Slay The Spire

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It’s October, the month of tricks, treats, and… spooooky things~🦇💀

For those who missed it, we announced a delay last month. Slay the Spire 2 is coming to Early Access in March 2026. I know, I know, it’s hard to wait.

But speaking of spooky things, let us properly introduce you to…

The Necrobinder

At long last, the time has come to dive deeper into the first new character we announced for Slay the Spire 2: The Necrobinder, a sassy lich who relies upon a giant, reanimated hand called Osty in battle. (It’s a funny name but not technically a pun, so should be safe.) [...]

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• Calm
• Divinity
• Wrath
• Divinity + Conjure Blade

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(referencing Demon Days)

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After beating A20 + heart with Watcher a friend said I should try with a different class because it would be harder (they were right), so I tried it with Ironclad. I had a few runs where I got to final bosses / heart but still lost so I over-corrected and tried to pick more scaling, which just made me lose far more, far earlier into my runs.

So the lesson wasn't that I needed more scaling, it was that sometimes on A20 you just lose lol.

Hi everyone, it’s time for the September Neowsletter. This one comes with a pretty big update right off the top, so let’s dive right into it.

Early Access Timeline Update

After a lot of internal discussion, we’ve made the call to move Slay the Spire 2’s Early Access launch to a secret Thursday in March 2026. [...]

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I tried multiple OCR attempts to translate the Korean. No idea what the right says, but left says "empty".

Anyone got any tips to putting this guy six feet under more consistently?

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This is, of course, a parody of the cover of Nevermind by Nirvana

Greetings! This month's issue marks the 1-year anniversary of The Neowsletter!! Thank you to everyone who has been reading along since the beginning.

The Mega Crit team is still hard at work on the sequel. We're on that grindset >:( But also striking a good work/life balance >:)

The main focus lately has been content. It has to be fresh, challenging, and complex while also making sure that the game is accessible to new players and retains that Slay the Spire feel and magic. That was a bit too vague to be interesting news... let's take a sneak peek at some relics and potions instead! [...]

Slay the Spire x VA-11 Hall-A

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VA-11 Hall-A x Slay the Spire

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• Invidious
• Youtube

I'm relatively new to this game, having purchased it a few months ago, and I'm still not very good at it. However, I feel like I am slowly getting better on each of the characters, with the exception of the Watcher.

I'm trying to kill the Heart on all toons before increasing to A1. I can consistently get to the heart on the 3 other characters, but cannot consistently even get past act 2 on the Watcher. I'm not sure I've beaten the slavers once yet on the Watcher. Does anyone have any general tips for the Watcher? I know stance dancing is important, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do this without just getting murdered.

My deck never seems to scale faster than the enemies in act 2 and 3. I rarely seem to have enough damage to make switching to wrath worthwhile with the amount of damage I will then take due to enemy attacks. But I can't sit back and wait for the ideal time to wrath as my deck never has enough defense to block turn after turn. It just seems like whatever I do, I can't kill the enemies before losing too much health and eventually dying after several floors and fights.

It's frustrating me that I cannot figure out how to play well with the watcher. I'm sure my card selection and turn by turn play is terrible still, but I simply don't know what I'm doing wrong to improve.

For anyone interested in the person behind the music. I decided to research this because I love the music to Slay the Spire it's a full orchestral score and sounds so much better than most game music. Clark Aboud composes for other games and films so you can listen to more examples of his work on his site.