Slay the Spire 2 Launch Day — 95% Positive and 'Overwhelmingly' Rated

Published 2026-03-06Updated 2026-09-194 min read

Slay the Spire 2 launched to 'Very Positive' status: 1,863 user reviews at 95% positive within hours, an 88-yuan regional price, and a two-game collection bundle at 38% off.

StS2 guide illustration
StS2 guide illustration

Launch day arrived, and the reviews poured in warm: within hours of going live on March 6, Slay the Spire 2 sat at "Overwhelmingly Positive" on Steam — 1,863 user reviews, 95% positive — numbers most Early Access launches never see at any point, let alone on day one.

The commercial package was part of the story. The game launched at the confirmed regional pricing, and newcomers got the Slay the Spire Collection — both games together at 38% off, a "here's where the genre started" bundle that doubled as a masterclass in franchise onboarding.

Player sentiment, as the launch-day roundups noted, was close to unanimous: the sequel's evolution of the deckbuilding formula — the two new classes, co-op, the Ancients system — was landing exactly as the launch announcement had promised.

The warmth didn't last unbroken — the community's first balance clash was weeks away (the infinite-nerf backlash), and May's drama waves were coming. But launch day itself was the purest snapshot of the sequel's standing: a genre founder returning after seven years, and its audience showing up en masse to say welcome back.

The numbers kept climbing all day — server-crashing crowds, a global #1 seller slot, and concurrency records that fell one after another.

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