The first major update for Slay the Spire 2, which essentially collected changes from beta patches and released them into the main branch of the game, has not gone down well with many players. The patch triggered a second, more intense wave of negative Steam reviews following a previous river of red scores, leaving the game with 66% positive lifetime and 48% positive recent reviews, with fans criticizing perceived limitations on deckbuilding, the overall difficulty of the game, and one especially unforgiving boss fight.
This trend began on April 17 and is still going, with negative reviews far outnumbering positive ones. Over 21,000 negative reviews have cropped up in the past five days. Reviews written in simplified Chinese average noticeably lower than other languages ("mixed" among a spread of "mostly positive" to "overwhelmingly positive").
