What a day! We’re nonetheless bustling by means of Resident Evil Requiem, Pokopia’s out immediately, and on high of that, Slay the Spire 2 is out in early entry. And in the shadows of those big releases, Slay the Spire 2 is doing significantly properly. As I sort this, it is reached 177k concurrent gamers on Steam, and that quantity continues to be actively rising. That is a new document for a roguelike on the platform, simply weeks after Mewgenics smashed the earlier document.
As reported by Eurogamer back in February, beforehand, Hades 2 held the crown for the highest concurrent participant depend on Steam for a roguelike at 112k gamers. The weekend of its launch, Mewgenics managed to surpass it, reaching 115k concurrent gamers.
Slay the Spire 2 is at the moment the fourth most-played sport on Steam proper now, behind Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Arc Raiders, and simply forward of Rust. It is even doing higher (at the second) than Resident Evil: Requiem, which at the time of this piece had round 115k concurrents (although its peak is at 344k, significantly increased). I am virtually tempted to sit down right here refreshing the web page simply to see if it may get previous 200k earlier than I publish.
That is a implausible debut for this long-awaited sequel to the widespread deckbuilder roguelike Slay the Spire which we referred to as ‘Wonderful’ at the time, and awarded a 9/10, saying: “Slay the Spire takes a few of the finest components of deckbuilding video games, roguelikes, and dungeon crawlers, and mixes them into a wholly new and very satisfying package deal.” Slay the Spire 2 is at the moment solely accessible on PC for its early entry interval, however it appears prone to get console variations as soon as it is totally launched.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Received a story tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.