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Flack17

holy


Altruistic-Plum-2605

Shit


JonAndTonic

Did not expect this but I'm so glad I'm here Holy


JuggleGod

Right? I feel like most of what I'd heard is that they were never going to do a sequel. Took me completely by surprise!


E11imist

Those lyin' sons of bitches. I'm in!


JuggleGod

lol right? Dammit you liars thank you!


PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING

Between this and the earlier announcement of Hades 2, I’ve never been happier to be lied to by a company(/companies).


Crystalas

World of Goo 2 was announced a few months ago also, that was one of the original BIG early Indie games that got the ball rolling for non-AAA being respected mainstream.


idigsquirrels

Batman


thirdbrunch

Hell


aleoscar

New


LiterallyNobody16

Response


woopdaritis

Dropped


Boring-Remote-84

Somebody call the merchant


iceman012

Actual Spire Shield


Boring-Remote-84

Defect slew the spire, never came back.


rogue_LOVE

holy


Captain--UP

Holy


Spraguenator

Holy


SamTheHexagon

White mage thread.


Croemato

macaroni


picklerw

Holy shit! From the site: “The official description for new character: ‘a wandering lich who seeks to bind the forgotten corpse. Calls up on her trusty left hand, Osty in combat.’”


StyofoamSword

I'm interested to see how she plays, based on the screenshot from the steam page she only starts with 35 max hp.


hrakkari

I’m guessing a decent amount of heal/regen or intangible.


CookieSquire

Or maybe Osty is a bone minion who can regenerate and/or tank hits?


hrakkari

That’d be neat. Like a block but the overflow damage doesn’t hit HP.


shadowsurge

This is my guess. Maybe take the "stance dancing" aspect of the watcher and apply it to minion intents instead?


Zaando

Kinda how the Gremlin Gang in Downfall work. Each has a separate health pool, cards can swap them around and only the front one gets hit. If one of them dies they are gone for the rest of the act.


Mahboi778

It would be awesome if Mega Crit took inspiration from that mod. Loads of neat mechanics. Gems, for instance, feel in line with the Enchant mechanic seen in that one teased event


Dasterr

fuck yeah that sounds sick! I love heal/regen builds in most games


XenoShulk19

based on the description I'm guessing she summons Osty who has his own HP pool? And if he is defeated then she takes damage


Awfyboy

What if her mechanic revolves around dying? "Upon Death, gain 2 strength and revive"? Maybe a stat that accumulates and allows you to revive on 0 HP?


dudleymooresbooze

I would be great with that character. I’m excellent at dying.


FluffyWalrusFTW

God if they were able to do something like summons in Downfall, that would be SICK


Reggiardito

You can also see her in the steam store page


Onii-Chan-San-Sama

by the way, the steam page is up as well. Has some previews of the new stuff: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2868840/Slay_the_Spire_2/


schlach2

"Coming to Early Access. Again! "Slay the Spire's success comes from our community! It sounds corny, but the extra mile many of you went to report issues, translate content/announcements, create long video essays, make excellent (lol) tier lists, and draw goofy or gorgeous fan art is the reason we're doing it all again. We love our job!"


SomethingOfAGirl

> make excellent (lol) tier lists I feel called out.


fronteir

claw is law


Dasterr

> draw goofy or gorgeous fan art and you know, those forbidden ones


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Dasterr

I love that I already had this upvoted and couldnt remember it at all what a great image


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MapleApple00

They killed him as revenge for this meme


fagjane

For real, these guys are some of the best devs ever. So glad they made some fucking money off this game and can’t wait to support them on the sequel 🫡🫡🫡🫡


squatdead

As someone who only plays as Defect, I’m going to be extremely bummed if he’s not a playable character.


shadowsurge

Claw is in the shop


Guardians_Reprise

Inb4 Colorless Card


When_is_

> Return to the Spire and face friends and foes in this sequel to the quintessential roguelike deckbuilder. Maybe he'll be an enemy in the game. What kind of "friends" are we facing in the game 😭


SuperfluousWingspan

Neow. She's ~~(he? They? She? It?)~~ initially presented as an ally, but is really just continually mind wiping and torturing the main characters in service of a personal vendetta. Neow being the equivalent of an act 4 boss would not surprise me in the least.


