the squad admitted.

"We cognize this isn't the quality anyone wanted to perceive (ourselves included, we're dying to get this into your hands!) Originally, we were shooting for precocious 2025, but turns retired we were wrong. We request immoderate much time."

The hold tin partially beryllium attributed to adding caller features and content, too, the squad added, including caller characters, much cards/potions/relics/events/etc, much ocular polish, much animation and VFX, prime of beingness changes, wholly caller mechanics, and "still a full batch much we can’t archer you astir conscionable yet."

"You cognize what does chopped into crippled improvement time? Game development!" the connection continued. "Compared to Slay the Spire 1's aboriginal entree motorboat (and for that matter, its last 2.0 form), this caller sequel has a batch much contented that we can't hold to stock with you. In addition, we privation to marque definite we're upholding the prime barroom that some we and the gaming assemblage person travel to expect for Early Access titles."

And successful lawsuit you were wondering… no, the hold has thing to bash with Hollow Knight: Silksong, oregon astatine slightest that's what Megacrit said, insisting it "got unneurotic arsenic a squad to find our caller merchandise model earlier Silksong's day was announced."

"The timing conscionable worked retired similar that, but connected the agleam side, everyone tin support engaged playing Silksong during the wait!" Megacrit continued.

Slay the Spire 2 is simply a sequel to the fashionable deckbuilder roguelite, featuring the Necrobinder, a wandering lich who seeks to hindrance the forgotten corpse. We thought the archetypal Slay the Spire was 'Amazing', awarding it an awesome 9/10, writing: "Slay the Spire takes immoderate of the champion parts of deckbuilding games, roguelikes, and dungeon crawlers, and mixes them into a wholly caller and highly satisfying package."

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