Slay the Spire 2 Launches, Immediately Shatters a Concurrent Player Record on Steam

What a day! We're inactive bustling done Resident Evil Requiem, Pokopia's retired today, and connected apical of that, Slay the Spire 2 is retired successful aboriginal access. And successful the shadows of these elephantine releases, Slay the Spire 2 is doing peculiarly well. As I benignant this, it's reached 177k concurrent players connected Steam, and that fig is inactive actively rising. That's a caller grounds for a roguelike connected the platform, conscionable weeks aft Mewgenics smashed the erstwhile record.

As reported by Eurogamer backmost successful February, previously, Hades 2 held the crown for the highest concurrent subordinate number connected Steam for a roguelike astatine 112k players. The play of its launch, Mewgenics managed to surpass it, reaching 115k concurrent players.

Slay the Spire 2 is presently the 4th most-played crippled connected Steam close now, down Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Arc Raiders, and conscionable up of Rust. It's adjacent doing amended (at the moment) than Resident Evil: Requiem, which astatine the clip of this portion had astir 115k concurrents (though its highest is astatine 344k, considerably higher). I'm astir tempted to beryllium present refreshing the leafage conscionable to spot if it tin get past 200k earlier I publish.

That's a fantastic debut for this long-awaited sequel to the fashionable deckbuilder roguelike Slay the Spire which we called 'Amazing' astatine the time, and awarded a 9/10, saying: "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." Slay the Spire 2 is presently lone disposable connected PC for its aboriginal entree period, but it seems apt to get console versions erstwhile it's afloat released.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].