Slay the Spire II has already bought over 3 million copies
Slay the Spire is a extremely addictive but relatively hardcore deck-building rogue-like. Launched again in 2019, the sport helped usher within the rise of distinctive genre-bending rogue-likes whereas nonetheless remaining related and well-liked all these years later. This seems to be doubly so the case following the current Early Entry launch of its long-awaited sequel – with Slay the Spire 2 having formally bought over 3 million copies in its first week.
Taking to their Steam web page to make the announcement, the workforce at Mega Crit revealed that “Slay the Spire 2 has been out for merely per week and now we have already hit 3,000,000 models bought with greater than 25,000,000 runs tried!! (At the very least just a few million are lacking from that final datapoint as we began gathering these metrics a bit after launch).”
Whereas actually spectacular, this determine doesn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock given the truth that upon its launch, Slay the Spire II amassed a large peak concurrent participant depend of over half one million (574,638 gamers) – a determine which has remained fairly constant every day since.
Unsurprisingly, evaluations for the sport have been equally as excessive, with the Slay the Spire II presently sitting at an ‘Overwhelmingly Constructive’ on Steam throughout 50,000 completely different scores.
After all, that is simply the beginning of the journey, with Mega Crit confirming a few of Slay the Spire II’s preliminary upcoming content material plans, together with:
- A revamp of the badge/scoring system
- Extra artwork and VFX
- Ongoing stability patches
- Steam Workshop help
- Multiplayer QOL options
- And extra
Slay the Spire II is already off to a superb begin, however with this being just the start, will probably be fascinating to see how the sport is acquired (and what number of models it would have bought) by the point the title leaves its Early Entry interval – each time that could be.
KitGuru says: What do you consider Slay the Spire II up to now? Are you hooked? How does it evaluate to the primary recreation? Tell us your ideas down under.