Looking to eat up the time until Slay the Spire 2 comes out? We have just the thing!



While away the hours with your very own limited edition Time Eater plush from Makeship by your side! Plus, the next time Time Eater ruins one of your runs you'll have a healthy, squeezable outlet for your frustration ^-^

Get yours here now--before time runs out!!

It's time for us to reveal what we've been working on for the last 3+ years!
Could it be!? A sequel to Slay the Spire? Yes, it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krDFltgjLtE

While it's not available until we figure out a good launch window in 2025, we can say for certain that it's coming to Steam, it will be launching with a ton of stuff, and it will be very very fun to play.

Check out the store page with screenshots and information here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2868840

We'll be revealing more information on the Slay the Spire 2 store page as we near launch so be sure to Wishlist, Follow, or whatever to keep up-to-date if you want to know more.

You can also follow us on social media if that's your preference:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/megacrit
  
• Discord: https://discord.gg/slaythespire
  

Everybody's favorite geometric duo are here and softer than ever!

It's time for another merch drop: the limited edition Deca and Donu plush campaign from Makeship is now live!



If you've ever wanted to squeeze these iconic Slay the Spire bosses (whether out of love or frustration) now is your chance!! But don't wait, because the pre-order campaign ends in 21 days--and after that they're gone for good!

Disclaimer: DONU IS NOT EDIBLE... OFFICIALLY.

PS - The Mega Crit team knows you're all looking forward to news of our next game, and while we can't give you an ETA on that just yet... be sure to stay tuned!

You'll never have to Slay the Spire alone again once you have these adorable, limited edition figures of the Ironclad and the Silent by your side!

Our friends over at Youtooz are bringing you all the first ever official Slay the Spire vinyl figures!! They're available to pre-order NOW, so get yours here before they're gone for good!



And since this is our last announcement of 2023, we want to take this opportunity to wish you all a Mega Crit-mas and a happy new year! It's been a busy year for our team: working on our new game, learning a new engine, migrating said game to said engine, etc. We're happy we've been able to partner with other companies that can bring our fans cool merch like this in the meantime, and we're so excited for you all to see what we here at Mega Crit have been cooking when the time comes!

Until then: slay on, Slayers.

tu-thump, tu-thump, tu-thump...



A deep glowing dread can be felt throughout the room...



It's the heart of the Spire! Looking considerably... squishier than usual?

That's right, we've teamed up with Makeship once again to bring you another exclusive, limited edition plushie: the glow-in-the-dark Corrupt Heart!!

And bonus--this plush doubles as a stress reliever that you can squeeze every time you fail to slay the Heart ^-^

As a reminder, Makeship plushies are limited run only, meaning once the pre-order campaign ends in 21 days they'll be gone for good! Be sure to nab yours soon so you don't miss out!

Get ready to rumble to the rhythm in Dancing Duelists, a deckbuilding autobattler dance off with a cast of fantastical characters and a BUMPIN' soundtrack!

Due to recent events, the Mega Crit team has been looking for an engine to migrate our next big game to from Unity, so we've been working on this little game for a few weeks now to acquaint ourselves with Godot, our new official engine of choice! It also just so happens to coincide with the Jump Ship Jam, an event that encourages game developers to branch out and create something with new engines & tools!

We're super proud of how this project turned out in such a small timeframe, and we'd love for you to check it out!

You can download Dancing Duelists now for free on itchi.io here!

Buckle up, a Neow plushie PRE-ORDER page is available right now! We teamed up with Makeship to do a limited plushie production. Once the campaign is over, you won't be able to get this plushie ever again .

A plushie isn't simply a lifeless husk filled with cotton. For instance, you can ask Neow to give you advice and you can choose which one of three choices will impact the rest of your run day.


"Choose... wisely..."

Wow, very useful. Thanks Neow! You can get one of your own by simply clicking on any of these high quality drawings of Neow:


Help Neow explore social media!
We're uploading Neow with a transparent background to explore the world outside the Spire!

"I... want... to be... free"

Just download the image and make your own!

[h3]Some High Quality Examples[/h3]




Let us know via e-mail (devs@megacrit.com) or our Twitter (@MegaCrit) and we'll give you a shoutout even if you're evil!

That's all for now, have a nice day.

Oh, are you still scrolling? Well, here's Neow exploring the overgrowths.


Little known fact. Neow is also a ruthless mahjong shark.


Okay, we took all these pictures for you. Be sure to buy one!

Greetings!

We found a fix for a longstanding issue where the game didn't launch for non-English PC usernames without a workaround.

Patch Notes

• BUG FIX: Fixed crash on start for Windows usernames with non-English characters
  

Hello!

Hope everyone's enjoying the winter season.
Here at Mega Crit we've been working on another game.

BUT... there's been reports of the Steam Deck controller inputs acting up if you touch the screen so here's a fix for that.

Happy Holidays!

Patch Notes

• BUG FIX: Fixed skills/powers becoming unplayable if you enter/exit controller mode during combat
  

Hey everyone,

We've teamed up with Contention Games and have been secretly working on Slay the Spire: The Board Game for the past few years.

Unlike the video game, the board game features cooperative deckbuilding where 1 - 4 players can go on an adventure to Slay the Spire!



We've got stretch goals, playmats, shiny real metal coins, and all sorts of other goodies in the various pledge tiers.

There's even a spooky beta art box~

[h2]What? Claw is law??[/h2]


Anyways. The board game is initially launching for English, French, and German and ships wherever Kickstarter ships things (most places).
*Chinese (Simplified) and Korean versions will be available later in a separate crowdfunding campaign

Why are you still here? Go to the Kickstarter page now!

Hey everyone, its been a while!

Just a small update fixing some OSX crashes that were introduced in a recent Apple update.
Please let us know if anyone still has issues running Slay the Spire on OSX!

BUG FIX: Fixed crash introduced in OSX 12.6.
LOC: Updates for FIN, SPA.

Hey there,

We updated the game to address a problem where players using 32bit operating systems were unable to play. This should show up as V2.3: 03-07-2022. Sorry about that!

Hello, long time no announcement!

Slay the Spire is getting an update for Steam Deck compatibility and a handful of language updates. It's also a good opportunity to discus what we've been up to.

Steam Deck
The newly added Steam Deck compatibility means that we're enabling Steam Input, allowing users to use a wider variety of controllers and customize input settings through Steam's Controller Configuration. This couldn't be done without the help of the steamworks4j project, thank you!

The upcoming Steam Deck hardware utilizes Steam Input so Slay the Spire will work nicely out of the box. The Steam Deck is currently compatible with the latest default and beta branch versions of the game.

Be sure that Steam Input is enabled for the game and that you're using the Official Configuration. Those who want to use the old controller logic can also disable Steam Input. As before, all of our previous builds are available and accessible by switching branches. Learn more about branches here.



If you experience any issues, don't hesitate to contact us at support@megacrit.com

What's up with Mega Crit?
We've been secretly hiring people and have begun developing secret projects. Do not ask us what these projects are. They are secret so we cannot tell you.

Our team size has grown quite a bit with the addition of 4 new Mega Critters:

• Zach Lindblad: Coding
  
• Jose Pacio: Even more coding
  
• Jake Card: Even more coding
  
• Marlowe Dobbe: Art
  

• Retaliate against the Woman in Blue for all those times she punched you!
  
• Hire the Red Bandit gang to work for you!
  
• Save a baby Snecko from a horrible owner! (even villains love baby Sneckos)
  

Happy post-Holidays!

As the title of this post suggests, we're bringing in Steam Input in the beta branch in anticipation of the Steam Deck release. We're also updating some languages and adding Finnish!

Patch Notes

UI and Effects

• Added Steam Input support for better compatibility with upcoming Steam Deck.
  

• Added Finnish language.
  
• Serbian language support for main branch (beta already had them on).
  
• Updates for DUT, EPO, ITA, JPN, POL, RUS, SPA, SRB, SRP, TUR, VIE.
  

• Removed excessive display config loading.
  

• Updated log4j to 2.17.0 to prevent any future issues.
  

A patch has been pushed to address some ultrawide issues with controllers and some improved resolution selection options.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed button placements for confirmation and rename popup UI in Ultrawide.
  
• Fixed button prompt to open shop screen rendering behind merchant.
  
• Fixed crash when pressing select button on controllers twice when selecting boss chest relics/blights.
  
• Fixed LB/RB buttons in card library screen misplaced in Ultrawide.
  
• Fixed placement for button prompt to access Map Legend.
  
• Fixed save slots looking kinda tall.
  

• Allowing fullscreen resolutions to change the monitor's resolution. Previously, fullscreen was only for the current resolution.
  
• Fullscreen resolutions now show the aspect ratio which the game will change to.
  
• Resolution dropdowns now show all available resolutions based on which display mode you're toggled to.
  

• Updates for POL.
  

Happy Holidays!

We've got exciting collaborations, support for wider aspect ratios, performance improvements, and made a few balance changes to some cards.

Improvements! Tweaks!
While we're awaiting news from our publishing and porting teams for the Android mobile release, we're bringing some more of the under-the-hood improvements to PC! This includes support for ultrawidescreen up to 21:9 and various hitbox and font size improvements for our touchscreen mode and general performance improvements.

The Watcher joins Fraymakers

The Watcher is making an appearance in McLeodGaming's upcoming title: Fraymakers. Check them out and maybe pitch in to their Kickstarter if you want to see a crossover fighting game starring indie characters and a character creator. We think it's pretty cool!

SteelSeries Game Sense Support

We collaborated with SteelSeries to bring lighting effects to your gaming peripherals. Very shiny stuff.

Run Data

Our approximation of what the charts will look like.

We've been receiving a lot of requests for Slay the Spire run histories for data analysis projects. We've heard you! Our kind moderator and helper Jake/ilikeshiny (who's working on his own game PogoChamp by the way) has rounded up 27gb of data and pinned it to our #data-analysis channel at the Slay the Spire Discord server.

Do you want to see which cards are chosen most often in Act 2?
Which cards are picked more often for experienced players non-experienced players?
What's the winrate for Ascension 20?

All of these answers and more can be found in this archive of 77 million DEATHS runs of Slay the Spire.

Community Fan Art


Deck the Spire by Amanda Klein


Ironclad in Demon Form by /u/polyamorous_axolotl


This cultist engraving by /u/wildgearsart

Patch Notes

Hotfix (11/30/2020)
Fixed crash when playing game in aspect ratios taller than 4:3 (such as 5:4 resolutions like 1280 x 1024).

Balance

• Accuracy card buffed. Damage increased from 3 -> 4.
  
• Accuracy+ card buffed. Damage increased from 5 -> 6.
  
• Aggregate card buffed. Energy gained every 6 -> 4 cards.
  
• Aggregate+ card buffed. Energy gained every 5 -> 3 cards.
  
• Blade Dance card buffed. 2 -> 3 shivs.
  
• Blade Dance+ card buffed. 3 -> 4 shivs.
  
• Bloodletting card buffed. Energy gain increased from 1 -> 2.
  
• Bloodletting+ card buffed. Energy gain increased from 2 -> 3.
  
• Dramatic Entrance card buffed. Damage increased from 6 -> 8.
  
• Dramatic Entrance+ card buffed. Damage increased from 8 -> 12.
  
• Eviscerate card buffed. Damage increased from 6 -> 7.
  
• Eviscerate+ card buffed. Damage increased from 8 -> 9.
  
• Good Instincts card buffed. Block increased from 5 -> 6.
  
• Good Instincts+ card buffed. Block increased from 8 -> 9.
  
• Hemokinesis card buffed. Damage increased from 14 -> 15.
  
• Hemokinesis card buffed. HP loss decreased from 3 -> 2.
  
• Hemokinesis+ card buffed. Damage increased from 18 -> 20.
  
• Phantasmal Killer card buffed. Cost reduced from 2 -> 1.
  
• Phantasmal Killer+ card buffed. Cost reduced from 1 -> 0.
  
• Reflex card buffed. Card draw increased from 1 -> 2.
  
• Reflex+ card buffed. Card draw increased from 2 -> 3.
  
• Reprogram card Focus loss decreased from 2 -> 1.
  
• Reprogram+ card changed. Focus loss, Strength, and Dexterity changed from 1 -> 2.
  
• Rupture+ card buffed. Strength gain increased from 1 -> 2.
  
• Rupture+ card nerfed. Energy cost 0 -> 1.
  
• Sadistic Nature card buffed. Damage increased from 3 -> 5.
  
• Sadistic Nature+ card buffed. Damage increased from 4 -> 7.
  
• Scrape card draws 3 -> 4 cards.
  
• Scrape+ card buffed. Damage increased from 9 -> 10.
  
• Scrape+ card draws 4 -> 5 cards.
  
• Slice card buffed. Damage increased from 5 -> 6.
  
• Slice+ card buffed. Damage increased from 8 -> 9.
  
• Sneaky Strike card buffed. Damage increased from 10 -> 12.
  
• Sneaky Strike+ card buffed. Damage increased from 14 -> 16.
  
• Storm of Steel card buffed. Cost lowered from 2 -> 1.
  
• Storm of Steel+ card buffed. Cost lowered from 2 -> 1.
  
• Swift Strike card buffed. Damage increased from 6 -> 7.
  
• Swift Strike+ card buffed. Damage increased from 9 -> 10.
  

• Bursts can now be Bursted properly.
  
• Fixed Dropkick card not glowing under some conditions.
  
• Fixed Foreign Influence card messing up card rewards by affecting the seed.
  
• Fixed Grand Finale card not glowing under some conditions.
  
• Fixed Heel Hook card not glowing under some conditions.
  
• Fixed issue where the line below scores were always rendered (instead of fading in).
  
• Fixed issue where Watcher couldn't receive Stuffed or Well Fed bonus scores.
  
• Fixed No Block power allowing players to gain Block with Dexterity.
  
• Fixed Sneaky Strike card not glowing under some conditions.
  
• Fixed Spirit Shield's Block value not changing under some conditions.
  
• Keys for the final act could be skipped if you proceed extremely fast.
  

• Increased line spacing in events when bigger text mode is on.
  
• Main menu panel buttons now have a wider space for bigger and localized text to fit.
  
• Adjusted various fonts to improve legibility.
  

• Merged and adjusted fonts to improve performance and memory usage.
  
• When closing a Single Card popup or Single Relic popup, the font texture is cleared to save memory.
  
• When closing the Leaderboard screen, the font texture is cleared to save memory.
  
• Some code cleanup/sharing for death and victory screens.
  

• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, JPN, POL, SPA, TUR, VIE.
  

Hello hello,

While we're still working with our porting team to improve the mobile UX and prep for Android release, we've also addressed some MacOS compatibility issues and received many updates to localization. It's incredible to see Slay the Spire become so widely available on so many platforms and in so many languages (19 total!).

MacOS Notarization and Mod Support
The game should no longer crash when playing on MacOS Catalina 10.15. The libgdx199 and libgdx199.main branch no longer has modding support.
For those wanting to run mods, please run the game on either the main branch or beta branch.

Community Fan Art
Crossover edition!


Slay the Spire x Animal Crossing by /u/loganlcs


Slay the Spire x Helltaker by Victorformat


Slay the Spire x Hades by lunchplus


Slay the Spire x Human Skin(??) by /u/SingleOrigin


Slay the Spire x Wall by /u/brunior

Twitch plays Slay the Spire

You can now play Slay the Spire via chat commands and voting (beta)!
https://www.twitch.tv/telnetthespire

Patch Notes

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where continuing a save at the event after the 3rd boss would resume the game timer if not going to the final act.
  
• Fixed bug where Controlled Chaos mod would give you Unknown cards.
  
• Fixed issue where Watcher data may not delete properly upon deleting a profile slot.
  
• Fixed letterboxing asset placed above Gremlin Wheel spin button at certain resolutions.
  
• Fixing highlight asset for View Upgrade button in card library when using controllers.
  
• If Bigger Text mode is on, the main tutorial's text raised so it's not hidden by the Next button in certain aspect ratios.
  

