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Slay the Spire
Developer Mega Crit
Slay the Spire is a 2019 roguelike deck-building game developed by the indie studio Mega Crit. It was published by Mega Crit for its initial PC release and by Humble Bundle for home consoles and mobile platforms. The game was released in early access for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux in late 2017, with an official release in January 2019. It was released for PlayStation 4 in May 2019, for Nintendo Switch in… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
628 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
92
LovedLoved
384 positive · 33 negative
95% range 89–94%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 384 | 33 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 53 | 3 | 106 |
| Lemmy * | 6 | 1 | 19 |
| Mastodon * | 8 | 2 | 13 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
90,135 of 92,543 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
91% recommend · 225 yes, 22 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 247 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (213,663 of 219,246 positive).
Players find Slay the Spire highly addictive, often losing track of time. [1][2][3] Many praise its deep strategic gameplay and endless replayability. [4][5][6] Some criticize its reliance on RNG and lack of content after unlocking everything. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [8]
A Well-Designed Puzzle Undermined by RNG Personal opinion – 4.5/10 Slay the Spire is a clever concept with a strong foundation, but its heavy reliance on RNG ultimately overshadows its strategic depth. While the game presents itself as a skill-based, deck-building roguelike, in practice too many runs are decided by factors outside the player’s control. I’m fully aware that the fanbase often reacts poorly to …
- [16]
Before You Read I picked this game up during the Winter Sale last year because it appeared in the historical low price section. Honestly, it was an impulse purchase and I was not even sure if I would ever play it. It turned out to be a complete eye opener. Before playing this game, I had absolutely no experience with card games. Not even in real life. I did not know what deck building meant or how it worked. Yet …
- [17]
Slay the Spire is what happens when a deck-building game looks at your free time, your sanity, and your fragile human hope, then politely asks if it can borrow them forever—and you say yes because the cards make a nice *shuffling sound*. You begin as a humble adventurer climbing a cursed tower. Within minutes, you are no longer an adventurer—you are a gambling addict in medieval cosplay, desperately praying that …
- [10]
All I can say is that this is the best game I have ever played. If you put the time into learning Slay the Spire it will hook you like no other game and give you an extremely satisfying yet very difficult challenge. This game is not easy, and yet I think that it is one of the most amazing things about it. There are so many games that have very interesting and deep gameplay mechanics that go completely unused and …
- [18]
Slay the Spire – On Suffering, Redemption, and Being Body-Slammed by a Donut Playtime: 130 hours People always ask, "How do you understand the human condition?" Dostoevsky says it's suffering and redemption. Camus says we're just rolling a boulder up a hill forever. Neruda says look into your lover's eyes. But me? I think the human condition is spending forty-five minutes carefully curating a deck of cards, feeling …
Summarised from 34 of the 371 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 9, 2026. How summaries are made
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Slay the Spire sits at 92% positive across 417 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
According to Mega Crit, the game's first early access release in November 2017 was very slow, with about 2000 copies selling across the first weeks, the period in which most games sell the most copies. While they had seeded redemption keys with streamers and influencers, these had not converted into sales. It was not until a Chinese streamer featured the game on their channel that had over a million views that Mega Crit started to see a large rise in sales. During the week ending January 21, 2018, Slay the Spire was the second highest-sold game on Steam. By February 2018, the game had more than 500,000 players, according to SteamSpy estimates. Mega Crit announced that by the end of June,…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 628 · most liked firstCHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,
positive · AI labelView post →"Oh i dont have any budgets, that's why i used AI as placeholder voices, images and musics" ❌WRONG❌ Slay The Spire 2, the MOST anticipated roguelike deckbuilder of the year, uses these silly scribbles as placeholder arts, and they are 1000 times more charming than any slop those will ever produce.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking about how much better Slay the Spire was because of the extremely funny beta art. imagine if they just prompted a machine to "make card art serious game clumsy", what a boring world that is
positive · AI labelView post →announcing my new new game: Castle v Castle!!! a strategic 1v1 castle battler that has you build up your castle and reduce your opponent to rubble, brick by brick! DEMO OUT NOW!!! with funding from Slay the Spire dev @caseyyano.bsky.social via Outersloth (Among Us) and Future Friend support!
neutral · AI labelView post →Chotiner: You must like this Slay the Spire game a lot if you've dedicated so much time to it. Me: Oh yes, absolutely. It's one of my favorites. Chotiner: You must be quite good at the game by now if you've played it for this long. Me: This interview is over.
