'We'll Getcha One Day Silksong' — Slay the Spire 2 Dev 'Blown Away' by Enormous Launch as It Joins Steam Top 20 Club

Slay the Spire 2 has enjoyed an tremendous aboriginal entree motorboat connected Steam, breaking into the apical 20 most-played games of each clip connected Valve’s platform.

Mega Crit’s sequel had already go the most-played roguelike ever connected Steam aft it launched past week, but now, aft hitting an astonishing 574,638 highest concurrent players implicit the weekend, it’s joined the peculiar apical 20 nine — and determination are immoderate large hitters wrong its sights.

Chief among them successful the indie abstraction is Team Cherry’s Hollow Knight: Silksong, which deed a highest of 587,150. And it’s that crippled the developers astatine MegaCrit cheekily pointed retired arsenic its people successful a societal media station celebrating their success.

“Our squad is TOTALLY blown distant by the magnitude of radical who person been playing and sharing their emotion for the crippled we've been moving connected for the past fractional decade,” MegaCrit tweeted. “We're excited to proceed to marque StS2 the champion that it tin be!! Also obligatory joke: we'll getcha 1 time Silksong.”

Mega Crit had already playfully took purpose astatine Bungie’s Marathon, which came retired the aforesaid time arsenic Slay the Spire 2, successful a tweet they yet admitted came disconnected meaner than intended. But the information is Slay the Spire 2 is the hottest video crippled connected Steam close now, and is down lone the eternally fashionable PUBG, Dota 2, and Counter-Strike 2 successful presumption of existent popularity.

You mightiness beryllium wondering what MegaCrit volition bash to capitalize connected its success. Many developers would spell hard connected microtransactions, but it doesn’t dependable similar they’re coming to Slay the Spire 2. “We’re microtransaction haters,” Casey Yano, MegaCrit co-founder, told Destructoid, contempt the information that “a batch of our players endanger to bargain each and immoderate cosmetics we whitethorn ever release.”

I’m among the galore playing astatine the moment, and I initially recovered it a tad confusing having not played the original. If you’re caller to Slay the Spire, our Slay the Spire 2 Beginner’s Guide tin assistance you get acquainted with the basics, and for fans of the archetypal game, instrumentality a look astatine the biggest changes successful Slay the Spire 2. We’ve besides got a usher to each the Slay the Spire 2 characters and however to unlock them, positive however to play co-op with friends.

Not lone are a immense fig of radical playing Slay the Spire 2, but the immense bulk are loving it. On Steam it enjoys a idiosyncratic reappraisal standing of ‘overwhelmingly positive,’ with astir 14,000 idiosyncratic reviews already online. Check retired IGN’s Slay the Spire 2 Early Access Review So Far to find retired what we think.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].