• Adding support for ultra high resolutions for various aspect ratios. NOTE: Font textures scale to resolution, increasing memory use.
  
• Dropdowns in Run History screen are now left aligned so it works with Bigger Text mode better.
  
• Locked characters are now grayscale in custom mode screen.
  
• Re-adding longpress support for mouse and touchscreen modes (enabled in Settings), off by default.
  
• Seed shown in the Run History Screen is now anchored in a specific location.
  
• Shifted much of the Run History screen slightly right so it's more spacious for some languages.
  
• Updating credits screen timing as there's more credits.
  
• Updating Gremlin Wheel event so arrow is placed better based on aspect ratio.
  
• Updating rich presence string so that Ascension and Floor number can be seen.
  
• In touchscreen mode, certain strings now say tap instead of click.
  
• In touchscreen mode, main menu text buttons are now larger and spaced twice as far apart.
  
• In touchscreen mode, target-based cards are in targeting mode, they are now rendered larger and slightly higher.
  
• In touchscreen mode, when dragging cards- the cards are now offset from the touchpoint.
  

• Indonesian language support added.
  
• Increasing card width space for CJK languages in Bigger Text mode.
  
• Updates for DEU, DUT, EPO, FRA, IND, FRA, ITA, JPN, KOR, PTB, RUS, SPA, THA, TUR, UKR, VIE, ZHS, ZHT.
  

Hey everyone,

Weve got some great news to share. Were happy to announce that Slay the Spire will be in your pockets this month on iOS! When specifically? Well have that news very soon, but as a hint, you should try to tune in to the Guerrilla Collective show on June 6th.

What about Android?

The Android version is still in the works but were not quite ready to talk about release yet. As we know a large part of our community are excited to play Slay the Spire on mobile we took the decision to launch the iOS version first.

How much?

Slay on iOS will cost $9.99 at launch and is the complete, spire-climbing experience you have already enjoyed on PC (okay, no anime mods, you got us).

Screenshot Time!

Recently captured, hot off the iPhone.





Stay tuned for more updates @MegaCrit

Hey everyone,

We're adding a few tweaks and fixes to improve compatibility for certain resolutions, devices, and operating systems that have been trickling in while working with our porting teams.

MacOS Notarization and Mod Support
Mod support for MacOS will become incompatible starting v2.1 due to updated notarization requirements.
To play modded Slay the Spire, the game must be played on v2.0 branches. This can be accessed via Steam's branches.

Patch Notes

Compatibility

• More MacOS notarization-related updates so future builds will run on MacOS Catalina and beyond.
  

• Fixed bug where continuing a save at the event after the 3rd boss would resume the game timer if not going to the final act.
  
• Fixed bug where Controlled Chaos mod would give you Unknown cards.
  
• Fixed issue where Watcher data may not delete properly upon deleting a profile slot.
  
• Fixed letterboxing asset placed above Gremlin Wheel spin button at certain resolutions.
  
• Fixing highlight asset for View Upgrade button in card library when using controllers.
  
• If Bigger Text mode is on, the main tutorial's text raised so it's not hidden by the Next button in certain aspect ratios.
  

• Re-adding longpress support for mouse and touchscreen modes (enabled in Settings), off by default.
  
• Adding support for ultra high resolutions for various aspect ratios. NOTE: Font textures scale to resolution, increasing memory use.
  
• Dropdowns in Run History screen are now left aligned so it works with Bigger Text mode better.
  
• Locked characters are now grayscale in custom mode screen.
  
• Seed shown in the Run History Screen is now anchored in a specific location.
  
• Shifted much of the Run History screen slightly right so it's more spacious for some languages.
  
• Updating credits screen timing as there's more credits.
  
• Updating Gremlin Wheel event so arrow is placed better based on aspect ratio.
  
• Updating rich presence string so that Ascension and Floor number can be seen.
  
• While in touchscreen mode, certain strings now say tap instead of click.
  

• Fixing issue with Fairy Potion displaying incorrect value for VIE.
  
• Increasing card width space for CJK languages in Bigger Text mode.
  
• Updates for DEU, DUT, FRA, IND, ITA, JPN, KOR, RUS, SPA, TUR, VIE, ZHT.
  
• Updates for DEU, IND, ITA, JPN, RUS, SPA, THA, TUR, and VIE.
  
• Updating credits for SPA, TUR.
  

Hey everyone,

Turkish language support was added last hotfix but wasn't enabled in the Settings and caused some other issues. This is quite embarrassing, but now it's fixed. Hooray!

As always, feel free to contact us at support@megacrit.com if you run into issues or have suggestions.

Fixes and Changes

• Fixed Vietnamese displaying Ukrainian in the main branch.
  
• Fixed Turkish not showing up in main branch.
  
• Removing Upgraded tooltip from Cunning Potion as the Upgraded keyword isn't in the description.
  
• Adding updated logic so Fasting power's description works properly in various languages.
  
• Updated the main English font from Kreon v1 to Kreon v2.
  
• Updates for languages ITA, POL, PTB, TUR.
  

We've added a new branch, fixed some things, updated some translations, and more!

macOS Notarization
The mac version of Slay the Spire is now notarized so it won't expire on newer versions of macOS (Catalina) come February.

Libgdx199 Version for Main Branch

We added a separate branch "libgdx199.main". This is the updated engine version of Slay the Spire using the main branch save files. The other libgdx199 branch utilizes your beta save files. This version is incompatible with some older devices; this may be preferred for some users as it comes with a few features, fixes, and performance improvements:

• Mapping support for much more controllers. Such as the Steam controller.
  
• Improved display resolution recognition, preventing an annoying screen offset bug.
  
• Screenshake support for non 16:9 resolutions.
  
• Multi-monitor support, pick which monitor you want Slay the Spire to use from the Settings.
  

• Amethyst achievement now unlocks if you achieved Amethyst+ via opening Stats screen.
  
• If Amethyst+ achievement is unlocked, Amethyst is now also unlocked simultaneously.
  
• Weave card is now locked for the Watcher as the second set of unlocks contained a deprecated card. If this was unlocked previously, it will unlock when starting the game. Nope, apparently it's already Foreign Influence.
  

• Fixing total unlock count for cards and relics on the stats screen (didn't account for Watcher).
  

• Adding back old ExhaustAction constructors (backwards mod compatibility).
  
• Adding getColor() helper method for CardHelper.
  

• Brazilian Portuguese is now available in main branch.
  
• Turkish is now available in main branch.
  
• Updates for Thai, translating the Strike and Defend cards for Watcher.
  
• Updates for Russian.
  

Hey everyone,

Patch 2.0 is finally here, hooray! This patch brings new cards, relics, potions, balance changes, reworks, bug fixes, performance improvements, and a 4th character.
The previous version of the game can still be played by selecting "v1.1 - 2019-17-07" found in the BETAS tab within Steam.

The 4th Character
The Watcher has arrived to evaluate the Spire. She brings her training in the divine stances and a seeing staff to cast judgment upon the wicked Spire spawn.

Like the other characters, the Watcher comes with her own set of cards and a handful of unique relics.

A huge thanks to all the players who helped test the 4th character on the beta branch. All of your feedback, data, and reading various discussions really helped us test out new ideas and tweak the character rapidly!

Potion Lab

We added many potions this time around so we also created a screen that allows you to view all the potions!
This can be found in the Compendium section of the main menu as the Potion Lab.
You can even look up the rarities of all the new and existing potions.

Modding
This patch brings many changes to the main game along with some improvements for modding support. Mods compatible with V1.1 will likely need to be updated to continue working for V2.0. Update those mods!

If you need assistance with updating or want to get into modding yourself, come visit the #modding channel at the Slay the Spire Discord Server!

Community Fan Art
Art is all around us. But there's also some fan art here, too!


This reimagining of the Defect by Alexander Coadou


The Silent by

Patch Notes

Content
In addition to a new character, many new relics and potions were added as well.

• Lots of Watcher cards.
  
• Watcher only, Starter Relic: Pure Water
  
• Watcher only, Common Relic: Damaru
  
• Watcher only, Uncommon Relic: Duality
  
• Watcher only, Uncommon Relic: Teardrop Locket
  
• Watcher only, Rare Relic: Cloak Clasp
  
• Watcher only, Rare: Relic Golden Eye
  
• Watcher only, Boss Relic: Holy Water
  
• Watcher only, Boss Relic: Violet Lotus
  
• Watcher only, Shop Relic: Melange
  
• Common Relic: Akabeko
  
• Common Relic: Ceramic Fish
  
• Uncommon Relic: Horn Cleat
  
• Uncommon Relic: Ink Bottle
  
• Uncommon Relic: Strike Dummy
  
• Rare Relic: Tungsten Rod
  
• Rare Relic: Captain's Wheel
  
• Boss Relic: Sacred Bark
  
• Boss Relic: Slaver's Collar
  
• Ironclad only, Uncommon Potion: Elixir
  
• Ironclad only, Rare Potion: Heart of Iron
  
• Silent only, Uncommon Potion: Cunning Potion
  
• Defect only, Uncommon Potion: Potion of Capacity
  
• Defect only, Rare Potion: Essence of Darkness
  
• Watcher only, Common Potion: Bottled Miracle
  
• Watcher only, Uncommon Potion: Stance Potion
  
• Watcher only, Rare Potion: Ambrosia
  
• Common Potion: Blessing of the Forge
  
• Common Potion: Colorless Potion
  
• Uncommon Potion: Distilled Chaos
  
• Uncommon Potion: Duplication Potion
  
• Uncommon Potion: Liquid Memories
  
• Rare Potion: Cultist Potion
  
• Watcher completion achievements: Amethyst and Amethyst+
  

• Calling Bell relic reworked.
  
• Hovering Kite relic reworked.
  
• Tiny Chest relic reworked.
  
• Shop rarity relics base price reduced from 200 -> 150.
  
• Black Blood relic buffed. Heal incrased from 10 -> 12.
  
• Eternal Feather relic rarity changed from Boss -> Uncommon.
  
• Lizard Tail relic rarity changed from Boss -> Rare.
  
• Meal Ticket relic rarity changed from Shop -> Common.
  
• Orrery relic rarity changed from Boss -> Shop.
  
• Toolbox relic buffed. Choose 1 of 3 Colorless cards instead of obtaining a random one.
  
• Toy Ornithopter relic rarity changed from Shop -> Common.
  
• White Beast Statue relic rarity changed from Boss -> Uncommon.
  
• Wrist Blade relic buffed. Additional damage increased from 3 -> 4.
  
• Fire Breathing card reworked.
  
• Reprogram card reworked.
  
• Sever Soul+ card buffed. Damage increased from 20 -> 22.
  
• Well-Laid Plans card cost increased from 0 -> 1.
  
• Powers that gain Block at end of turn activate before cards like Burn play themselves.
  
• Common potion droprate decreased from 70% -> 65%.
  
• Rare potion droprate increased from 5% -> 10%.
  
• Snecko Oil reworked.
  
• Blood Potion healing buffed from 10% -> 20%.
  
• Blood Potion rarity changed f rom Uncommon -> Common.
  
• Fairy in the Bottle healing buffed from 10% -> 30% HP.
  
• Focus Potion rarity changed from Uncommon -> Common.
  
• Ghost in a Jar rarity changed from Uncommon -> Rare.
  
• Poison Potion is now Silent only.
  
• Face Trader event can no longer appear past Act 2.
  
• Neow Colorless card choices now let the player choose 1 of 3 colorless cards.
  
• Plated Armor power now caps at 999.
  
• Mods for Custom Mode have been updated to account for the Watcher.
  
• Eternal One achievement now require Amethyst & Amethyst+ achievements.
  

• 4:3 aspect ratio support has been added.
  
• Adding SFX for Spit Web attack by Louse enemy.
  
• Bigger Text mode is now available in the Settings. This increases the font size slightly everywhere.
  
• Card preview tips now allow you to see cards such as Dazed when viewing Reckless Charge.
  
• Cards/powers/potions that generate Upgraded Cards now just describe them with a + in their name.
  
• Champ boss now recognizes if you have his belt.
  
• Fatal keyword added for cards which have effects upon killing a non-Minion enemy.
  
• Increased font size of tip text when unlocking cards/relics.
  
• Increased scroll speed by 3x when using mousewheel to scroll for Input Settings screen.
  
• Peek button has been added, allowing you to peek at the combat while a selection screen is up.
  
• Pressing 0 - 9 keys in some relic view screens now play some SFX.
  
• Pressing ESC no longer exits the card reward screen from another menu.
  
• Relics whose effects only trigger once per combat or run now gray out when inactive.
  
• Repositioned the 'Restart game for changes' text when changing various options in Settings screen.
  
• Scrollable dropdowns such as Run History can now be scrolled using scrollwheel and arrow keys.
  
• Several potions now have updated potion bottle assets.
  
• Some potions are rainbow colored now. It's groovy.
  
• Uncommon potions now have small circle particle effects.
  
• Rare potions now have gold sparkly visual effects.
  
• Several power icons have been cleaned up.
  
• Several relic assets have been cleaned up and have high resolution versions when viewing them.
  
• Speed of several cards/relics have been increased and normalized across similar items.
  
• Various cards with special requirements now emit a gold glow (like Dropkick).
  
• When hovering Map Legend icons, tips now appear in a fixed position, no longer obscuring the map.
  
• Wording updated for several relics, cards, potions, and powers to improve clarity.
  

• Custom Mode now unlocks even if you play a Daily Climb offline now.
  
• Dropkick card now resolves its actions in order of its description.
  
• Egg relics now update card rewards in reward screens upon pickup.
  
• Egg relics update card previews on Pandora's Box confirmation screen.
  
• Entropic Brew can now be used outside of combat.
  
• Fixed Armaments card not updating descriptions of upgraded cards.
  
• Fixed bug where after defeating certain enemies, Block would not work against thorn-like powers.
  
• Fixed Card Library scrolling up slightly when opened initially.
  
• Fixed cards sometimes glowing even when they cannot be played.
  
• Fixed Confirm/Cancel buttons requiring two taps in touchscreen mode for Rename Panel.
  
• Fixed Discovery card showing skip button when reopening screen from another menu.
  
• Fixed double-played Sunder gaining energy twice on Darklings and Awakened One.
  
• Fixed egg relics not upgrading card received from A Note To Yourself.
  
• Fixed elites slain scores not showing up properly in Endless mode.
  
• Fixed Entropic Brew filling potions slots with Sozu.
  
• Fixed ESC buttons causing unusual behavior on card reward screens (blank maps, hiding the reward screen).
  
• Fixed Escape Plan gaining Block when card drawn is blocked by No Draw power.
  
• Fixed Fear No Evil + Mental Fortress not gaining Block before Beat of Death.
  
• Fixed Juggernaut damage not changing targets if original target is dead.
  
• Fixed Mayhem, Havoc, Distilled Chaos, and Omniscience sometimes not playing cards if original target is dead.
  
• Fixed memory leak when initializing Merchant assets.
  
• Fixed memory leaks when initializing blights for Endless mode.
  
• Fixed on-enter-room relics activating again when loading a game to a post-combat rewards screen.
  
• Fixed Pocketwatch relic activating too early for effects like Foresight.
  
• Fixed Rebound card not working with Strange Spoon relic.
  
• Fixed Tingsha relic damage not changing targets if original target is dead.
  
• Heel Hook card now resolves its actions in order of its description.
  
• Slime and Heart enemy SFX no longer play when game is backgrounded.
  
• Stasis move from Bronze Automaton's Orbs is now seeded.
  
• Transmorgrifier event's options are now seeded.
  
• The Designer event's options are now seeded.
  

• Fixed card descriptions being initialized twice. Improving game start up time.
  
• Deleted several unused font files, reducing memory usage and start up time.
  
• Relics which gray out are now grayed out using a shader, rather than a grayscale image.
  

• Slay the Spire is now available in Vietnamese!
  
• Several strings such as time/date formatting is now localized.
  
• Added various logic to improve card descriptions for CJK languages.
  
• Patch V2.0 has been translated into the following languages!
  