positive · AI labelView post →I think this is correct but will take it further and say the more hours you get out of a video game, the more expensive it should be regardless of budget. Slay the Spire should cost fifteen thousand dollars
positive · AI labelView post →For all of these game devs that keep coming out saying, "well we had to use AI to generate placeholder images for our game otherwise it wouldn't work." I present to you, Slay the Spire II (The last one is my favorite)
neutral · AI labelView post →Slay the Spire: The Board Game is really clever in that it manages to capture the vibe of the video game's difficulty while actually being significantly easier
positive · AI labelView post →This game is so good that it has taken me close to 200 hours of gameplay before I finally realized that I am trash at this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slay the Spire - SLAY The Spire, we love the game don't we folks, the little cards, people are always saying to me "sir I can't play The Defect! It's too hard, I couldn't beat the heart," yet I've beaten the heart many times, some are saying the most it's ever been done
positive · AI labelView post →I got addicted to Slay the Spire 2... So let's play some more of it! www.youtube.com/live/CnGrlWX...
positive · AI labelView post →Before You Read I picked this game up during the Winter Sale last year because it appeared in the historical low price section. Honestly, it was an impulse purchase and I was not even sure if I would ever play it. It turned out to be a complete eye opener. Before playing this game, I had absolutely no experience with card games. Not even in real life. I did not know what deck building meant or how it worked. Yet somehow the game pulled me in purely because of how well it is designed. All of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Late waiting room sorry sorry! Playing Slay the Spire 2! Don't ask me how many hours I have in it by now... www.youtube.com/live/2sRXB09...
positive · AI labelView post →Slay the Spire 2 has now passed 500k concurrent users on Steam The game is currently $22.49 (10% off) for owners of the first game store.steampowered.com/bundle/68595...
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Beyond", background art I painted for Slay the Spire, 2016. One of my favorite areas of the game to visually design!
positive · AI labelView post →saw the slay the spire in my steam library and fell in again. Beaten this game so many times and it’s insane how it feels fresh again every six months- WHEN IS 2 WHEN IS SLAY THE SPIRE 2 WHEN WILL IT OUT
positive · AI labelView post →A reminder that it is almost always better to have janky placeholder or doodle art than AI-generated trash. Y'know what game did that? Slay The Spire, and EVERYBODY ON EARTH loves Slay The Spire.
neutral · AI labelView post →After 152.3 hours of playing this game, I thought it might be best for me to uninstall it so that I could focus more on my school work so that I can graduate and get my Bachelor's degree. One week later, Slay the Spire II was released. I am going to fricking fail my classes, bro.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My kid got me into this game via the board game. We played that thing to death....well, the heart never really dies... but my son had been playing the digital game, and well, let's just say I have put 120 hours into this game in the last few weeks....Need to get back to work now....or....maybe one more game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Godot powered Slay the Spire 2 has already hit over 3 million sales #SlaytheSpire2 #Godot #IndieGames #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the video: Oh nice! Moldrise, a Godot game! Oh nice! Pathogenic, another Godot game! Oh nice! Pathogenic is being compared to Slay the Spire 2, another Godot game! Is this what world domination looks like?
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel this is what my Slay The Spire posts look like to people who don’t play the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Slay the Spire is an inherently transfeminine game for reasons which should be obvious
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neutral · AI labelView post →This is what the game that inspired Slay the Spire looks like
neutral · AI labelView post →You never really appreciate how good Slay the Spire is until you play a game attempting to be Slay the Spire and are annoyed by a million different things
positive · AI labelView post →📢 The Kickstarter campaign for the Slay the Spire board game Downfall expansion is LIVE NOW!! The fan-favorite community mod for StS1 is getting its own OFFICIAL expansion to the board game, allowing you and your friends to play as some of the Spire’s infamous bosses. Link below ⬇️
neutral · AI labelView post →Slay the Spire. The game requires you to use all your brainpower on the highest difficulty even if you already sunk hundreds of hours into it. The learning curve is almost endless and no 2 runs are the same. The game has tremendous depth and the longer you play, the more you can appreciate it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I play Slay the Spire on my phone... But it originally came out on PC. Great game though!
positive · AI labelView post →I owe you an apology, Regent i wasn't really familiar with your game #MewgleGaming (Slay the Spire 2)
positive · AI labelView post →"We wouldn't have caught the issue without it": Slay the Spire 2 gets a patch for broken RNG after player turns in gruelling eight hour video exposé.