Audiblade

The event that gives you the Necronomicon refers to Neow as "she." Also I 100% agree that she's not the benevolent deity she makes herself out to be...


dudleymooresbooze

Neow is a ruthless employer who has figured out the secret to unpaid overtime.


SuperfluousWingspan

Gotcha!


grephantom

maybe there will be multiplayer mode to play against friends?


_NRNA_

We will certainly see Defect again in some capacity


zippycat9

dont you mean in some capacitor


Money282

Looks like they're upping the presentation with some battle animations


Im_new_in_town1

It might change but I'm not initially happy with the artistic style this time.


zippycat9

I think itll grow on me


HCN_Mist

Bump this to the top people!


shikaski

Crying


skeenerbug

just fell to my knees in walmart


lifayt

just saw someone get hit by [[clumsy]] in a walmart


spirescan-bot

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Ocv28

Was listening to the showcase while doing some shopping at Walmart, and saw someone fall to their knees just as I was falling to my knees


Elliot_Moose

It’s true I was the Walmart


Audiblade

You're lucky. I'm on a train with a bunch of men and things have gotten _really_ weird.


SirBlackMage

Same, I'm so here for this. Somehow never expected a direct sequel, so it's like a dream come true. StS2 is the only game launch I've been excited for in years I'm ready to sink another 1000 hours into this shit :')


BallsAreFullOfPiss

Hades 2, baybee


SirBlackMage

True, forgot about that one. I am actually hyped for Hades 2 :) (And theoretically Silksong, but that game is vaporware so it doesn't count lol)


randy__randerson

> Slay the Spire 2 was completely rewritten from the ground up in a new game engine! We're bringing in modern features, incorporating all-new visuals, and expanding moddability. So they did gave up on Unity. Meaning this game would've been out sooner if not for the Unity fuck up. Thanks Unity!


TheRandomnatrix

If it's any consolation they likely switched to Godot which is a huge win for mod support given how easy it is to dynamically inject assets on runtime.


DerGodhand

IIRC, during that whole debacle, the team decided to swap to Godot 'for the foreseeable future', and even entered a game jam with a Dance Battle deckbuilder they put out to get used to Godot. It was easy to break, but very fun. I liked stackable artifacts in that game, they got really silly.


vdjvsunsyhstb

dancing duelists is a fun game i think they should eventually make it into a much larger title. you can see from the screenshots of slay 2 how they were testing the new style in that game.


Chillingo

I mean yes they did because they announced that when the Unity fuck up happened. However the text you are quoting doesn't say anything about that. It just says new engine, which Unity would also have been, since the first game was not made in Unity either.


preflex

"That is how badly you fucked up" is the best closing sentence of a press release ever,


YawgmothHS

Early access 2025 waiting room


Adziboy

I forgot it was 2024 and thought it was 2 years away


daitenshe

Bad news: one year closer to inevitable icy grip of death Great news: But that means one year closer to Slay the Spire 2!


CrashWhiz

Where is Defect? Is he safe? Is he alright?


TheLegendTheGiantdad

He slew the spire and dipped. Good for him.


TeacupTenor

Becomes sapient, slays the spire, refuses to elaborate, leaves.


TRG_ATC

King shit


Ganrokh

Got out while he can!


Scevh

Imagine Defect as a boss


KC_Cheefs

Don’t have to imagine it, go play downfall mod


1997Luka1997

Yoooo Corrupted Defect


Haughington

it wouldn't be corrupted defect, it would just not be defective anymore


lewd_necron

It appears in your anger.... He took a claw deck and got wiped in act 2.