• Dutch
  
• Esperanto
  
• French
  
• German
  
• Italian
  
• Japanese
  
• Korean
  
• Polish
  
• Russian
  
• Chinese (Simplified)
  
• Chinese (Traditional)
  
• Spanish
  
• Thai
  
• Ukrainian
  
• Vietnamese
  

Happy New Year!

We hope you had a pleasant holiday season, after a nice break- we're gearing up to release our 4th character.

January 14th
Is when the 4th character will be in the main branch for PC/Steam!
Ported versions of this content will take a little longer as we merge the content in and have it fully tested.

Community Fan Art

This adorable X-mas card from /u/gazingforth. Also check out more of the calendar here


The Watcher by /u/slasher_lash


This impressive painting of Apotheosis by /u/Yainegva

Patch Notes

UI and Effects

• Speed of various card manipulating actions are now the same and are affected by fast mode (if not before).
  
• Adding a light bulb VFX whenever you play an Insight card.
  

• Title casing fix for Flurry of Blows.
  

• Returning functionality of any number select for grid select screens (auto-confirms when count is reached).
  
• Heartbreaker score bonus no longer appears/calculates for modded Act 4s.
  

• Updates for EPO, ITA, JPN, POL, SPA, UKR, VIE, ZHS.
  
• Updating UKR credits.
  

Happy holidays!

Things are merry and rainy over in Seattle and we're just moving forward with bug fixes and visual flourishes in preparation to release the fourth character.

Steam Awards!


We've been nominated alongside other great games for Most Innovative Gameplay this year!
If you agree, give us a vote and also be sure to vote in all the other categories, too!

Holiday Break
We're going to take a short break- and you should, too!
The next report will be January 3rd, 2020.

More Official Merch


We teamed up with the fine folks at The Yetee and we've got some Slay the Spire shirts and pins up for pre-order!

Community Fan Art
Speaking of excellent community fan art, have you checked out the Slay the Spire subreddit? There's always an influx of art, videos, and Top Quality Memes.


The Silent by /u/Eduriane


These pixel art slayers by /u/flameblast12

Gameplay

• Eternal One achievement now requires Amethyst & Amethyst+ achievements.
  

• Adding VFX for Watcher Empty cards if the effects trigger.
  
• Adding VFX to Wreathe of Flame card.
  
• Flame Barrier card resolves 0.4s faster in fast mode.
  
• If Follow-Up card effect triggers, there's an additional blue glow VFX + SFX.
  
• When Sanctity card triggers a yellow border effect also appears.
  
• Thanks to BDWSSBB for the following:
  
• Egg relics now update card rewards in reward screens upon pickup.
  
• Egg relics update card previews on Pandora's Box confirmation screen.
  
• Sneaky Strike glows yellow when the player has discarded a card this turn.
  

• SFX will play if the game is backgrounded now (if the option is on of course).
  
• Slime and Heart enemy SFX no longer play when game is backgrounded.
  
• Thanks to BDWSSBB for the following:
  
• Fixed double-played Sunder gaining energy twice on Darklings and Awakened One.
  
• Fixed egg relics not upgrading card received from A Note To Yourself.
  
• Fixed Establishment card not reducing cost of cards that cost 0 for turn.
  
• Fixed Establishment not working with Well-Laid Plans and Equilibrium.
  
• Fixed Eviscerate card having the wrong cost when drawn during enemy turn.
  
• Fixed Eviscerate card not setting its cost when generated in combat.
  
• Fixed Omega power vfx appearing on dead enemies.
  
• Fixed Rebound card not working with Strange Spoon relic.
  
• Stasis move from Bronze Automaton's Orbs is now seeded.
  

• Updates for ITA.
  

Greetings,

This week we now have all the card assets for the Watcher in the game!
A surprise trip to The Game Awards, ongoing sickness, and the general holidays has made it a slower week.

Console Patches

Good news however for our console friends, a patch for Switch, PS4, and Xbox should be out now or in the VERY near future, bringing the game version up to V1.1 + some console specific fixes and some features that are a part of the beta! This includes, Bigger text mode, an improved Game Settings screen, and Long Press options for the End Turn button.

For the rest of the patch notes for the V1.1 patch, please see our previous announcement here.

Community Fan Art


This showdown of the Defect against the Awakened One by "A Plant"


Shrug It Off by u/DaNaDaN5


A Cultist on a skateboard!!! Also, Hyper Light Drifter (left)!! by u/Lordoficewrack

Patch Notes

UI and Effects

• Added new Watcher cutscene assets upon completing Act 4.
  
• Adding a portrait for Study card.
  
• Updating Slaver Collar asset + adding an info file to explain how outlines are created.
  
• Updating SFX used during Watcher Act 4 victory scene.
  

• Fixed elites slain scores not showing up properly in Endless mode.
  
• Fixed Watcher victory screen VFX blinking fps dependent.
  

• Updates for DEU.
  

Hey everyone,

We hope everyone's having a good holiday season so far. While still jet lagged and recovering from sickness, we're getting back to work.

The Watcher is nearly complete. Just a few more finishing touches before it's ready for the main branch!

Status Update on Slay the Spire Mobile
I know you are all very excited about the upcoming mobile version of Slay the Spire. We are too! We've hit a playable version of the game and it's looking great, you'll be able to play the full Slay the Spire experience on your phone very soon. But, we need to do another QA pass this month to ensure things are clean for the mobile launch.

The good news is that thanks to the console ports we completed earlier this year all the difficult engine work is already implemented, so don't expect the unpredictable delays we had earlier this year. We had hoped to get mobile out by the end of the year but development with a custom engine can be a tricky thing. We are close, and will have another status update for you in early 2020.

The Watcher Translations
Watcher content has been translated by the community into the following languages:

• German
  
• Dutch
  
• Esperanto
  
• French
  
• Italian
  
• Korean
  
• Polish
  
• Russian
  
• Spanish
  
• Thai
  
• Vietnamese
  
• Simplified Chinese
  
• Traditional Chinese
  

• Greek
  
• Indonesian
  
• Japanese
  
• Norwegian
  
• Portuguese Brazilian
  
• Serbian (Cyrillic)
  
• Serbian (Latin)
  
• Turkish
  
• Ukrainian
  

• Updating asset for Duality relic to match flavor better.
  
• Updating Violet Lotus relic asset to be polished.
  
• Adding a VFX for attacking the Heart when playing the Watcher.
  
• Adding a VFX for Carnage card.
  
• Adding a VFX for Omega power when it deals damage.
  
• Adding SFX for Spit Web attack by Louse enemy.
  
• Adding VFX for Devotion card.
  
• Adding VFX for Flying Sleeves card.
  
• Adding VFX for Through Violence card.
  
• Cloak Clasp relic asset updated.
  
• Creating a VFX for the Watcher's heart victory screen.
  
• Duality relic asset adjustments.
  
• Gremlin Horn relic now has polished art asset.
  
• Mushroom relic asset enlarged + polished.
  
• Oddly Smooth Stone relic gets updated to be smoother + high-res version when clicked.
  
• Updating assets for Golden Eye relic.
  
• Thanks to BDWSSBB for the following:
  
• Barrage card resolves 0.25s faster.
  
• Bite card VFX resolves 0.2s faster in fast mode.
  
• Charon's Ashes resolves 0.15s faster per hit in fast mode.
  
• Claw card resolves 0.25s faster.
  
• Feel No Pain power resolves 0.15s faster per exhaust in fast mode.
  
• Fiend Fire card resolves 0.25s faster and 0.15s faster per card exhausted in fast mode.
  
• Fission card resolves 0.25s faster.
  
• Healing resolves 0.25s faster in fast mode. Blood Vial resolves 0.5s faster.
  
• Looter death speech bubble before combat end resolves 1.5s faster in fast mode.
  
• Recursion card resolves 0.15s faster in fast mode.
  
• Sneaky Strike card resolves 0.25s faster.
  
• Talk to the Hand power resolves 0.15s faster per hit in fast mode.
  

• Powers that gain Block at end of turn activate before cards like Burn play themselves.
  

• Fixed Flurry of Blows card typo.
  
• Fixed Unknown keyword being misspelled in French.
  
• Removing 3 unused sound assets.
  
• Thanks to BDWSSBB for the following:
  
• Adding hand update after card and potion use to fix general card information and glow issues.
  
• Fixed Confusion card not affecting cards reduced by Setup or Forethought.
  
• Fixed Judgement card not bypassing Intangible and Invincible powers.
  
• Fixed Necronomicon not activating on cost-X cards when played from effects (e.g. Mayhem).
  
• Fixed Tantrum card not exhausting when played by Omniscience.
  

• Updates for DEU, DUT, FRA, ITA, SPA, ZHS, ZHT.
  

• Putting back old constructor of GainBlockAction.
  
• Ascension level increments even if you lose on Act 4+ instead of specifically Act 4 as mods may allow higher Acts.
  

Hello!

We've been working on polish this week. Many bugs were fixed while several cards got some visual effects! We also added controller support for some of the features brought in during this beta test.

Excursions, Vacations
The team will be out of town next week and Casey will be on vacation (that's me) so there won't be a progress report until December 6th while there may still be some updates to the beta branch.

Community Fan Art

This incredible fan redesign by Alexandre Coadou


This great rendition of The Silent by The Halret


The Defect by /u/AzoryKeron

Patch Notes

UI and Effects

• Adding polished card portrait for Blasphemy.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Deceive Reality.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Deus Ex Machina.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Establishment.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Fear No Evil.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Foreign Influence.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Indignation.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Perseverance.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Pressure Points.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Protect.
  
• Adding polished card portrait for Rushdown.
  
• Cleaning up icon for Heatsinks power.
  
• Updating beta art for Omniscience card.
  
• Updating icon for Master Reality power.
  
• Updating icon for Mental Fortress power.
  
• Adding VFX for Vault card.
  
• Adding VFX for Fasting card.
  
• Adding VFX for Foresight card.
  
• Adding VFX for Pressure Points card.
  
• Adding VFX for Ragnarok card.
  
• Adding VFX for Sanctity card.
  
• Adding VFX for Third Eye card.
  
• Adding VFX for Wallop card.
  
• Pressing 0 - 9 keys in some relic view screens can now play some SFX.
  
• Bag of Marbles relic no longer grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Bag of Preparation relic no longer grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Become Almighty and Live Forever cards get updated VFX.
  
• Blood Vial relic no longer grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Bowling Bash now plays a special sound if 3 or more enemies are present.
  
• Damaru relic now has a special SFX when opening up the relic popup.
  
• Disabling scrollbar for Potion Lab screen as no scrolling is required.
  
• Lantern relic no longer grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Mutagenic Strength relic no longer grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Ninja Scroll relic no longer grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Nuclear Battery relic no longer grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Red Mask relic no longer grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Thanks to BDWSSBB for the following:
  
• After Image card's Block gain effect resolves 0.15s faster in fast mode.
  
• Catalyst card resolves 0.25s faster.
  
• Heel Hook card resolves 0.25s faster.
  
• Powers reducing themselves resolve 0.15s faster in fast mode.
  
• Storm of Steel card resolves 0.25s faster.
  

• Fixed controller support for Potion Lab screen.
  
• Utilizing 4:3 offset y in scene render.
  
• Thanks to BDWSSBB for the following:
  
• Fixed Escape Plan gaining Block when card drawn is blocked by No Draw.
  
• Dropkick card now resolves its actions in order of its description.
  
• Fixed cards sometimes glowing even when they cannot be played.
  
• Fixed Entropic Brew filling potions slots with Sozu.
  
• Fixed exiting Divinity from last turn if Damaru makes the player enter Divinity again.
  
• Fixed Fear No Evil + Mental Fortress not gaining Block before Beat of Death.
  
• Fixed Ink Bottle drawing a card when activated by playing Battle Trance or Bullet Time.
  
• Fixed Juggernaut damage not changing targets if original target is dead.
  
• Fixed Mayhem, Havoc, Distilled Chaos, and Omniscience sometimes not playing cards if original target is dead.
  
• Fixed on-enter-room relics activating again when loading post-combat.
  
• Fixed Wave of the Hand removing itself too early for effects like Like Water and Plated Armor.
  
• Heel Hook card now resolves its actions in order of its description.
  
• Transmorgrifier and The Designer transform options are now seeded.
  

• Fixing purple text not working for some languages.
  
• Updates for DEU, DUT, EPO, ITA, JPN, KOR, SPA, VIE.
  

Hey everyone,

It's November! I hope that everyone is enjoying some nice fall weather! At least, it's my favorite time of year here in Seattle.

In this week's patch, our focus has been on incorporating fit and finish by adding missing flavor text and incorporating more assets. We'll continue adding more art and effects next week as well.

We also received a bunch of bug fixes from a fellow modder! See below in the Bug Fixes section for more info.

4:3 Aspect Ratio

We're experimenting with a 4:3 aspect ratio mode which enables the following resolutions:
1024x768, 1280x960, 1400x1050, 1440x1080, 1600x1200, 2048x1536, 2224x1668, 2732x2048

More Merch!


We've got some new pins over at Fangamer! Get some before they run out and pin them on to stuff!


Community Fan Art Halloween
We saw a bunch of great Slay the Spire costumes for Halloween this year! Slay the Spire players are good people.

Someone setup shop during Halloween! by


Slime Boss Jack-o-Lantern by /u/leviathanfelix


This Silent cosplay (and costume!?) by /u/Kallado

Patch Notes

Content

• Brilliance card reworked.
  

• Cloak Clasp is now Watcher only.
  
• The new Fatal keyword applied to Ritual Dagger, Lesson Learned, Hand of Greed, and Feed means that the effect of these cards now trigger upon killing non-Minion enemies.
  

• An experimental 4:3 aspect ratio is now available. Just set the resolution to utilize.
  
• Adding asset for Damaru relic.
  
• Adding beta art for Live Forever and Pressure Points cards.
  
• Adding about 20 polished card portraits.
  
• Adding flavor text for Damaru relic.
  
• Adding flavor text for Golden Eye relic.
  
• Adding flavor text for Holy Water relic.
  
• Increased font size of tips when unlocking cards/relics.
  
• Moved the 'Restart game for changes' text reminder as tabs for settings screens are taller.
  
• Mutagenic Strength relic now grays out after it's used in combat.
  
• New Fatal keyword used by Feed, Lesson Learned, Hand of Greed, and Ritual Dagger.
  
• Singing Bowl's button changed from Y to RB, allows players to inspect cards and Skip card.
  
• Unlock tip text is now larger for relic unlock screens.
  
• Yang relic renamed to Duality.
  

• Battle Hymn typos fixed.
  
• Fixed Bigger Text option not being available mid-run.
  
• Fixing up Live Forever and Like Water card portraits not showing up.
  
• Plated Armor text on Live Forever is now gold color.
  
• Updated map assets to work with all aspect ratios better.
  
• Thanks to BDWSSBB for the following:
  
• Fixed Discovery showing skip button when reopening screen from another menu.
  
• Pressing escape no longer exits the card reward screen from another menu.
  
• Fixed Stance Potion and Wish sometimes not showing the Peek button.
  
• Fixed stance SFX lingering on death and returning to main menu.
  
• Fixed infinite energy exploit with Slaver's Collar and save and load post-combat.
  
• Slaver's Collar now works in event-based Elite and Boss combats.
  
• Fixed Armaments and Blessing of the Forge not updating descriptions of upgraded cards.
  
• Fixed Pocketwatch activating too early for effects like Foresight.
  
• Fixed Tingsha relic damage not changing targets if original target is dead.
  
• Tingsha relic now resolves 0.1s faster per hit.
  

• Updates for DEU, DUT, ITA, KOR, POL, RUS, THA, VIE, ZHS, ZHT.
  

Greetings!

It's progress report time. This week we added some more potions, made Watcher balance changes, and revisited some non-Watcher content such as cards, relics, and events.


Because of the addition of new potions we've made some new potion bottle shapes and colors so they can be more easily differentiated.


