Think about a second, alternate model of our world. The whole lot is similar, on the floor. The sky is blue, the economic system is in shambles; it is the unnatural order of issues. And but, you can’t assist however really feel one thing is completely different. Like there’s one thing lacking, or maybe changed. Ah, there it’s – Slay the Spire 2 will not be a sport that even remotely exists. Because it seems, this world, our world, the place the roguelike known as Slay the Spire 2 does, or relatively will, exist, is barely the world we exist in due to the flip of a coin.
This, I wish to be clear, will not be a joke. “We had been engaged on a bunch of tiny initiatives, little prototypes, and had been having enjoyable however stated ‘okay, let’s get collectively once more,'” defined Mega Crit co-founder Anthony Giovannetti advised PC Gamer in a current interview. Apparently this was throughout Covid, and each Giovannetti and Casey Yano had been on the lookout for their subsequent correct venture.
Based on Giovannetti, a Slay the Spire sequel wasn’t the one thought that they had. “We had completely different paths we might work on,” he defined. “One was a very completely different venture, and one was the sequel. I assumed there have been some fascinating design challenges to work on a sequel with. We ended up flipping a coin, really, and Slay the Spire 2 gained out. So we began engaged on it, and the remainder is historical past.”
The coin flip itself is not one thing Giovannetti witnessed first hand, it was Yano that did it over a Discord name, which the previous notes was “perhaps questionable,” however he nonetheless believes he was advised “true outcome. I feel Casey would’ve massively most well-liked the coin went the opposite manner, as a result of I used to be at all times the cardboard sport individual, and he was the motion sport individual.”
There may be nothing extra joyful, to me, than seeing the creator of a factor interact in an train that’s so immediately tied to the type of factor that they make. On this case, it’s Mega Crit taking part in with that fickle sport known as likelihood, within the hopes that it’s going to work out, that they may, in the event that they’re fortunate sufficient, slay the spire. However perhaps do not do that when you aren’t actually the parents who made Slay the Spire, this is not some extent in historical past to be taking pointless dangers.
Slay the Spire 2 is at present slated for launch on a “secret Thursday” in March 2026, the place you’ll play it in early entry. You possibly can wishlist it on Steam right here.