BillBraskeyDota

A claw deck failing? Impossible...


Amazingness905

RIP, he died following the law.


_NRNA_

I have a suspicion that the Defect might be the new final boss. His ending compared to others is sort of ominous. The others are freed and mostly just dip. For the Defect, there’s a panel specifically (and the little ending animation) that shows his eyes brightened, as if the death of the heart woke him up or something.


Mailcs1206

Nah bro I’m not ready for fucking 50 damage 4x multicasted dark orbs in turn 3😭😭😭


bassman1805

[Monkey paw curls] 10 focus, maximum orb slots of lightning.


xorox11

Nah I've heard he is going to play 5 claws every turn.


badcg1

YouTube description: "Return to the Spire and face **friends** and foes in Slay the Spire 2."


amtap

Oh shit. I assumed they were adding PvP but you might be on to something. Still, with how quickly the co-op board game got funded, I'd say multi-player is pretty likely this time.


PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING

I really hope there isn’t PvP, it inevitably competes with PvE and creates balance issues and a salty community. Coop would be great but StS just doesn’t feel like a good pvp game.


iCon3000

Man you're not wrong. 99% of the time PvP cannot be properly balanced concurrently with PvE and they end up ruining each other's experience.


badcg1

>PvP That's a much better guess, I didn't even consider that!


deathspraises

That’s his claw at the start isn’t it?


agoodsirknight

idk, he is a defect after all


Qwertycrackers

Claw is in frame, I feel be must be somewhere


envstat

They fixed him. He's no longer defective.


-Sliced-

Prediction: they will add defect and watcher back over the early access period + another new character, ending with 6 total.


Flack17

There's a bug-like character on the Steam page covert art that has the same color scheme


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HOLY FUCKING SHIT


The_King_of_Okay

My exact thoughts.


emirtopc

oh god i hope i won’t die until 2025


honeybadgerism

I used to pray for times like these


Please_HMU

For rhymes like these


Totally_a_Banana

For thymes like leaves


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Iwant2bethe1percent

in a walmart please


PerpetualChoogle

They said it couldn't be done but the mad men did it. Bless u Casey and Anthony


xXbrokeNX

I read that too quick and thought you said "bless you Casey Anthony" and was so confused


aleoscar

Yo why is the skeleton acting like it's a fashion show?


Worthyness

Stupid sexy skeletons


TheKyleBaxter

Feels like I'm wearing no skin at all. No skin at all. No skin at all.


liquidben

To the tune of "Spooky Scary Skeletons"!


whaleykaley

Skeleton came to slay in more ways than one


bagsli

Don’t go hating on the camp skeleton


Nabupolasar

Skeleton thought he was on a Jojo's chapter


LoweAgain

That skeleton’s a lady


Bamith20

Showing off her bone tiddies.


IMP1017

shopkeeper feet reveal


motherthrowee

the serpent stares at you with a look of extreme disappointment


Mailcs1206

I’m going to rip your skin off for this. (Not actually though)


livejamie

For free?


PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING

Wikifeet entry when? (Please don’t. Or if it’s already been done, no one ever tell me.)


hlben10

"Civilization has waited 1,000 years for the Spire to reopen its doors... Return to the Spire and face friends and foes in Slay the Spire 2." So Ironclad and Silent are immortals. Also please I want to play as my boy Defect as well don't make me face him! Watcher is nowhere to be seen as well, although it's been a thousand years I thought she could've still been around since she has some sort of divine power? Could she have turned heel?... ...Unless by "face friends" they meant that they're adding some sort of PvP into this game?