We're also testing out an accessibility feature that increases the size of text by 20%. This may be updated to affect specific UI such as tips and card descriptions. While the larger text won't always fit in the UI, we think the trade-off for legibility will more than make up for it. This option can be toggled on in the Miscellaneous section in the Game Settings.

We would also like to thank our community members BDWSSBB and JohnnyDevo for improving modding support and fixing a plethora of bugs (most of them in the Bug Fixes section)!
If any or all of the bug fixes bring you joy, maybe visit our Discord channel and give them a thank you.

Community Fan Art
It's so interesting to see Slay the Spire characters drawn in other art styles or interpreted in a different light! Always happy to post these :). If you want any fan art to be featured here, just ping us @MegaCrit!


The original trio by /u/princeshoutoku


The Fat Gremlin by /u/charleseasleyart


Hexaghost by /u/AzoryKeron

Patch Notes

Content

• New common Watcher relic - Damaru.
  
• New common potion - Blessing of the Forge.
  
• New common potion - Colorless Potion.
  
• Tiny Chest relic has been reworked.
  
• Reprogram card has been reworked.
  

• Chimera mod now accounts for the Watcher.
  
• Evaluate card rarity changed from Uncommon -> Common.
  
• Foresight+ card changed from gaining Innate to upgrading Scry amount from 3 -> 4.
  
• Mental Fortress card block increased from 3 -> 4.
  
• Mental Fortress+ card block increased from 4 -> 6.
  
• My True Form mod now accounts for the Watcher.
  
• Nirvana card block lowered from 4 -> 3.
  
• Nirvana+ card block lowered from 6 -> 4.
  
• Sanctity card rarity changed from Common -> Uncommon.
  
• Scrawl card cost lowered from 2 -> 1.
  
• Scrawl card rarity changed from Uncommon -> Rare.
  
• Scrawl+ card cost lowered from 1 -> 0.
  
• Spirit Shield and Spirit Shield+ now gain 1 more Block per card.
  
• Spirit Shield card rarity changed from Uncommon -> Rare.
  
• Wish's Live Forever option now gives Plated Armor (instead of Plated Armor each turn).
  

• Corruption card rarity changed from Uncommon -> Rare.
  
• Dark Embrace card rarity changed from Rare -> Uncommon.
  
• Dodecahedron relic deprecated.
  
• Eviscerate card cost lowered from 4 -> 3.
  
• Knowing Skull event HP costs increase as the same option is continuously chosen. Additionally, the starting HP cost is now 6.
  
• Mind Bloom event now gives less gold 100 -> 50 when fighting the boss and 25 gold above Ascension 13+.
  
• Nunchaku relic is now Common.
  
• Well Laid Plans card cost increased from 0 -> 1
  

• Testing out Bigger Text. Can be toggled on/off in Game Settings.
  
• Adding VFX for Miracle card.
  
• Adding beta art for 3 cards.
  
• Ambrosia is now eye-shaped.
  
• Cultist potion is now moon-shaped.
  
• Cunning potion is now spiky-shaped and gray.
  
• Distilled Chaos is now rainbow color.
  
• Duplication potion is now rainbow color.
  
• Entroic Brew is now flask-shaped and rainbow color.
  
• Essence of Darkness is now moon-shaped.
  
• Essence of Steel is now anvil-shaped and teal color.
  
• Liquid Bronze is now spiky-shaped.
  
• Liquid Memories is now eye-shaped.
  
• Poison potion is now flask-shaped.
  
• Path to Victory card renamed to Pressure Points.
  
• Damage value for Fire Breathing power's description is now blue.
  
• Horn Cleat and Captain's Wheel relics now display turn numbers until triggered.
  
• Meat on the Bone now pulses when it will trigger at the end of combat.
  
• Red Mask relic now grays out when its effect is triggered.
  

• Bouncing Flask's effects now happen in order.
  
• Expunger card description now correctly works when upgraded.
  
• Fixed Bouncing Flasks's VFX location starting at the wrong place.
  
• Fixed Burns and related cards changing last card played for Crush Joints and similar cards.
  
• Fixed card tips not showing up correctly when the left card is hovered during card upgrade.
  
• Fixed Liquid Memories not updating damage and block values on card descriptions.
  
• Fixed Mayhem and Distilled Chaos making certain cards disappear if end turn effects are called.
  
• Fixed Storm of Steel prompting to discard cards after Ink Bottle draws a card.
  
• Fixed Tungsten Rod relic not affecting Shelled Parasite's lifesteal heal amount.
  
• Fixed Velvet Choker not interacting correctly with Curses.
  
• Go For the Eyes and Spot Weakness cards no longer have a gold border on the first turn of combat.
  
• Fixed bug where Horn Clear relic would trigger at the start of the second Colosseum fight.
  
• Picking up Sacred Bark relic now updates Power/Skill potion descriptions properly.
  
• Removing Pressure Points beta art as it was for Path To Victory.
  
• Toolbox relic's card selection is now seeded.
  

• Updates for DEU, DUT, EPO, ITA, JPN, KOR, RUS, THA, VIE, ZHS, ZHT.
  

• Overload damage calculation methods to pass instance of AbstractCard.
  
• In-combat card selection screens now use a generalized method (Codex, Discovery, Attack Potion, etc)
  

Hello hello,

It's another Friday and another progress report!
We made a few potions and increased the rare potion drop rate, cleaned up some UI elements, improved performance, and balanced several cards. Lots of stuff in lots of categories.

We'll be looking at adjusting some non-Watcher stuff next week, stay tuned!

Call for Translators
Slay the Spire is available in several languages due to community translations. Helping out is easy, just come say in our localization channels in the Slay the Spire Discord server.
Our official Discord is also the best place to interact with us directly, file bug reports, and help suggest improvements to the game!

Community Fan Art
I should have participated in Inktober, gotta up my art game to match these talented folks.


Scry... by @Densetsu_VII


Slime Boss by @AzoryKeron


Teamwork Makes the Dream Work by @VictorTatkowski

Patch Notes

Content

• New Rare Potion - Cultist Potion.
  
• New Uncommon Potion - Distilled Chaos.
  
• New Uncommon Potion - Liquid Memories.
  

• Common potion drop rate decreased from 70% -> 65%.
  
• Rare potion drop rate increased from 5% -> 10%.
  
• Beta+ card now costs 1 and generates Omega (not Omega+)
  
• Blasphemy+ card now gives Retain on upgrade, cost remains at 1.
  
• Carve Reality card damage buffed from 5 -> 6.
  
• Carve Reality+ card damage buffed from 9 -> 10.
  
• Conjure Blade+ and Expunger+ get slight rework.
  
• Empty Fist card damage buffed from 8 -> 9.
  
• Empty Fist+ card damage buffed from 12 -> 14.
  
• Evaluate+ card block buffed from 9 -> 10.
  
• Like Water card nerfed Block 7 -> 5.
  
• Like Water+ card nerfed Block 9 -> 7.
  
• Reach Heaven card damage buffed from 8 -> 10.
  
• Reach Heaven+ card damage buffed from 12 -> 15.
  
• Toolbox relic buffed. Choose 1 of 3 Colorless cards instead of obtaining a random one.
  

• Adding polished card portraits for 20 cards.
  
• Adding a new power icon for 7 powers.
  
• Adding pulsing and particle VFX for Peek button during peek.
  
• Fame and Fortune card gets a VFX.
  
• Champ boss now recognizes if you have his belt.
  
• Bag of Marbles relic now grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Bag of Preparation relic now grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Blood Vial relic now grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Centennial Puzzle relic now grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Fossilized Helix relic now grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Lantern relic now grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Ninja Scroll relic now grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Nuclear Battery relic now grays out when its effect is triggered.
  
• Anchor relic now grays out when its effect has triggered.
  
• Captain's Wheel relic now grays out when its effect has triggered.
  
• Horn Cleat relic now grays out when its effect has triggered.
  
• Stone Calendar relic now grays out when its effect has triggered.
  
• Adding controller support for Peek UX (Left Analog Stick down).
  
• Adding hotkey for Peeking (Spacebar) which can be reassigned in the Input Settings.
  
• Increased scroll speed by 3x when using mousewheel to scroll for Input Settings screen.
  
• Reckless Charge card now utilizes the card preview UX to show Dazed.
  
• Halt card wording improvements.
  
• Cleaned up spacing on Deva Form for improved legibility.
  

• Fix for Distilled Memories potion description typo.
  
• Fixed Confirm/Cancel buttons requiring two taps in touchscreen mode for Rename panel.
  
• Fixed Evaluate+ card giving Insight+ when it shouldn't be.
  
• Fixed rare instances of Wrist Blade affecting cost X cards.
  
• Fixed Reach Heaven+ incorrectly upgrading Through Violence.
  
• Fixed Swivel and cost 2+ attacks triggering Necronomicon.
  
• Fixed Swivel and freeToPlayOnce cards bypassing effects like Velvet Choker and Entangled.
  
• Fixed Swivel spending energy with cost X attacks.
  
• Fixing Reach Heaven card portraits not fitting in card templates correctly.
  
• Inner Peace card is no longer incorrectly capable of drawing itself.
  
• Nilry's Codex now correctly works with Master Reality.
  
• When using Wish card, cards shown in the Choose One screen are now marked as seen (for Card Library).
  

• Rendering grayscaled relic assets using a shader now. Deleted grayscale assets.
  
• Rendering grayscaled rest site assets using a shader now. Deleted grayscale assets.
  

• Localizability added for Statistics screen's fastest and total playtimes.
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, ITA, JPN, KOR, POL, RUS, SPA, THA, VIE, ZHS, ZHT.
  

Hey everyone!

This week we worked on some non-beta stuff but still made some card changes and also a peek button has been added so players can make more informed choices while utilizing Scry, Skill potions, or any other card selection screen during combat.

Peek Button

This handy GIF should show off how it works! Improved visuals, bug fixes, and controller/hotkey support are still coming.

VOTE
If you haven't voted for us in the Golden Joystick Awards, do so now!

But on a serious note, recognition for working on games and exposure through these events can really help out game developers so vote for your favorite games in all the categories!


We'll nerf your favorite card if you don't vote.

Community Fan Art
All this Watcher art is sooooo great :D.


Deva Form by /u/AzulCrescent


The whole cast by /u/MochaSNotsosweet


The Watcher by @Victor_Sama

Patch Notes

Content

• Adding Like Water card.
  
• Adding Study card.
  

• Discipline card is deprecated.
  
• Flow State card is deprecated.
  
• Reworked Path to Victory card.
  
• Foreign Influence card upgrade changed.
  
• Beta card gets buffed. Now shuffles Omega into the draw pile, rather than bottom of draw pile.
  
• Brilliance+ card buffed 4 -> 5.
  
• Carve Reality card damage buffed 4 -> 5.
  
• Carve Reality+ card damage buffed 7 -> 9.
  
• Flurry of Blows and Weave cards have their rarity swapped.
  
• Follow Up+ damage increased by 1.
  
• Master Reality card cost lowered from 3 -> 1.
  
• Master Reality+ card cost lowered from 2 -> 0.
  
• Prostrate card gets buffed 1 -> 2 Mantra.
  
• Prostrate+ gets buffed 2 -> 3 Mantra.
  
• Safety+ card block buffed from 15 -> 16.
  
• Scrawl card cost nerfed from 1 -> 2.
  
• Scrawl+ card cost nerfed from 0 -> 1.
  
• Smite+ card damage buffed from 15 -> 16.
  
• Through Violence+ card damage buffed from 25 -> 30.
  
• Wish card gets nerfed. Cost 2 -> 3.
  
• Akabeko relic nerfed 9 -> 8.
  
• Ceramic Fish relic gets a buff 7 -> 9 gold.
  
• Ink Bottle relic is now Uncommon (was Common).
  

• Peek feature. Should work for several selection-based screens during combat
  
• Akabeko relic assets updated.
  
• Ceramic fish relic asset updated.
  
• Sacred Bark relic asset updated.
  
• Teardrop Locket relic asset updated.
  
• Path To Victory card gets improved wording.
  
• Vault card description updated to clarify its effect.
  

• Entropic Brew now gives all potions outside of combat.
  
• Fear No Evil now correctly switches stances even if the attack causes the intent to change (eg slime split)
  
• Master Reality now works with Foreign Influence, Nilry's Codex, and Dead Branch.
  
• Potential fix for Expunger card not always working.
  
• Retro-active check to make sure The Ending achievement unlocks is triggered upon opening the Stats screen.
  

• Updates for DEU, DUT, EPO, ITA, JPN, KOR, RUS, SPA, THA, VIE, ZHS, ZHT.
  

• Modding flexibility for Stances + onEndTurn trigger.
  
• Vampire event now uses a standardized remove card function.
  
• Fix end of turn relics activating twice if Conclude card and Time Eater's ability triggers at same time.
  
• Fixed Omniscience card making some cards disappear on use.
  
• Fixed several double card play interactions.
  
• Wrist Blade was affecting attacks from double-play effects like Necronomicon.
  

Happy Friday,

This week we've been continuing work on art polish and card design via some A/B testing!
While we'll still be doing some card work, more efforts will be put into UX and bug fixes + some work on non-card content.

Physical Edition Delay
The physical editions for Slay the Spire have been delayed from 11/8 -> 11/15.
Sorry for the delay :(.

Community Fan Art

Ironclad Word Art by /u/WInchesterB


This super hype Watcher art by @m_a_p_p_u

Patch Notes
Content

• Adding new Discipline card.
  

• Reworked Fasting card.
  
• Reworked Scrawl card.
  
• Reworked Vault card.
  
• Reworked Wave of the Hand card.
  
• Reworked Weave card.
  
• Battle Hymn+ gains Innate instead of more Smites.
  
• Blasphemy card now exhausts when played.
  
• Carve Reality card upgrade reworked.
  
• Deceive Reality card upgrade reworked.
  
• Devotion and Pray card rarities swapped.
  
• Evaluate card upgrade reworked.
  
• Intangible now affects both attacks and HP loss as before (revert).
  
• Master Reality card reworked.
  
• Nirvana card rarity is now uncommon.
  
• Pray card upgrade reworked.
  
• Reach Heaven card is now Uncommon (was Rare).
  
• Reach Heaven card upgrade reworked.
  
• Rushdown card rarity is now Uncommon.
  
• Signature Move card rarity changed from Rare -> Uncommon.
  
• Tantrum card now deals 3 damage 3 times to the same target.
  
• Unraveling card is removed from the game.
  
• Wallop card damage nerfed from 10 -> 9.
  
• Wallop+ card damage nerfed from 13 -> 12.
  
• Wish card no longer loses HP, costs 2, and its effects are reduced.
  

• Custom Mode now unlocks even if you play a Daily Climb offline now.
  
• Fixed + at end of upgraded cards not being colored yellow.
  
• Fixed bug where players could not return to Choose One screen (Stance Potion/Wish) after looking at map/deck/settings.
  
• Fixed ESC buttons causing unusual behavior on card reward screens (blank maps, hiding the reward screen).
  
• Fixed Omamori not affecting certain card obtain types including Curse of the Bell.
  
• In touchscreen mode, choose one card option now works.
  
• Omamori relic now interacts with Calling Bell as intended and fixes controller crash.
  
• Plated Armor power now caps at 999.
  
• Wheel Kick card was incorrectly affected by Strike Dummy/Perfected Strike.
  

• Adding beta art for 10 cards.
  
• Adding polished art for 19 cards.
  
• Cards/powers/potions that generated Upgraded Cards now just describe them with a + in their name.
  
• Deleting two unused font files.
  
• Ink Bottle gets shiny new art.
  
• When hovering Map Legend items, the tips now appearing in a fixed position not blocking the map.
  

• Updates for DEU, DUT, EPO, ITA, JPN, KOR, THA, VIE, RUS, ZHS, ZHT.
  
• Fixing asterisk/coloring issue for JPN/ZHS/ZHT card preview words.
  

The Watcher has been available on the beta branch for about 18 days now!

This patch continues balance and design work while also integrating new and polished artwork to various assets!

