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Slay the Spire

We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

Developer
Mega Crit
Publisher
Mega Crit
Franchise
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Release date
Jan 23, 2019
Store page updated
Mar 20, 2026
Price
−75% $24.99 $6.24 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

86.7/ 100

Based on 414 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 94% of 945
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 218,524
“game so engaging played 200 hours before realizing skill gap”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.76
Strategy +4.00
“tremendous depth with endless learning curve and unique runs” (102)

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Story & World
+1.35

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

World +2.47

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Content Volume
+2.74
Replayability +4.31
“endlessly replayable, 1000 hours played, regret nothing” (60)

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Visuals & Sound
+1.97
Visuals +1.00

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Multiplayer
+2.94

Not enough data — only 3% of reviews mention this.

Community +1.88

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Fairness
+1.05
Balance +0.15
“good balance between randomness and difficulty, nearly infinite replayability” (12)
Хороший карточный рогалик с простеньким визуалом и достойным, по меркам жанра, балансом рандома и сложности. В своё время привлёк огромное количество игроков в жанр соло-декбилдеров, за что авторам огромный респект. Если вы любитель ККИ, который почему-то ещё не покорял шпиль, то самое время попробовать. Эта игра - идеальное сочетание базовых правил картонок с постоянно прогрессирующей сложностью и почти бесконечной реиграбельностью

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Tech & Ops
+1.22

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Developer support +1.00

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
70%80%90%100%
Nov 2017Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 922 reviews, peak 55/day
050100
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 414 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English32%
  • Chinese25%
  • Japanese9%
  • Russian8%
  • Spanish6%
  • Portuguese6%
  • Other13%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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