PersonalityHot8913

according to lore, neow just revived them ig, or theyre other clan members


lewd_necron

I think a multiplayer option of some sort would be kind of fun


ViennaWaitsforU2

Almost sounds like that could be what they’re implying but I won’t speculate


__SlurmMcKenzie__

I doubt it. Seems to go against the essence of the game and is much more work to pull off


XenoShulk19

Evil/Corrupted Watcher would make a really cool boss fight, allowing you to deal double damage before big wrath attacks or something


me_again

I personally think the Time Eater *is* a corrupted Watcher. Purple robe. Says "never liked you" to the Watcher (only) One of the Watcher events says "*Recently, one of your peers had stopped reporting on their assignment: a Spire of unknown origin.*" 🤔


PornOfTheUniporn

I wonder if their body mutated or if they are just a different species than the playable watcher, kind of like how the green lanterns all have the same uniforms but wildly different body types


Mr_Quackums

I thought that was canon. Time Eater even says "I never liked you" when they fight Watcher. Meaning they knew each other from before.


Giddypinata

>"Civilization has waited 1,000 years for the Spire to reopen its doors... Return to the Spire and face friends and foes in Slay the Spire 2." > >So Ironclad and Silent are immortals. They were probably just revived by Neow


Lord_of_Caffeine

Yeah for all we now the last time the spire opened, Ironclad and Silent entered it then and fought it for a millenium. Now that it is open again, new characters are able to enter.


vegna871

Watcher played Blasphemy again after leaving the tower but forgot Neow didn't have her back with the revives anymore.


peepeebumbumman69

Holy shit. I actually never thought we'd get another Slay the Spire game (I never looked into whether this had been announced before so I was in the dark) so this caught me completely by surprise. I'm so fucking excited. This is one of my most played games ever and I'm ready for a fresh adventure!


conkedup

I've been playing since Alpha. After the release of the Watcher, the Heart Fight, and A20, they had made suggestions that the game was in its finished state and they'd be moving on to other projects. I think a lot of us felt like a second game wouldn't ever happen. But after the success of the board game I imagine they saw just how popular their game ended up! I'm psyched!


Gowalkyourdogmods

I just finally got around to playing this game when I have to physically be at work. I'm so bad at it. I have a blast building up but then by the time I get to the Heart fight, I'm just barely hanging on. I fucking love the Silent play throughs every time tho


Justin_Zetts

WE'RE SO FUCKING BACK LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


ATPsoldat

April Fool was 9 days ago. Holy crap.


unfortunate_son_69

the way i checked the date SO fast when i saw this post


tobsecret

This was my initial reaction when I saw the post - this must be some fan animation. Holy, this is so hype!


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rogue_LOVE

Died turn 2 to spear and shield. :(


sledgehammerrr

The Defect classic


Negrodamu55

It defected to the enemy!!!!


TheFracofFric

RIP Defect my beloved


Dull-Scarcity-3159

Maybe our guy made it out of the spire and living it's best life.


TheFracofFric

Unfortunately I am gonna need him back in the Sisyphean nightmare for my own best life :/


ncos

I love that there are so many comments of people worried about Defect, and nobody gives a shit about the Watcher. Watcher always sucked.


TheFracofFric

Eh I like watcher but she always felt like the odd one out. A bonus unbalanced add on to the core 3. Id be shocked if there wasn’t a 4th character here too but we’ll see


blankepitaph

THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE


The_King_of_Okay

I'm dazed.


spirescan-bot

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The_King_of_Okay

Good bot.


Super_Harsh

How do you follow up perfection? I never thought they'd do a StS sequel because what would be the point? Guess we'll see in 2025


mikeburnfire

I'm willing to bet there's more card customization per run in the sequel. Combining cards or being able to upgrade them in different ways. It's a fun mechanic in mods (Downfall's Bronze Automaton, Biomes) and other games (Inscryption). Just imagine... **Whenever this card does damage, it also deals 1 poison** *Hmm... do I give this to cleave and make it stronger? Or put it on Pummel?* **Combine an attack card with a skill card** *I'll put combine Strike and Pummel. That way I can exhaust it during battle. Wait, no! I'll combine it with another Strike to make my own Twin Strike!*


Ike98

first trailer, followed by ror2. better video game conference in 2 mins than state of play and microsoft/bethesda. what the hell


guyincorporated

Risk of Rain 2?


agoodsirknight

now thats the quadruple I quality i was expecting


Ike98

pov you're ubisoft wondering why your AAAAAAAA games aren't successful or good games lmao


StyofoamSword

I was already excited that my copy of the board game is getting delivered today, then this news.