We're still tweaking cards to improve the overall flow and have increased the Watcher's base health as the low health made non-combat interactions unnecessarily punishing. Lots of great feedback from various communities! We encourage discussion and we're most active at our Discord server but we read all the feedback in our inboxes and sites like Reddit even when we aren't responding to everything.

Art Updates
While we know that our beta testers enjoy placeholder artwork, artwork is getting cleaned up and polished as we continuously get improved card portraits in.



Details!


Some relics get polished and others get shiny assets

Community Fan Art


Watcher by /u/NightmareRoach who also did the beta art for Sash Whip!


This pixel Snecko and Merchant by @BstojaGraphics


We can't really link to the source for the safety of the artist.

Patch Notes
UI and Effects

• Beta art added to about 20 cards.
  
• Adding art for Horn Cleat relic.
  
• Adding asset for Captain's Wheel relic.
  
• Adding polished art for Tungsten Rod.
  
• Cleaning up the Watcher's corpse asset.
  
• Updating art for Watcher campfire asset.
  
• Updating Empty Fist, Mind, and Body cards to have more recognizable silhouettes.
  
• Remove GlowColor Enum to allow mods to have custom card glow easier.
  
• When a card is in Stasis by Bronze Automaton, the card name is now Gold color in the power tip.
  
• Added VFX for Just Lucky card.
  

• Adding Rare Watcher relic: Golden Eye.
  

• Watcher's Max HP Increased from 65 -> 72.
  
• Mantra in excess of 10 now rolls over when you enter Divinity instead of being lost.
  
• Adaptation card removed and replaced by Rushdown.
  
• Cleanse Evil card removed and replaced by Conjure Blade.
  
• Metaphysics removed and replaced by Indignation.
  
• Step and Strike card removed and replaced by Wheel Kick.
  
• Master Reality card reworked.
  
• Tantrum card reworked.
  
• Wave Of The Hand card reworked.
  
• Wish card's effects are now on Omniscience card.
  
• Wish card reworked.
  
• Conclude card damage increased 10 -> 12.
  
• Conclude+ card damage increased 14 -> 16.
  
• Establishment card rarity changed Uncommon -> Rare.
  
• Face Trader event can no longer appear past Act 2.
  
• Halt card additional Block increased from 7 -> 9.
  
• Halt+ card additional Block increased from 9 -> 14.
  
• Intangible nerfed for the player. Now only affects Attack damage.
  
• Melange relic rarity changed from Common -> Shop.
  
• Neow Colorless card choices now let the player choose 1 of 3 colorless cards.
  
• Omega card buff. Now deals its damage at end of turn.
  
• Pray now gives Insight instead of Miracle.
  
• Step and Strike unlock is now Foreign Influence card unlock.
  
• Windmill Strike card damage decreased from 8 -> 7.
  
• Windmill Strike card ramp increased from 2 -> 4.
  
• Windmill Strike+ card damage decreased from 12 -> 10.
  
• Windmill Strike+ card ramp increased from 3 -> 5.
  

• Centennial Puzzle and Tungsten Rod relics now interact correctly.
  
• Colorless card option at Neow will no longer contain duplicates.
  
• Fixed memory leak in Blight initialization. Thanks to Quincunx.
  
• Fixed memory leak in Merchant initialzation. Thanks to Quincunx.
  
• Fixed Rare Potion sparkles not occurring in some instances.
  
• Fixing Path to Victory beta art not showing up.
  
• Fixing typo in Master Reality power tip description.
  
• Plated Armor and Tungston Rod now correctly interact.
  
• Purple Cards custom/daily mod now actually adds purple cards.
  
• Runic Cube and Tungsten Rod relics now interact correctly.
  
• Rupture and Tungsten Rod relics now interact correctly.
  
• Self Forming Clay and Tungsten Rod relics now interact correctly.
  
• Storm of Steel+ card now shows upgrades Shivs for the card preview.
  
• True Grit card now Exhausts randomly again.
  
• Tungsten Rod and Emotion Chip relics now correctly interact.
  
• Typo fix in Golden Eye relic.
  

• Updates for DEU, DUT, EPO, FRA, ITA, JPN, KOR, RUS, VIE, ZHS, ZHT.
  

Time for another progress report,

We're still working on compositionally and thematically adjusting the Watcher's cards but we also brought in a slew of new potions & sparkles!

Next week we'll probably still be changing a lot of cards, make some visual effects for cards, and maybe polish up some relic arts.


Shiny!

Golden Joystick Awards
We're on the shortlist for Best Indie Game and PC Game of the Year!
Vote for Slay the Spire on the Golden Joystick Awards :)





Community Fan Art COSPLAY?!

The Silent looking really menacing by @xiaozhuo_wu



A short break from fan art to appreciate some hard work on these costumes by @MissMariaCos

Patch Notes

Content

• New Defect Rare Potion - Essence of Darkness.
  
• New Defect Uncommon Potion - Potion of Capacity.
  
• New Ironclad Rare potion - Heart of Iron.
  
• New Ironclad Uncommon Potion - Elixir.
  
• New Silent Uncommon Potion - Cunning Potion.
  
• New Watcher Common potion - Bottled Miracle.
  
• New Watcher Rare potion - Ambrosia.
  

• Adaptation card is now rare.
  
• Adaptation nerfed. Cost increased by 1. No longer upgrades to Innate.
  
• Battle Hymn reworked.
  
• Block Actions now still occur post-combat, allowing Blocking of Beat of Death and others.
  
• Blood Potion is now Common.
  
• Blood potion nerfed from 25% -> 20%.
  
• Brilliance card is now Ethereal.
  
• Brilliance card reworked.
  
• Cloak Clasp relic Block lowered to 1.
  
• Collect card reworked. Now gives Miracle+ instead of energy.
  
• Crush Joints card damage lowered by 1.
  
• Deva Form card reworked.
  
• Empty Mind card is now Uncommon.
  
• Eruption+ no longer gets a damage buff. Costs 2 -> 1 instead.
  
• Flow State card is now Uncommon.
  
• Focus Potion is now Common.
  
• Ghost in a Jar is now Rare.
  
• Master Reality card reworked.
  
• Meditate card reworked.
  
• Mental Fortress card values nerfed from 4(6)->3(4).
  
• Nirvana card reworked.
  
• Poison Potion is now Silent only.
  
• Sash Whip card damage lowered by 1.
  
• Through Violence card now retains.
  

• Beta art added to 50+ cards.
  
• Polished art added to 20+ cards.
  
• Class-specific potions now render a colored outline in the Potion Lab screen.
  
• Outlines for both relics and potions in the compendium are now more visible.
  
• Potions hovered in Potion lab screen now have their tips displayed in a fixed position (rather than cursor).
  
• Updating Windmill Strike, Sands of Time and Perseverance card descriptions to be shorter.
  
• Uncommon and Rare potions now emit particles in card reward and shop screens.
  

• Enable manual and auto line breaking mode for ZHT.
  
• Fixed NL clashes with auto line breaks for ZHS, JPN font rendering.
  
• Implementing more logic to remove period-only lines from CJK languages.
  
• Scrawl only uses UPGRADE_DESC if it's not empty now.
  
• Updates for DEU, ITA, JPN, KOR, POL, RUS, VIE, ZHS, ZHT.
  

• Card Library screen no longer scrolls up on first open.
  
• Card Library screens cards were smaller for Purple, Colorless, Cursed. Fixed.
  
• Fix for Power tips being offset when there are a lot of Powers.
  
• Fixed Just Lucky card doing its effects out of order.
  
• Fixed Spirit Shield card applying wrong values when played in non-standard ways (eg Wish).
  
• Halt card's additional Block is now affected by Powers.
  
• Lesson Learned card can no longer spawn from card generating effects mid combat.
  
• Potential fix for stance potions + touchscreens not interacting correctly.
  
• Removing Truth and Wisdom cards from Card Library as they're deprecated.
  
• Swapping action orders for Empty Mind so it follows the card's description.
  

Hey everyone,

It's been a week since the 4th character came to the beta branch. Things are still pretty chaotic in terms of design and balance work and we thank you for your continuous support and feedback.

We'll be continuing work on core design and balance this week and we'll also be accepting beta art (see below) so that players can more easily differentiate cards! Please see the patch notes section at the bottom to see a list of all the changes since the last report.

Beta Art Submissions
We're now accepting beta art submissions for new cards implemented for this set of content!
However, please keep in mind that we're undergoing many changes and this may result in cards being cut or reworked.

Please see our initial Beta Art submission guidelines post for templates and general information regarding beta art submissions

Community Fan Art
We're getting Watcher fan art!!! Very exciting.


The Watcher by /u/AzoryKeron


The Watcher in action by /u/MaltyCrab

Patch Notes

EDIT: A hotfix was also pushed out to fix a crashing issue.

Content

• Adding Captain's Wheel relic. Rare.
  
• Adding Sash Whip card. Common attack.
  
• Adding Horn Cleat relic. Uncommon.
  
• Reworked Brilliance card.
  
• Reworked Flurry of Blows card.
  
• Reworked Inner Peace card.
  
• Reworked Prostrate card.
  
• Reworked Vengeance card -> Simmering Fury.
  
• Reworked Vigilance card.
  
• Reworked Tungsten Rod relic.
  

• Akabeko damage buffed from 3 -> 9.
  
• Carve Reality card gets slightly reworked.
  
• Clarity card Deprecated.
  
• Consecrate deals +1 damage.
  
• Consecrate+ deals +2 damage.
  
• Deceive Reality card gets slightly reworked.
  
• Follow Up card damage increased from 6 -> 7.
  
• Follow Up+ card damage increased from 8 -> 10.
  
• Horn Cleat block icnreased to 14.
  
• Sancitity card gains 2 less Block but draws 1 additional card.
  
• Slight rework of Path To Victory.
  
• Smite card buffed from 10 -> 12 damage.
  
• Snecko Oil reworked.
  
• Tranquility (Previously Clear The Mind) buffed to Retain.
  
• Tungsten Rod is now a rare relic.
  
• Wallop card is now Uncommon, costs 2, and deals 2 less damage.
  
• Wireheading now triggers at start of turn to better interact with Weave.
  
• Worship upgrade changed from giving Innate to Retain.
  

• Beta, Omega, and other new cards now appear in the Card Library.
  
• Brilliance card no longer gets stuck when played with 0 cards.
  
• Curse removal shrine will no longer incorrectly appear when you have Curse of The Bell.
  
• Fix for Attack/Skill/Power potion extras not having its cost set to 0.
  
• Fixed Discovery card giving two cards.
  
• Mental Fortress power now displays the correct name.
  
• Re-adding a font that caused some text to not appear in some languages.
  
• Smite card now appears in Card Library.
  
• Snecko Oil potion no longer displays the confused keyword.
  
• Tantrum's Cannot Change Stance power now correctly flagged as a debuff.
  
• Tungesten Rod no longer stops Blasphemy from killing you.
  

• Removed double initialization of card descriptions on game load.
  
• Wireheading card renamed to Foresight.
  
• Cards which have Mantra now show the Divinity tip as well.
  
• Talk To The Hand card wording updates.
  
• Watcher leaderboards should now be working.
  
• Wording improvements for 10+ cards.
  
• Worship card now also contains Divinity keyword tip.
  
• Adding a VFX for Judgement card.
  
• Lightning strikes down the Blasphemer.
  
• Clear the Mind renamed to Tranquility to better differentiate from Empty Mind.
  
• Fixed spelling error in Judgments name.
  
• Typo Fix for Watcher's memory in the Sensory Stone event.
  
• Wireheading power now states start of turn.
  

• Credits for VIE updated (not in-game yet).
  
• Manual and auto line break mode for card descriptions enabled for JPN/ZHS languages.
  
• Updates for DEU, DUT, ITA, JPN, KOR, RUS, SPA, THA, VIE, ZHS, and ZHT.
  

Hey everyone!

In these reports we will be writing up what we've changed, what's going to be changing and probably what we're working on every week or so.
The main focus of this week is fixing all of the new issues and interactions.

Second of all, we'd like to thank our community members and /u/ForgottenArbiter for making a post with all that's changed in the game outside of the 4th character!
It's formatted beautifully on the reddit post.

This summary is posted here:

Cards

• Fire Breathing: New effect: Cost 1, "Whenever you draw a Status or Curse card, deal 6 (10) damage to ALL enemies."
  
• Sever Soul: Now deals 22 damage when upgraded (was 20)
  
• Fiend Fire: New wording (same effect): "Exhaust your hand. Deal 7 (10) damage for each card Exhausted. Exhaust."
  
• Reprogram: New wording (same effect): "Scry 4 (6)."
  
• Curse of the Bell (new card): "Unplayable. Cannot be removed from your deck.
  
• Various Cards: "upgraded" has been capitalized
  
• Various Cards: Tooltips for temporary cards created in combat have been added to existing cards like Immolate and Blade Dance
  

• Pure Water (Starter, Watcher): At the start of each combat, add a Miracle into your hand.
  
• Akabeko (Common, all classes): Your first attack each combat deals 3 additional damage.
  
• Ceramic Fish (Common, all classes): Whenever you add a card to your deck, gain 7 gold.
  
• Ink Bottle (Common, all classes): Whenever you play 10 cards, draw 1 card.
  
• Melange (Common, Watcher): Whenever you shuffle your draw pile, Scry 3.
  
• Tungsten Rod (Common, all classes): At the start of your turn, if it is before turn 6, gain Block equal to the current turn.
  
• Strike Dummy (Uncommon, all classes): Cards containing "Strike" deal 3 additional damage.
  
• Teardrop Locket (Uncommon, Watcher): Start each combat in Calm.
  
• Yang (Uncommon, Watcher): Whenever you play an Attack, gain 1 temporary Dexterity.
  
• Cloak Clasp (Rare, all classes): At the end of your turn, gain 2 block for each card in your hand.
  
• Holy Water (Boss, Watcher): Replaces Pure Water. At the start of each combat, add 3 Miracles into your hand.
  
• Sacred Bark (Boss, all classes): Double the effectiveness of potions.
  
• Slaver's Collar (Boss, all classes): During Boss and Elite combats, gain [E] at the start of your turn.
  
• Violet Lotus (Boss, Watcher): Whenever you exit Calm, gain an additional [E].
  

• Meal Ticket: Now Common (was Shop)
  
• Toy Ornithopter: Now Common (was Shop)
  
• Eternal Feather: Now Uncommon (was Boss)
  
• White Beast Statue: Now Uncommon (was Boss)
  
• Lizard Tail: Now Rare (was Boss)
  
• Black Blood: Now heals for 12 HP (was 10)
  
• Calling Bell: New effect: "Upon pickup, obtain a unique Curse and 3 relics." (see Curse of the Bell, above)
  
• Hovering Kite: New effect: "The first time you discard a card each turn, gain [E].
  
• Wrist Blade: Now adds 4 additional damage (was 3)
  
• Orrery: Now Shop (was Boss)
  

• New Character: The Watcher
  
• New Mod: Purple Cards
  
• New Potion: Stance Potion (Watcher Only)
  
• New Potion: Duplication Potion
  
• Fairy in the Bottle: 10% HP -> 30% HP
  
• New Achievement: Amethyst (This achievement is currently bugged, though, and you get Sapphire instead)
  
• New Achievement: Amethyst+
  

• Consecrate and Consecrate+ deal 1 more damage.
  
• Exiting a stance via cards like Empty Mind now count as stance change for cards like Adaptation and Controlled Change.
  
• Followup and Folloup+ card deal 1 more damage.
  
• Halt card's Wrath bonus increased by 1.
  
• Halt+ card's Wrath bonus increased by 2.
  
• Lesson Learned card deals 2 less damage.
  
• Lesson Learned+ card deals 3 less damage.
  
• Path to Victory+ now exhausts.
  
• Protect card gains 2 less Block.
  
• Protect+ card gains 3 less Block.
  
• Sacred Bark now works with Attack, Skill, and Power potions.
  
• Sacred Bark relic now works with Duplication potion.
  
• Weave card deals 1 more damage.
  
• Weave+ card deals 2 more damage.
  

