Slay the Spire 2's early access release delayed to a "secret Thursday" in March 2026, alternate acts teased

Devs accidental "there's nary azygous melodramatic reason" it's been pushed retired of 2025

You're gonna person to hold a spot longer to execution the steeple for a 2nd time, with Slay The Spire II's aboriginal entree merchandise having conscionable been delayed until March adjacent year. Developers Mega Crit person astatine slightest cushioned the stroke by revealing the time of the week it'll arrive. A Thursday. Which Thursday? The cheeky folks won't say.

"After a batch of interior discussion, we've made the telephone to determination Slay the Spire 2's Early Access motorboat to a concealed Thursday successful March 2026," Mega Crit wrote successful their September newsletter connected Steam. "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."

"There's nary azygous melodramatic reason," they added. "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."

Thus follows a little Q&A conception successful which the workplace ruled retired immoderate theories astir the hold folks mightiness person had, specified arsenic it being yet different merchandise of Hollow Knight: Silksong's motorboat gobbling up a immense magnitude of attention. "We got unneurotic arsenic a squad to find our caller merchandise model earlier Silksong’s day was announced," Mega Crit assemblage manager Demi wrote. "The timing conscionable worked retired similar that, but connected the agleam side, everyone tin support engaged playing Silksong during the wait!"

They did admit that adding a batch much caller worldly to the look established by the archetypal Slay The Spire is portion of the impetus for the change, but made wide this sequel shouldn't go a crippled that gets "repeatedly delayed with nary explanation". "For 1 thing, you should ne'er expect vigor soundlessness from us," Mega Crit explained. "That’s wherefore we’re present talking to you now. And, arsenic opposed to a wide merchandise year, we person an existent circumstantial day that we’re aiming for internally and are assured we tin deed this time."

With that retired of the way, the devs teased different of Slay the Spire 2's caller features, alternate acts. Basically, erstwhile you unlock it, erstwhile you participate a caller enactment implicit the people of your tally you tin trigger a prime betwixt 2 paths with antithetic environs and foes. The illustration fixed is 1 way offering "a lush, tangled ruin with overmuch of its fauna resembling mystical woodland creatures and sentient flora that mightiness conscionable devour you alive", portion the other's "a miry waterway connected to the Spire's sewer system, from which each mode of mutant oversea creatures and vagrants mightiness emerge".

The crippled won't motorboat with each of the planned alternate acts successful place, with immoderate acceptable to get down the enactment arsenic portion of aboriginal entree updates.

If you've not fixed the archetypal Slay the Spire a go, here's RPS founderperson Alec Meer's reappraisal of its roguelikey deckbuilding. The strapline reads "a occurrence of design", truthful I deliberation it's just to presume his thumb was pointed skywards.