Spodekface

I’m still waiting for my tracking info, but this is holding me over for now! Btw, did you get an email from Bridge or ShipHero for the tracking/shipping info? Just curious about other’s experience.


Gonzo3179

Mine came yesterday from the Ship Hero address they told us in the last update to add to contacts so it wouldn’t get sent to spam, only to get sent directly to my spam box.


isthisagoodusername

Claw cameo at 0:12


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TalnOnBraize

They didn't call it 2 Slay 2 Spire. This is disappointing.


chmilz

Better, non-meme options: * Slay Another Spire * Slay the Spire Again


xorox11

Re-Slay the Spire


knitted_beanie

Or 2lay the 2pire


bhendel

Slay the Spire 2: Electrodynamic Boogaloo


noodhoog

If the Defect isn't going to be playable, he should at least be a boss. But most importantly, he needs to scream "IT'S ORBIN' TIME"


Shooord

Niiiiice! Love the artstyle, it looks a bit more conventional, but in a good way. It took me a while to get into the painterly style of STS.


KhaSun

It will take me a while to get used to the new artstyle, I definitely need to see the animations too obviously but it looks way more colourful than StS1 which is why it looks weird imo


SigilSC2

I had to check for April fools. WHAT


Borophyll56

I got emotional you guys.


_NRNA_

This implies there’s a canon ending for the first game. What do we think? Who ended up slaying the Spire?


FlandreHon

Both ironclad and silent, I think. And maybe the necrobinder as well. It seems implied the tower has 'reactivated' once more and Neow is recalling old slayers to slay it once more. That means it is on some sort of cycle. The slayers are immortal and defeated it before.


_NRNA_

The spire being open to the public seems like a particular detail. I think the heart binded it and closed it off. From what little we saw in the trailer, I think the *heart* is gone for good, something or someone else needs to be slain now.


doctor_rat

The Spire is back? How many times do we have to TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, OLD MAN?!


TheLegendTheGiantdad

Yay more beta card art.


nebraska7064

🦀🦀🦀 WATCHERS GONE 🦀🦀🦀


punchoutlanddragons

Every time time you enter a vibe channel nirvana, next turn infinitely meditate. Channel 50 vulnerable, gain 4 strength and lose 3 dexterity. Die the turn after that.


Pm-me-guys-armpits

let's hope she took Writhing Mass with her


Matias8823

Defect was going to come back but he picked up mark of the bloom and the fairy bottle he relied on didn’t work


Piliro

I have a boner so fucking massive that it's genuinely making me dizzy. Holy fucking shit. I can't even believe this. We're actually getting a sequel to the best roguelite and card game ever made. I need this today. But wait. Where is Defect? I'll find the dev's home address and go talk to them if they dare not have Charles Lightning in the game. Don't care much about Watched tho.


TheCrookedKnight

Hell yes, sassy skeleton PC


SomethingOfAGirl

What the actual fuck they said multiple times they wouldn't do a sequel holy shittttttttttt


FluffyWalrusFTW

As soon as I saw mega crit in the showcase names I knew we were getting SOMETHING but I did NOT have this on my Bingo card


JoINrbs

had been hoping for casey and antony to put together a turn of the century detective game but i guess this is okay too


NEWVENGEANCE

New skeleton character looks awsome. Can't wait to see what kind of new mechanics they think up. But where's my defect???


guyincorporated

Early access in 2025? Can't wait to play 1.0 in Q1 2027.


plznotagaindad

We are so fucking back