• Fix for banner text not showing up for JPN/KOR/ZHS/ZHT.
  
• Fixed 10+ Devotion power not entering Divinity every turn.
  
• Fixed issue where stance related idle sounds weren't stopped if you abandoned a run.
  
• On grid card select screens. Picking the maximum anount of cards you can choose no longer auto confirms your selection.
  
• Scrying Weave with a full hand now discards the extra Weave cards.
  

• Empty Mind now draws cards before exiting stance to be consistent with other Empty cards.
  
• Scrollable dropdowns now supports scroll wheel and arrow keys.
  
• Completing a run -> Winning a run for Watcher unlock.
  
• Tantrum description updated wording.
  

• Applying the Mantra power now has a unique SFX.
  
• Updating all Watcher-related SFX (pitch/volume/etc).
  

• Updates for DEU, DUT, ITA, KOR, RUS, ZHT.
  

Hello!

The 4th character is now available in the beta branch. Beating the game and having the Defect unlocked will unlock this character. If these requirements are already met, the character will be available as soon as you start the game!



This update comes with one new character, new relics, new potions, balance changes, and other unnamed goodies will be added during this test period. Also, the Fire Breathing card was reworked.

Participating in the beta is easy! Opt into the beta through the BETAS tab for Slay the Spire. For more info, see here.

Can I use my saves from the main branch?

Yep. Open the game properties and under the LOCAL FILES tab select BROWSE LOCAL FILES... and create a copy of your preferences folder and rename it betaPreferences (case sensitive).
If you run into issues, we recommend asking the nice folks at the Slay the Spire Discord server or reach us at support@megacrit.com.

Physical Editions?!

We worked with our publisher, Humble Bundle, to release on other platforms and now physical editions are available for pre-order! Physical editions are available for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

Slay the Spire Soundtrack on Vinyl?!??

Our composer Clark Aboud is releasing a special vinyl edition of the Slay the Spire soundtrack! The cover also features unique artwork by our illustrator Anailis Dorta.

It's up for pre-order now! Check it out at Ghost Ramp.

Community Fan Art
Sometimes I think about posting all the memes. However, we must remain professional.
Take a look at some art!


The Ironclad looking pretty JAXXed by @arkalpha


This great rendition of all the characters in cubism by /u/MochaSNotsosweet


Hexa-Ghost by

That's all for now, we'll be using Steam's new Event system to push out minor patch announcements so be sure to Follow us on Steam or our twitter (@megacrit) if you want to stay on top of updates.

Hey everyone,

We've got a few things to share!

Character Four Steam Beta
Testing and balancing for the 4th character will be available on the Steam Beta branch on September 9, 2019.
As much as we would love to test it out on all the platforms, the logistics and patching process is only possible through Steam.

Once testing and polishing is complete, this free DLC will be available on Steam and all the other platforms!

Now Available on Xbox One
Speaking of platforms, we're now available on Xbox One through either the Xbox Game Pass or the Microsoft Store!

LibGDX 1.9.9 Version
We're pushing out a special build of Slay the Spire with a game engine update.
This build upgrades our game from LibGDX 1.9.2 -> LibGDX 1.9.9. This update gives multi-monitor support, DPI scaling fixes, improved performance, updated controller support, and allows screenshake to perform correctly in 16:10 aspect ratios.

Due to a few backwards compatibility issues we're pushing this build out in a separate branch titled LibGDX199 and this build will be updated alongside the beta branch until we confirm it's safe to merge into the beta branch. This can be found in the game's BETA tab in the same way you would access the beta branch.

Note: Save files for the beta branch are shared with the saves in the LibGDX199 branch.

Hey everyone,

It's been quite a while since release. The past few months have been pretty busy with ports and the patching of those ports but we wanted to update the PC version to contain all of the fixes, optimizations, and quality of life changes we worked on during this process.


Whats in the Works?

• All the ports! Eventually, you'll be Slaying the Spire on your smart fridge (not really, but never say never).
  
• Additional translations.
  
• Free DLC containing a 4th character and additional content.
  

The Silent by Fausuto


Demon Form and Wraith Form by selemina


r... rain? by bluehightoptrainers


Chibi Silent by LuriaHirai


This shiny portrait of The Champ by @fraudulentyoshi


The Silent Fire by Densetsu VII


A fusion of the Act 1 Bosses: Hexaslimedian! by /u/Dragonclaude


This gritty rendition of the Silent by @TheHalret


Gremlin Leader except I get lazier the further right the pictures goes by /u/pulfian


This cute Silent by @ewilio

• Added Eternal One achievement, unlocked when all other achievements are unlocked.
  

• Berserk card buffed. Self Vulnerable 3 -> 2.
  
• Blood Potion buffed to heal 10% -> 25%.
  
• Bottled Flame no longer appears if all of your Attacks are starter cards.
  
• Bottled Lightning no longer appears if all of your Skills are starter cards.
  
• Heel Hook+ card buffed. 7 -> 8 damage.
  
• Bullseye card buffed. Lock-On 1 -> 2.
  
• Bullseye+ card buffed. Damage 10 -> 11.
  
• Colosseum event now appears only at the top half of Act 2.
  
• You no longer run into The Cleric or Beggar events if you do not have enough gold.
  

• Patch Notes screen is back.
  
• Touchscreen Mode can now be enabled in the Input Settings (at the bottom).
  
• End Turn button can now utilize long-press confirmations for controllers and keyboard (not mouse). Turn on/off in Game Settings.
  
• Improved trackpad support for laptops.
  
• Potion menu is way bigger now (easier to click on for mouse/touchscreen).
  
• Top panel's floor number indicator is now an icon + number.
  
• Top panel gold icon, health icon, potion slots, and modifiers now scale up when hovered.
  
• Top panel elements gets their spacing updated.
  
• Adding a right stick button asset when highlighting volume sliders via controller.
  
• Ascension description tips are now numbered in English.
  
• Ascension level is now an icon + number in the top panel (gold when max level).
  
• Black screen when viewing a grid of cards (such as removing a card from deck) is now darker (50% -> 70% opacity).
  
• Boss node on map now has a hover reticle when using controller.
  
• Campfire sleep VFX is now slightly darker.
  
• Cards with glowing effects now have a border that appears instantly along with the VFX.
  
• Cleaning up the tick asset used on various checkboxes and dropdowns.
  
• Combat reward screen's items now get a reticle when hovered/highlighted. Much more noticeable.
  
• Completion percentages in save slot view do not show tenths place if 0% or 100% now.
  
• Confirm buttons now place the controller prompt icon dynamically, preventing text overlap.
  
• Credits screen can now be scrolled up/down using controller.
  
• Custom Mode screen's modifiers are now more obviously hovered/highlighted.
  
• Defect gets a glow-version asset at Rest Site like Ironclad/Silent.
  
• Disabling particle effects now disables the particles which appear upon applying buffs/debuffs.
  
• Fixing some grammar and typos in Potion popup text.
  
• Game and Input Settings tabs get larger hitboxes.
  
• Game Saved VFX now appears below the top panel if more than 3 game modifiers are enabled.
  
• Grand Finale card is now 0.3s faster in Fast Mode.
  
• Highlight box now resizes so text isn't blocked when highlighting view upgrade option in Card Library.
  
• Highlighted cards in RunHistoryScreen are now more obvious when using controllers.
  
• Letterboxing for unsupported aspect ratios no longer have a 1px gap.
  
• Line spacing in Menu Panel headers reduced by 15%.
  
• Lose HP action is now much faster in Fast Mode.
  
• No Run Histories found text is now centered and has improved line spacing.
  
• Offering card is now faster in Fast Mode.
  
• Options in Custom Mode screen are now more obviously highlighted.
  
• Plated Armor power description is more accurate now.
  
• Removed the 'Build:' text on version number as it's unnecessary.
  
• Rich Presence now contains Ascension level (unless 0).
  
• Seek card now organizes cards by rarity and alphabetically.
  
• Silent's starting Strikes are put before Defends (to be consistent with other characters)
  
• Sort button's highlight UI when using controllers are now dynamically sized based on text length.
  
• Static Discharge card now clarifies that it triggers when you receive unblocked attack damage.
  
• Text in Game Preferences settings now aligns better with checkboxes.
  
• Tips for boss relics are now offset so they can no longer cover a relic when hovered/highlighted using controller.
  
• Tips for potions now show up when hovered in Reward screens and Shops (not just in the Potion panel after acquisition).
  
• Vampires and Council of Ghosts events now show how much Max HP is lost (rather than showing %)
  
• Well-Laid Plans card plays slightly faster now.
  
• When hovering various tips in the Game Settings, they're now rendered on the left side instead of at cursor position.
  
• When previewing card for upgrade via controller, the upgrade result is now hovered, no longer obscuring your view.
  
• When viewing your deck, you can now sort it by obtained order, alphabetical, rarity, and cost.
  
• With controllers, end turn now disables cards from being hovered, so cards don't obscure enemies.
  

• Card UI elements now utilize a texture atlas (uses less VRAM and improves performance)
  
• Compressed lots of images.
  
• Fixed memory leaks in several monsters, events, ui, and other objects.
  
• Flame Particles and Lightning Orb VFX assets are now pre-loaded.
  
• Font generators are now cached better, improving load time and reducing memory usage.
  
• Hexaghost and Lagavulin enemies now pre-cache music so there's no lag when music starts mid-combat.
  
• Improving render performance of several UI, VFX, and Fonts.
  
• Merged 3 identical fonts, reducing memory usage and improving load up time.
  
• Removed dual initialization of several assets.
  
• Removed a lot of unused assets.
  
• Many VFX assets are now pre-cached, preventing stutter when certain cards or moves occur.
  

• Confusion and Corruption cards utilize improved hooks.
  
• Improved lifesteal logic for Reaper and Shelled Parasite.
  
• Refactored Hologram card to not have to verify number of cards in the card itself.
  
• Specimen relic now uses the same code as other relics for applying its effect.
  
• Unhardcoded various cards, relics, and enemies.
  

• Fixed card and relics unlocking earlier than they're supposed to.
  
• All-Out Attack, Madness, and Reboot cards no longer affect Card Rewards when used (rng issue).
  
• Astrolabe relic now works even if your deck contains 3 cards or less.
  
• Back button is now hidden in Save Slots screen if all saves are deleted.
  
• Blank The Evil's bug fix for Card Reward screen non-skip issue.
  
• Bottled Cards upgraded from Mind Bloom event have their description updated correctly.
  
• Can no longer accidentally bring up the rename screen with controller when navigating through Settings.
  
• Changed Input settings are now correctly retained when changing save slots.
  
• Darkstone Periapt relic now works with Hoarder mod.
  
• Empty Cage relic now works with 1 or less valid cards in your deck.
  
• Envenom's Poison is now applied immediately after the damage occurs.
  
• Fix for Cost X cards utilizing extra energy when playing quickly.
  
• Fix for crash when pressing RIGHT using controller when viewing 5 cards in grid card select screen.
  
• Fix for Map and View Deck top panel buttons sometimes skipping card rewards.
  
• Fix for part of the map UI remaining on the screen after hitting Return in certain circumstances.
  
• Fix for thank you message in credits displaying prematurely.
  
• Fixed Automaton's orbs preventing scaling of Genetic Algorithm and Ritual Dagger.
  
• Fixed Bag of Preparation not drawing cards affected by Confusion power.
  
• Fixed bug where a certain set of actions could disable tips for a card for the rest of combat.
  
• Fixed bug where deleting a save slot would generate dummy files in a ghost slot.
  
• Fixed bug where dialog bubbles moved faster if higher resolution.
  
• Fixed bug where Exhaust Pile can be viewed using controller even if it's empty.
  
• Fixed bug where screenshake and SFX were played when navigating to locked character select option via controller.
  
• Fixed card tips that remained on screen when you died.
  
• Fixed certain Status and Curses triggering their end of turn effects by playing them normally with Medical Kit or Blue Candle under specific circumstances.
  
• Fixed crash when attempting to hover view upgrade in Card Library using controller.
  
• Fixed crash when highlighting mods in top panel using controller.
  
• Fixed crash when navigating left on controller when colorless cards are sold out.
  
• Fixed crash when opening deck view if you have 0 cards (e.g. when you start a run with the Draft modifier)
  
• Fixed crash when pressing down on controller on 3rd option at Rest Site if you have 4 options.
  
• Fixed crash when pressing right on controller in Run History with 0 runs.
  
• Fixed damage and block values showing green increased values when the end value was the same.
  
• Fixed enemies not applying powers if they died in the process (e.g. Thorns).
  
• Fixed enemy order issues in Slime Boss, Gremlin Leader, and Reptomancer encounters.
  
• Fixed Enlightenment+ not reducing cost of cards with 1 or 0 cost for turn.
  
• Fixed errors with moving around relic compendium screen with a controller for Event relics.
  
• Fixed exploit of playing Normality while already having played 3+ cards.
  
• Fixed Fission+ evoking Orbs in reverse order.
  
• Fixed non-Steam platforms showing 0 total damage dealt on the victory screen.
  
• Fixed inability to inspect relics when Shopscreen is open via controller.
  
• Fixed incorrect scaling on draw and discard piles making them very large on high resolution.
  
• Fixed Invincible power with interactions such as The Boot and Block.
  
• Fixed issue where ending turn with Retain while hovering the player could make the leftmost card act strangely via controller.
  
• Fixed issue if cards are queued and turn is ended after an enemy dies, Nilry's Codex can open and cause issues.
  
• Fixed issue where map can be opened during room transitions, cancelling certain functionality.
  
• Fixed issue where moving cursor to bottom of window would cause cards in hands to bounce indefinitely.
  
• Fixed issue where Rest Site option text wasn't placed correctly (scaling).
  
• Fixed issue where tips weren't appearing correctly in single relic popup view.
  
• Fixed issue where up/down on controller in potion drink/discard also navigated to monsters/cards during combat.
  
• Fixed issue where you briefly see the map when you start a run due to its default transparency.
  
• Fixed lingering campfire sounds from rest sites.
  
• Fixed Machine Learning card affecting hand size even when negated.
  
• Fixed Meal Ticket not working on Shops from ? rooms.
  
• Fixed Nemesis gaining Intangible too early and messing up damage from Thorns.
  
• Fixed Normality card not stopping cards affected by Setup and Forethought.
  
• Fixed Regret causing less HP loss than normal if other cards played themselves first.
  
• Fixed Reptomancer not triggering some important logic after death.
  
• Fixed Rip and Tear, Sword Boomerang, and Thunder Strike continuing its hits over Thorns and Shifting powers.
  
• Fixed Second Wind doing its effects in reverse and only gaining one instance of block.
  
• Fixed slash attack VFX used by some enemies being the wrong size in high resolutions.
  
• Fixed Spit Web move's VFX appearing from wrong spot in high resolutions.
  
• Fixed the opening of Input Settings allowing skipping of unskippable screens and potentially getting to an unplayable state.
  
• Fixed the seedSet flag not resetting, preventing Achievements from unlocking in subsequent runs before game is reloaded.
  
• Fixed Wrist Blade not affecting Sword Boomerang, Rip and Tear, and Thunder Strike.
  
• Game and Input Settings panels are now taller so the input rows stay within the panel.
  
• Improved precision of volume sliders with a controller so that values can be set precisely back to 50%.
  
• Knowing Skull event can no longer give you a potion if you have the Sozu relic.
  
• Leaderboard filters labels are now displayed for the options selected when opening the screen.
  
• Library event can no longer contain duplicate cards.
  
• Neow's Lament relic now grays out when it is used up.
  
• No longer possible to interact with the map with a controller while single card view screen is open.
  
• Relic Collection menu no longer scrolls erratically in some cases when using controller.
  
• Removed note about Leaderboards being reset weekly as Early Access is over.
  
• Reptomancer no longer creates daggers with more HP than intended.
  
• Reset To Defaults option in Option Menu now resets all controller mappings properly.
  
• Run History screen's cards and floor nodes can navigated easier with controllers.
  
• Shop and Boss BGM now correctly mutes when game is minimized with the Mute While in BG option on.
  