neutral · AI labelView post →SURPRISE!! I'm live on stream playing Slay the Spire!! Let's see if I can play a card game properly!! twitch.tv/marikyuun
neutral · AI labelView post →Slay the Spire 2 multiplayer is so good, it literally just plays like the board game
positive · AI labelView post →Now seems to be the perfect time to review Slay the Spire. As we sit right now, during the Steam Winter Sale 2025, it is $2.49. That is a total steal. On the surface, it might look a little bland. The art style isn't necessarily going to win any awards for beauty. Although I don't actually mind it, there's kind of a charm to it. But objectively, not the prettiest. The game shines among deckbuilders for the card interactions, the character abilities and the way the game sets up the path to the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slay the Spire is what happens when a deck-building game looks at your free time, your sanity, and your fragile human hope, then politely asks if it can borrow them forever—and you say yes because the cards make a nice *shuffling sound*. You begin as a humble adventurer climbing a cursed tower. Within minutes, you are no longer an adventurer—you are a gambling addict in medieval cosplay, desperately praying that your next card reward contains something that doesn’t actively ruin your life.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My partner got me the Slay The Spire board game for my birthday so we're all playing it and I'm really enjoying it!
positive · AI labelView post →This week we're starting Slay The Spire: the Board Game on The Long Game! twitch.tv/loadingready...
neutral · AI labelView post →In the spire straight up "evoking it" and by it, haha well, lets just say my ORBS
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah but I don't want to play Slay the Spire I wanna play a versus card game =(
neutral · AI labelView post →176th game of 2026 is "Slay the Spire: The Board Game," a really nice direct implementation of the computer game.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally playing Slay The Spire, and I'm a Relic collecting goblin. This game actually fucking rules. 😍
positive · AI labelView post →Slay the Spire 2 is very good, best video game multiplayer experience ✨
positive · AI labelView post →A Well-Designed Puzzle Undermined by RNG Personal opinion – 4.5/10 Slay the Spire is a clever concept with a strong foundation, but its heavy reliance on RNG ultimately overshadows its strategic depth. While the game presents itself as a skill-based, deck-building roguelike, in practice too many runs are decided by factors outside the player’s control. I’m fully aware that the fanbase often reacts poorly to criticism, and that terms like “RNG mitigation” and “deck manipulation” are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Happy Slay the Spire 2 and no other relevant game release year!
neutral · AI labelView post →Reached out to a couple of the biggest Slay the Spire streamers on Youtube to see about having them feature my game when it's released on Steam. Still no idea what I'm doing, but I'm trying really hard at all the things.
neutral · AI labelView post →Slay the Spire 2 is 25 bucks? This better be the best game of all time!
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun synergies, cool combos, lots of collectables and combinations. kept me captivated for over 100hrs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Any Slay the Spire fans out there? Here are four minis I painted from the board game! I don't usually play video games now but Slay the Spire has been a consistent one I do play. My kingdom for more StS minis! #nerdlings #paintingminiatures
positive · AI labelView post →All I can say is that this is the best game I have ever played. If you put the time into learning Slay the Spire it will hook you like no other game and give you an extremely satisfying yet very difficult challenge. This game is not easy, and yet I think that it is one of the most amazing things about it. There are so many games that have very interesting and deep gameplay mechanics that go completely unused and unappreciated because the game is easy enough that players will never have to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slay the Spire 2 isn’t 1.0 until they put us in the game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally playing the Slay The Spire board game after putting 600+ hours into the video game version and it fucking rocks actually
positive · AI labelView post →Great game. One minute its 6pm, next minute its 3am and you're still dying to Book of Stabbing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After over 4,000 hours I can honestly say that this is my favorite game. I love deck builders, and this game is the best of the best.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The amount of positive reviews are astonishing! A lot of people wrote that he bought the game 2 weeks ago and has 70 hours in it because its so addicting with alot of more who has thousands of hours too. I dont know what you peole on about, but this game is unintresting and boring at the same time. Its not bad, its just simply plain boring waste of time. Genuine question, what is addicting about this game? I bought this 5 years ago, since i gave it alot of chance to click, but i swear to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game consistently reminds me how bad I am at preparing for the future just like how I'm consistently not taking the necessary steps to set myself up for a successful career despite being given all the opportunities to do so (I keep choosing to rest at full hp irl) I rate it a Retain. Enter Divinity. Die next turn. Exhaust./10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am loving the board game implementation of Slay the Spire. So many good decisions to make the cards work in this format
positive · AI labelView post →I try so hard and get so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ruh roh all my Slay the Spire 2 progress got wiped Time to slay the spire and lose 1000 hours to this game again
positive · AI labelView post →Probably the best Roguelike deckbuilder games I've come across in recent memory. As an older gamer, I appreciate the casuality of the game. You can stop playing at literally any moment, you don't even need to pause; you don't need internet connection, so you can play on a plane; it's incredibly deep, brilliant, fun, and as immersive as you can afford to be immersed without punishing you for not being able to commit. You can come back at any moment without feeling the frustration of being out…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So fun, so replayable, and so addictive. I got hours of enjoyment out of this
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