Ever since we first received our glimpse of the Slay the Spire 2 Regent class, I have been determined to study extra about this mysterious determine. How will his talents differ from what we have seen to date? What bizarre methods will he have up his sleeve? Why is his head formed like a star? Developer Mega Crit has lastly shined the sunshine onto this far-flung traveler from a distant world, and he is truly received a number of key programs at play. Amongst them is a secondary useful resource that persists between turns, and a stunning signature weapon which you can preserve honing to spice up its energy till it is time to ship the proper blow.
I had an web outage final week, and ended up returning to Slay the Spire to fill the downtime, which has solely reinvigorated my thirst for contemporary Slay the Spire 2 information. It stays undefeated among the many finest roguelikes; regardless of the myriad contenders which have taken after it, lots of that are wonderful, none have fairly managed to dethrone the champ. Mega Crit’s sequel may be the strongest challenger but, nonetheless, and new options equivalent to alternate paths and distinctive class mechanics are a giant a part of the attraction.
The Regent “revolves round your capability to handle his assets and scale up his energy.” On the core of his toolkit are Stars, a secondary useful resource alongside his commonplace vitality prices. Some playing cards construct this, equivalent to Hidden Cache, which provides you one Star this flip and three on the following, whereas others can have it as an extra value. In some instances, you may discover results that ramp primarily based on the Stars you could have saved. Not like vitality, Stars do not go away between turns and there isn’t any cap on the utmost you may maintain.
Whereas the Necrobinder depends on his trustworthy skeleton hand pet, the Regent can rework his playing cards into “disposable however cute minions.” The 2-cost Guards ability can rework any variety of playing cards in your hand into the zero-cost Minion Sacrifice, which is a single-use choice that provides you 11 block after which is exhausted (eliminated out of your deck for that battle). Whereas that is the one one we’re proven for now, Mega Crit does point out that some minions can assault, so anticipate to see some different variants.
The ultimate core mechanic is the Regent’s signature weapon, Sovereign Blade. Resembling the long-lasting Moonlight Greatsword so beloved by FromSoftware, this shimmering weapon offers ten injury for 2 vitality, which is not that spectacular at first. Nonetheless, it may be enhanced utilizing playing cards with the Forge key phrase, which places the Sovereign Blade in your hand in case you aren’t already holding it, and boosts its energy by the Forge worth if you’re.
As a result of the weapon has Retain, it will keep in your hand till you play it, so that you’re in a position to construct it up for a single, robust assault if that is what you want. The Regent additionally has choices that synergize with colorless playing cards, equivalent to Spectrum Shift (which provides a random colorless draw to your hand), and different scaling methods like Supermassive (deal 5 injury, plus three extra for every card created throughout this battle).
Rounding out this month’s ‘Neowsletter’ is Mega Crit’s often scheduled ‘guess the thriller monster’ competitors. It seems the bizarre head-lamp creature is a few type of surreal, wave-radiating entity that appears about as awkward sitting down as a giraffe.
“No matter capability it is utilizing, it seems it was interfering with our photo-capturing gear… and maybe the very material of actuality itself,” the developer writes. “Let’s name it The Obscura.” Subsequent month’s silhouette is a little bit simpler to learn, although I like to recommend seeing it in movement for the complete, unsettling impact.
Slay the Spire 2 is deliberate to launch into early entry in March 2026. Whereas there isn’t any affirmation of any demo or different new video teasers but, Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano hints that we “could need to preserve a very shut eye out for one thing occurring in February, nearer to the launch.”