• Slider in the Character Stats menu no longer gets stuck before reaching the bottom with a controller.
  
• Torch particles in Exordium now rise at the same speed on all resolutions.
  
• Twitch plugin now works if language isn't English and system encoding isn't set to UTF-8.
  
• Various card selection effects that don't update RNG are now seeded.
  
• When a dropdown menu is open in RunHistory screen, the controller up/down no longer affects selection outside the dropdown menu.
  
• WobblyLine VFX used in Snecko's glare is now larger and scales correctly with resolution.
  

• Portuguese Brazilian was out-of-date so it has been removed from main branch.
  
• JPN translation overhaul by Kakehashi Games.
  
• JPN and THA now have translated Merchant Shop images.
  
• THA fonts updated.
  
• Updated credits for JPN, POL, THA, and TUR.
  
• Added logic to disallow periods to cause line breaks in Asian languages.
  
• Rewrote how Asian languages are rendered, fixing several formatting issues.
  
• Asian languages now utilize lineSpacing variable in renderSmartText.
  
• Asian languages no longer have A~Z sorting filters in Card Library screen.
  
• JPN renders card descriptions from left to right.
  
• Rest Site options' rest option info text now uses localized period character.
  
• Run History and Daily Screens now use YEAR/MONTH/DAY by default for dates except in English.
  
• Run History date format in JPN utilizes localized AM/PM.
  

Its Finally Here!

You can now play Slay the Spire wherever you want, and we think thats pretty sweet. We know it took awhile but thank you so much for your patience, without your support this wouldnt exist.

Check it out: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/slay-the-spire-switch/

Slay the Spire is now On-The-Go

Its been a while, but we finally have a 100% locked-in date for the release date of Slay the Spire on Switch! We know this has been pretty heavily anticipated, so we cant wait to get this thing out the door for you all.

Get ready to climb the Spire on the bus/train/plane/automobile (passenger side please).

Go click this link in a few weeks: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/slay-the-spire-switch/

Rejoice!

Today is the day we officially spread beyond our PC roots to our console friends! You can now play Slay the Spire on your couch, with a controller in hand. This is just the first step to bringing Slay the Spire across more platforms to reach an even wider audience, and we could not have done it without the support of our PC players.

Here is a store link to check it out on the PS4.

One last thing.

Now, this may bring up questions about the Switch port, and all we can say is that were close SO close. Once again, we want to err on the side of caution before announcing anything but a lot of progress has been made and we hope to have some official news soon enough.

Hey everyone,

Slay the Spire is out of Early Access now. Look! A new trailer!
https://youtu.be/9SZUtyYSOjQ
Weekly Updates
With the full release of the game, we'll be taking a break from weekly updates and spend some time to re-prioritize our efforts and coordinate releases onto other platforms. Rest assured, Slay the Spire will be available to as many people as possible!

Future Content
Yep, more content is coming to Slay the Spire! There are a few more PC-specific features we couldn't squeeze in but that will come as an update later on. Also, more "content" will be coming... No spoilers today.

What's changed since Early Access?
Slay the Spire was released into Early Access on November 14, 2017. We compiled a list of highlights from all of our weekly patches. It's been a productive year!

• A Third Character
  
• The Final Act
  
• Ascensions
  
• Daily Climb
  
• Custom Mode
  
• Seeded Runs
  
• Beta Card Portraits
  
• Twitch Voting Integration
  
• Upgradeable Colorless Cards
  
• Fast Mode
  
• Save Slots
  
• Boss Map Icons
  
• Steam Leaderboards
  
• Steam Workshop Support
  
• Steam Trading Cards
  
• Run History
  
• Card Library Tabs
  
• Rich Presence Support
  
• Controller Support
  
• 32-bit Builds
  
• Official Soundtrack
  

• 0 -> 15 Additional Languages (Community translated!)
  
• 189 -> 283 Cards
  
• 109 -> 161 Relics
  
• 40 -> 52 Events
  
• 10 -> 28 Potions
  
• 54 -> 64 Enemies
  
• 1,300+ issues were fixed
  
• 500+ gameplay balance and tweaks were made
  
• 500+ UI or VFX were created, modified, or overhauled
  
• 50+ SFX were added or modified
  

• Fixed issue where Run History Screen's rooms weren't recording properly.
  

• Colossuem Nob fight ordering swapped so that the Nob can apply Vulnerable.
  

• Early Access and Beta popups removed from the game.
  
• EARLY_ACCESS -> V1.0 (Version 1.0) for version number string.
  
• Increasing scroll bounds by 150px in stats screen for the bottom.
  
• Main Menu items appear 0.25s faster (reducing wait).
  
• The post-credits Neow cutscene can now be sped up if you click 5 times during the cutscene.
  
• Swift Strike's VFX is now a blunt VFX rather than slice VFX.
  

• Fixing a rare crash that happens under unknown circumstances in the relic view screen.
  
• Adding safety logic to prevent hand size from going over >10 in rare cases.
  
• Fixed issue where Prismatic Shard can return cards which were not yet unlocked.
  
• Fixed issue where upon launching the game, the next unlock level's content was available for all characters.
  
• Fixing rare crash on startup caused by modified save files.
  
• Fixing rare crash when using controllers on death and victory screens.
  
• Obtaining keys are now faster so they can't fail to be obtained if the players leaves very quickly.
  
• Preventing a rare act transition crash most likely linked to old saves.
  

• Updates for POL, PTB, SPA.
  

Slay the Spire is Now Available on Steam!

We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

Hello!

We're going into full release in just under a week so we have been hard at work finishing up Steam Trading cards, making some final balance adjustments, and ensuring that the game is as stable as possible.

Reddit AMA
We're holding an AMA on Reddit on January 23 at 5pm (PST)!
For those not in the know, it means we'll be answering any questions you may have about the game or the team.
When it's up, we'll link it from our subreddit page:https://www.reddit.com/r/slaythespire/

Price Increase
The price of the game is increasing shortly before full release.
Last chance to get the game at our Early Access rate!

Incomplete Languages
As many of you know, Slay the Spire was graciously translated by the community. Unfortunately, not all languages were fully translated or became outdated over time.

The following languages will become unavailable in the full release (but available in the beta branch):

• Greek
  
• Norwegian
  
• Thai
  
• Turkish
  
• Serbian (Cyrillic)
  
• Serbian (Latin)
  

• Book of Stabbing enemy's multi-stab attack strikes 1 less time on Ascension 18.
  
• Colosseum event's second fight is now a Gremlin Nob + Taskmaster (rather than 2 Gremlin Nobs)
  
• Gambling Chip relic now triggers after card-draw based relics such as Ring of Serpent.
  
• Spire Growth's constrict power nerfed 15 -> 12 on Ascension 18.
  
• Writhing Mass' strong hit damage nerfed 34 -> 32. 40 -> 38 (Ascension 2)
  

• Adding a VFX for cards when they are removed from your deck.
  
• A Thousand Cuts now activates 0.3s faster in Fast Mode and 0.2s faster without.
  
• Adding controller support for death and victory screens. Allows players to see score bonus info.
  
• (Controllers) Button prompt for Singing Bowl's +2 Max HP button now dynamically placed so it doesn't overlap text.
  
• Cards now fade out slightly faster when they're removed from decks (0.5s -> 0.33s)
  
• Draw and Discard piles are now visible during hand card select screens as they can be interacted with.
  
• Map Legend no longer moves slightly upon scrolling.
  
• Map Legend placed slightly higher so cursor doesn't hover Map Legend icons after pressing Proceed to open a map.
  
• Piercing Wail card is now 1.2s faster with Fast Mode.
  
• Rest option now becomes disabled if you can't Rest (Coffee Dripper relic).
  
• Smith option now becomes disabled rather then disappearing when using Midas mod or Fusion Hammer relic.
  
• Updated assets for the Wheel of Change event.
  

• Fixed issue where card rewards via Prismatic Shard could contain duplicates.
  
• Fix for crash issues with Note For Yourself event and modded cards.
  
• Fixed issue where certain game modes became unavailable after switching profiles until restarted.
  
• Fixed issue where opening map during death fadeout starts the next run with an empty map on screen.
  

• Updates for EPO, DEU, DUT, IND, POL.
  

Hello!

This week's patch brings Rich Presence support, VFX, bug fixes.

Full Release January 23
In preparation for the full release and ports coming later this year, we're spending time to ensure that the game is stable. Ports are being worked on and we'll be announcing those dates as soon as we get them!


Hemokinesis!

Price Increase
Will be on January 21, 2019.
Again, a big thank you to all of our Early Access testers!

Rich Presence
Now you can see what game mode, floor, or character your friends are playing as in Slay the Spire.


Only Dinosaurs (Hey, that's me) has Rich Presence here!

We've added support for this feature in Steam and will be expanding support to other platforms such as Discord.

Community Fan Art
Feeling artsy?! Want something featured? Just ping us at @MegaCrit on Twitter or @Developers at our Discord server.


Jaw Worm by NightmareRoach


Ironclad camping out by @BlueStorm4WG


Ironclad being exhausted by u/Dragonclaude

Patch Notes

Gameplay

• Meal Ticket relic buffed. Heals 10 -> 15.
  
• Meal Ticket relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (unless Endless mode).
  
• Reaper card now heals the correct amount if the player has The Boot relic.
  
• Stone Calendar relic buffed. Damage 50 -> 52 for flavor.
  
• The Bomb card damage buffed from 30 -> 40.
  

• Adding VFX for the Heart's buff move.
  
• Adding VFX for Heart's debuff move.
  
• Adding VFX for Hemokinesis card.
  
• Adding VFX for Reaper card.
  
• Draw, Discard, and Exhaust piles can now be viewed during Codex/Discovery card selection.
  
• Improvements to counter on Stone Calendar to make it more obvious when it will trigger.
  

• Fixed issue where facing too many elites causes a crash (due to modifiers/Endless).
  
• Fixed issue where restocked cards via Courier were hard to select using controller.
  
• Fixed issue which allowed you to cancel selecting a card to bottle by interacting with the top menu.
  
• Fixed evoked Orbs affecting card reward outcome (affects seeded runs).
  
• Shifting power no longer triggers when Transient receives 0 damage.
  

• Updates for DEU, DUT, EPO, ITA, JPN, RUS, SPA, ZHS, ZHT.
  

Happy New Year!

This week's patch brings Steam Workshop support, bug fixes, and a few touch-ups here and there.

Steam Workshop
Utilizing and keeping up-to-date with community-made mods are now easier as we're enabling Steam Workshop support today.

Have you wanted more cards, relics, characters? Many hardworking players have been modding Slay the Spire for quite a while and they can now be easily accessed through the workshop. Check them out here!

Browse the Workshop page, subscribe to some mods, and upon launching the game, choose the "Play with Mods" option.

Now you are a professional mod user

For support and info on installation, bug reporting, or creating mods, join the modding community at our Official Discord channel at #modding. We want to play your mods!

Community Fan Art
Some excellent renditions to kick off the year


The Ironclad by nathanj


The Silent by u/khazan0


The Defect by @Nicxan

Patch Notes

Hotfixes

• Fix for Card Reward screens sometimes not dismissing, causing duplicate card selection issues.
  

• A Note For Yourself event is now available if you aren't playing your highest ascension AND the ascension level is 14 or less.
  
• If you have unlocked The Ending achievement, you can now enable the final act in custom mode.
  
• Stone Calendar relic damage buffed 40 -> 50.
  
• The Specialized Daily Mod now allows Alchemize (was restricted because the mod Brewmaster used to exist)
  

• Improved controller navigation of Rest Site options when there are 5 options.
  
• Recall option now appears in Run History screens when hovering a rest site room node.
  
• Removed flame VFX that appeared when Reptomancer was defeated.
  
• Smiling Mask relic stops flashing if Card Removal Service has been utilized.
  
• The Input Settings menu button now utilizes a different image.
  
• The Standard play menu button now utilizes a different image.
  
• Updated relic asset for Blood Vial.
  
• Credits updated and improved timing for the Thanks for Playing message.
  

• Adding a check for a Cancel button (Safer for Modders!)
  
• Adding a check for a potential game exit crash instead of returning to menu.
  
• Adding logic so Beyond elites score increments more accurately in case of future/custom Acts.
  
• Blight rolling now increments relic rng seeds correctly (consistency on save/load)
  
• Fix Run History corruption due to save/load (again).
  
• Fixed card randomization inconsistencies caused by save/load.
  
• Fixed events which sometimes rerolled when loading a save after an event-based combat.
  
• Fixed instances where certain screens could be opened while on that screen, causing visual issues.
  
• Fixed issue where a non-dismissable Map could be dismissed by navigating menus in a specific order.
  
• Fixed issue where Blood Potion wouldn't heal the player if used immediately after combat.
  
• Fixed issue where City and Beyond Elites killed score bonuses weren't showing up if you won/lost in The Ending.
  
• Fixed issue where Entropic Brew did not give players potions if used post-combat.
  
• Fixed issue where opening deck/map/settings and returning would enable cancelling out of certain screens (like choosing cards for bottles).
  
• Fixed issue where opening deck/map/settings during Card Removal Service caused the card to not remove unless you access the shop again.
  
• Fixed issue where potion seeds weren't persistent on save/load.
  
• Fixed issue where Toy Ornithopter relic wouldn't trigger outside of combat.
  
• Fixed issues where navigating from screen -> map/deck -> settings would dismiss some screens such as Sealed Deck.
  
• Fixed issues where some monsters dealt the incorrect damage with Philosopher's Stone on turn 1.
  
• Note For Yourself event no longer crashes with modded cards.
  
• Opening Settings during Draft mod now properly hides the top banner.
  
• Potential fix for Prismatic Shard returning duplicate cards on rare occasions.
  
• Prevent Run History corruption when loading saves in Event rooms.
  
• The Specialized Mod now gives you 5 of a random card and works with mods Draft and Sealed Deck.
  
• Tingsha, Sword Boomerang, Bouncing Flask, Rip and Tear, Thunder Orbs, Havoc, and Juggernaut now utilize seeded enemy target randomization.
  

• Reduced some unnecessary saving when encountering bosses.
  

• Adding shop assets for EPO.
  
• Updates for EPO, DEU, DUT, EPO, FRA, ITA, KOR, SPA, UKR, ZHS, ZHT.
  

Happy holidays!

While things are slower due to winter festivities and gatherings, we're pushing ahead with bug fixes and visual improvements! Steam Workshop support is almost ready but we're taking a few days off for the holidays.
The next patch will be on January 3, 2019.

As a reminder, there will be a price increase after the current Winter Sale as detailed in last week's patch.


Beaaaaam

Community Fan Art

Praise Snecko by @Albino_bat


Ironclad by /u/khazan0


a Sandy Stormfield Defect by @Koda_Ellipsis

Patch Notes
UI and Effects

• Updated relic asset for Bird-Faced Urn.
  
• Updated relic asset for Eternal Feather.
  
• Adding a VFX for Entangle by Red Slaver (NON-Fast Mode only)
  
• Adding a VFX for Sweeping Beam card.
  
• Busted Crown relic now flashes when its effect is triggered.
  
• Hovering over an icon in the Map Legend now highlights all rooms of that type on the map.
  
• Made in-game tips pop in from the bottom instead of just being there so it's slightly more noticeable.
  

• Ascension 20 achievement not unlocking if you die on Act 4 on A20.
  
• Beat of Death Power now damages you after a card's actions completely resolve.
  
• Clicking two cards quickly when choosing one to discard will no longer discard the wrong card.
  
• Crash fix when looking at Deck, Map, or Settings after getting Pandora's Box at Neow.
  
• Fix for Egg relics causing an issue with cards in the Library event screen.
  
• Fixed issue where a pre-battle action would sometimes not trigger when continuing a run.
  
• Fixed issue where evoked Dark Orbs wouldn't switch targets if the first target died when multi-casting.
  
• Fixing black map bug when pressing ESC in certain situations.
  
• Invincible Power tooltip now correctly matches the icon and shows the correct amount.
  
