Slay the Spire 2 has been wildly successful so far – notwithstanding the piles of negative reviews that every balance change for the early access game seems to garner – but the developers at Mega Crit initially didn't want to make a sequel at all. Instead, they'd hoped to just keep updating the original with new features and tweaks, but that started to look pretty unrealistic when their publisher shut down.
"In a Reddit comment a long time ago, I was like, 'We're not going to make a sequel! Why would we do that? We'll just update the first one,'" as Slay the Spire co-creator Casey Yano says in Edge Magazine issue #423. "But I guess we were a little naive."