• Opening map/deck/setting on certain screens no longer forfeits an upgrade, boss relic, or blessing.
  
• Spire Spear was incorrectly buffed on Ascension 17 instead of 18.
  
• Timer no longer stops at the end of Act 3 if you meet the conditions to reach Act 4.
  
• You can no longer Toke bottled cards.
  

• Updates for DEU, EPO, ITA, SPA, and ZHT.
  
• Updates for DUT and credits updates for DUT.
  

Hello everyone,

This week's patch brings further visual polish and improvements to controller support while we continue work on Steam Trading Cards and Workshop support. We also have some announcements!

Release Date
Slay the Spire will be out of Early Access on January 23, 2019.
We'll reveal more on the future of Slay the Spire and Mega Crit Games on release.

Price Increase
Anybody reading this probably owns the game. With the upcoming full release, there will be a price increase shortly after the upcoming Winter Sale so if you were planning on buying or gifting, it's a good time to do so!

Community Fan Art


The Defect by @MoronisMcDude


These excellent monster drawings by @RedDyeNo5


The Silent facing off against The Guardian by Marce Ricardo

Patch Notes
Balance

• Maw Bank relic will no longer spawn at Shops.
  
• Enchiridion relic now triggers earlier so its card is prioritized over some other relics.
  

• Updated relic asset for Ancient Tea Set.
  
• Updated relic asset for Pandora's Box.
  
• Updated relic asset for Red Skull.
  
• Updated relic asset for Regal Pillow.
  
• Updated relic asset for Strange Spoon.
  
• Updated relic asset for Sundial.
  
• Updated relic asset for The Specimen.
  
• Updated relic asset for Toolbox.
  
• Updated relic asset for Tough Bandages.
  
• Adding VFX for Clash card.
  
• Adding VFX for Feed card.
  
• ESC button can cancel out of several screens again.
  
• Twitch integration icon moved to a location that does not overlap the Timer.
  
• Adding support for LS, RS button assets when remapping controller inputs.
  
• Adding support for Right Stick up down left right assets when remapping controller inputs.
  
• Inputs that have crossover between keyboard/controller can now be remapped without crashing.
  

• Duplicate cards will no longer appear on reward screens with Prismatic Shard.
  
• Fixed crashes when reassigning various hotkeys.
  
• Fixed issue that allowed player to throw Smoke Bomb in some rooms to no effect.
  
• Fixed issue that caused Frail and Dexterity to inconsistently interact with each other.
  
• Fixed issue that caused Shovel, Girya, and Peace Pipe to incorrectly spawn when they should not.
  
• Fixed issue where Beta Art toggle sometimes appeared in the incorrect spot.
  
• Fixed issue where Beta Art toggle was available for cards which did not have Beta Art access.
  
• Fixed issue where cards from Unceasing Top were offset on the far left if using a controller.
  
• Fixed issue where highlighted room in map screen changed if you scrolled up using controller.
  
• Fixed issue where navigating up/down on the dungeon map using controller can move your cursor out of the game window.
  
• Fixed issue where Pandora's Box relic couldn't transform cards to Rare.
  
• Fixed issue where Save & Quit via controller also ended the turn if you were in combat.
  
• If you Save & Quit then immediately continue using a controller, the audio no longer bugs out.
  

• Updates for DUT, FRA, IND, JPN, KOR.
  

Greetings,

This patch brings some balance tweaks, visual flourishes, bug fixes, and support for Dutch!

We're also working on Steam Trading Cards and Steam Workshop support but they aren't ready just yet.


The Beyond's background now has some animated objects

Community Fanart


Various silly enemies of the Spire by @RedDyeNo5


Defect lost in thought by @BlueStorm4WG


The Silent taming a beast by @noestringfound

Patch Notes

Balance

• Ascension no longer increments if the run was seeded.
  
• Writhing Mass enemy's attacks deal slightly less damage.
  
• Darkstone Periapt relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Dream Catcher relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Egg relics no longer spawn beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Girya relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Juzu Bracelet relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Matryoshka relic no longer spawns beyond floor 40 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Maw Bank relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Old Coin relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Omamori relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Peace Pipe relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Potion Belt relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Prayer Wheel relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Preserved Insect relic no longer spawns beyond floor 52 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Question Card relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Regal Pillow relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Shovel relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Singing Bowl relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Smiling Mask relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• The Courier relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Tiny Chest relic no longer spawns beyond floor 40 (excludes Endless mode).
  

• Playtester Art toggle added in Settings menu (Accessible after "The End?" achievement is unlocked).
  
• Adding beta art for Bane, Charge Battery, Fission, Choke, Corpse Explosion, and Equilibrium.
  
• Updated relic art for Bag of Preparation.
  
• Updated relic art for Mark of Pain.
  
• Updated relic art for Orichalcum.
  
• Updated relic art for Ring of the Serpent.
  
• Updated relic art for Ring of the Snake.
  
• Updated relic art for Whetstone.
  
• Added a max cap of 2 for bg objects that float around in the Beyond.
  
• Floating background objects in the Beyond are now animated.
  
• Floating background objects in the Beyond are now colored similarly to the bg's color randomization.
  
• Capitalization consistency improvements for messages when choosing cards from hand.
  
• Capitalization consistency improvements for some run mods.
  
• Capitalization fixes for Magnetism power description.
  
• Courier relic description clarified.
  
• Disabling particle effects now hides the runic objects in the Beyond.
  
• Foreground elements for the Beyond's bg are now colored similarly to the bg's color randomization.
  
• If a high res beta card portrait is missing, now the low res version is rendered scaled up in single card view screens.
  
• Increasing distance between bonus label and its amount in score screen to accommodate wordier languages.
  
• Minor text cleanup for Augmenter event.
  
• Minor text cleanup for Face Trader event.
  
• Minor text cleanup for Vampires event.
  
• No longer rendering a relic's counter when viewing them on a Reward screen.
  
• Plated Armor power wording improved when enemies have the power.
  
• Removed extra space on flavor description for Eternal Feather.
  
• Reworded Emotion Chip relic to be more accurate with its actual behavior.
  
• Upon sorting by A-Z, the first click is now ascending order.
  
• Wording improvements when relics or UI mention the Merchant.
  

• Accuracy power now correctly works with Shivs played from the top of the deck via cards like Mayhem or Havoc.
  
• Burn cards no longer trigger Time Eater's ability at end of turn.
  
• Fix crash issue when viewing run history if a run utilized the the deprecated Colossus modifier.
  
• Fix some situations where run history would display incorrect rooms.
  
• Fixed a false Unlock option which appeared on death if Defect was not yet unlocked.
  
• Fixed Corpse Explosion card's portrait using incorrect card type.
  
• Fixed issue when Writhing Mass enemy would sometimes not change its intent when hit.
  
• Fixed issue where Black Star relic was always returning two relics of the same rarity.
  
• Fixed issue where Jaxxed achievement was obtained when enemies gained 50 Strength.
  
• Fixed issue where stacked Thorns on Spiker enemies was not interacting correctly with relics and powers.
  
• Fixed issue where starter cards weren't be marked as seen.
  
• Fixed Panache Power not exhausting.
  
• Fixed Self-Forming Clay relic triggering incorrectly off of prevented damage from Buffer power.
  
• Fixing memory leak caused by undisposed textures for several VFX.
  
• Medical Kit relic will no longer cause Slimed cards to glow as if they could be played when you have no energy.
  
• Medical Kit will no longer allow the player to sometimes play Slimed when out of energy.
  
• Muzzle blight was applying twice to Lizard Tail and Fairy Potion.
  
• Negative Strength power typo fix.
  
• Nloth's Gift was flashing at incorrect times.
  
• Rebound card no longer puts Burns on top of your deck.
  
• Reptomancer's Daggers and Philosopher's Stone relic now correctly interact.
  
• Secret Portal event no longer says Ignored in run history. Run history rows capped at 20 elements.
  
• Spire Shield's intent was incorrect for one of its moves. Attack -> Attack + Debuff.
  
• Throwing a Smoke Bomb at the Final Act boss no longer crashes the game.
  
• Typo fix in Augmenter event.
  
• Wing Boot relics were still spawning beyond certain floors when they should not.
  

• Compressing a few card ui assets.
  

• Adding Dutch language (DUT) + credits.
  
• Portrait frames now dynamically resize if the card type name is long (affects non-English).
  
• Updates for EPO, DEU, DUT, EPO, FRA, ITA, POL, RUS, SPA, UKR, ZHS, ZHT.
  

The final act is now available.

For those who wish to avoid spoilers, simply skip over the section below.
This week's patch also includes some other news!

The Final Act
This content is accessible in Standard and Ascension runs after completing the game with each character (not including retroactive completions).


This content includes:

• A special Final Act beyond Act 3
  
• 1 Elite
  
• 1 Boss
  
• 4 Achievements
  
• Special endings for each character
  
• Bonus card portraits used during playtesting and extras by the community
  

• Mind Bloom
  
• The Ending
  
• The Heart
  
• The Spire Slain
  
• Bonus (Launch Trailer)
  

• Lots of Final Act related content.
  
• A Note For Yourself event is now out of beta.
  

• Ascension 20 now correctly works on Endless mode.
  
• Awakened One and Orb Walkers were not shuffling their status cards into the player's draw pile, but into a fixed position.
  
• Damage taken per turn checks for cards like Masterful Stab were not correctly resetting.
  
• Fix for Mummified Hand relic targeting cards with costs lowered by Setup or Forethought.
  
• Fixed issue where Nloth's Face relic consumed both relics from Matryoshka.
  
• Fixed issue where the seed wasn't displaying after it was set in Char Select and Custom Mode screens.
  
• Fixed issue where viewing relics with Nilrys Codex' popup caused issues with controllers.
  
• Fixed softlock caused if you can't remove cards in: Back to Basics, Cleric, and Living Wall events.
  
• HP loss amount is now blue for Neow's Lament relic description.
  
• Red Skull relic's Strength gain is now correctly applied to the cards in your hand at start of combats.
  
• Turnip and Ginger relics now prevent Artifact from triggering when they nullify debuffs.
  

• Daily mods that alter the starting deck like Sealed Deck and Draft now eliminate Pandora's Box as it does nothing.
  
• Wing Boots relic no longer appers after floor 40 (except with the Endless mod on).
  

• Controllers can now view Exhausted cards during combat.
  
• Controllers have better behavior when navigating up/down when viewing card screens like Draw and Discard piles.
  
• Energy icon now rendered on Single Card View screen for Curses with energy costs.
  
• ESC key now closes the map and deck view screens again (if able).
  
• Exhaust Pile now uses a scroll bar when there are enough exhausted cards.
  
• Hovering room elements in Run History now make them 2x size rather than 1.5x.
  
• Icons used in Run History screen's path nodes are now sharper.
  
• Regret card wording improved to clarify interactions with cards like Rupture.
  
• The term Orb Slot(s) within descriptions is now lowercased to Orb slot(s).
  
• Title capitalization for Cloak And Dagger -> Cloak and Dagger.
  
• Title capitalization for Hand Of Greed -> Hand of Greed.
  
• Title capitalization for Riddle With Holes -> Riddle with Holes.
  
• Updating elite path node icon in Run History screen. Now color blind accessible.
  
• Claw card gets VFX.
  
• Maw enemy's bite attack gets VFX.
  
• Rip and Tear card gets VFX.
  
• Scrape card gets VFX.
  
• The Champ's sword attacks get VFX.
  

• Reorganizing RUS credits a bit.
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, JPN, IND, POL, RUS, SPA, ZHS, ZHT.
  

Hey everyone,

This week we spent time finishing and tweaking up some content while sorting through and incorporating beta art.

Final Content
This will be available in the main branch next week. The additional music brought in with this content will also be added to the Slay the Spire - Soundtrack next week, along with the special track used in the Mind Bloom event.

Beta Art
A ton of submissions were received, thank you! The beta art submissions will be open for 1 more week as we identified some cards with missing portraits. For information on participation and what this entails, please see the previous weekly announcement.

Community Fan Art

Full Heal! by /u/Zixzs


a Transient redesign by MrKrane


Gremlin Leader by @l3w15911


Patch Notes

Balance

• Philosopher's Stone buffed: Enemies gain 2 Strength -> 1 Strength.
  
• Removing Careless daily mod.
  

• Adding a new line so Innate keyword is on its own line for Machine Learning+.
  
• Colorless card mod now correctly interacts with Shiny mod.
  
• Colorless card mod was causing colorless cards to be added to the card pool twice as often as they should.
  
• Dead Adventurer event was not giving the gold correctly (just showing the effect).
  
• Fix for boss treasure rooms incorrectly showing in the run history screen.
  
• Fixed cards like Blood for Blood and Masterful Stab being affected outside of combat.
  
• Fixed issue where Ambient SFX in the main menu played double upon loading a profile.
  
• Fixed issue where you couldn't Retain if it was your only card (controllers).
  
• Fixing several display issues with the run history screen.
  
• Mind Blast card now correctly works with Controlled Chaos mod.
  
• Minor Snecko Eye description fix.
  
• Painful Stabs power will no longer give wounds if the damage was prevented by Buffer.
  
• Potential fix for card + end turn button hover causing an annoying sound issue.
  
• Preventing crashes for saves that used deprecated run mods like Careless or Colossus.
  
• Reptomancer enemy was receiving the Ascension 18 boost at Ascension 17.
  
• The Flight daily mod now properly works with controllers.
  
• Top Panel heal effect will no longer play when enemies heal or gain max HP.
  
• Wheel of Change event no longer makes you stuck if the only removable cards in your deck are bottled.
  

• Philosopher's Stone wording improvements.
  
• Can now open the Settings menu while in special card obtaining screens like from Calling Bell or All Star daily mod.
  

• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, IND, ITA, KOR, POL, RUS, ZHS, and ZHT.
  
• Updating credits for RUS, and ZHS.
  

Happy Halloween (yesterday)!

This week we mainly worked on the final content which is now being tested in the beta branch! However, various fixes and improvements while working on this has carried over as well.

Final Content
It's currently being tested in the beta branch. It's on track to make it into the main branch this month (November)!

Beta Art!
When implementing cards throughout the development of Slay the Spire we drew and received a lot of placeholder art before our talented artists gave us finalized artwork. We've decided to share this artwork in the game but there's a problem: Not all of our cards have placeholder art.



We need your help to fill in the missing art or the beta art feature may not make it into the full release :(.

To help us resolve this crisis, please take a look at this secret document which indicate what cards are missing beta art.

For contributions, we need a 500 x 380 PNG image that match a card template based on the card's type (templates below). Anything outside of the template will be removed. Note: Status and Curse cards utilize the Skill template.


Attack template


Skill/Status/Curse template


Power template

Submission Guidelines
Though we encourage any kind of art, please keep in mind that suggestions may be rejected for the following reasons:

• Suggestive or offensive content.
  
• Too little effort.
  
• Too much effort, you're making us look bad.
  
• Too many submissions from a single person (let other people have fun, too!)
  
• There's already art for that card, we can only have one slot. Sorry :(.
  
• The art is not related to the card at all.
  
• It's too late (noooo).
  

• Removing the Colossus mod to be reworked.
  

• Adjust margin for run history's path elements to match relics and cards.
  
• Blizzard gets improved size, velocity, and SFX pitch scaling logic (now up to 50 Frost).
  
• Checkbox to view upgrade in single card view is now much larger.
  
• Improved Dagger Spray VFX readability and no longer flashes a sprite for 1 frame at the start.
  
• Thousand Cuts power' now displays its VFX faster (0.25s -> 0.2s and 0.25s -> 0.1s FAST MODE).
  

• Added logic to remove the Strike tip from Pandora's box (attempt 2).
  
• Bonfire Spirits event now works if the only remaining cards are bottled.
  
• Capitalization fix: Jack Of All Trades -> Jack of All Trades.
  
• Certain enemies no longer gain extra strength when removing Piercing Wail or Dark Shackles from themselves.
  
• Electrodynamics' passively triggered Orbs now resolve in the correct order and flash the orbs
  
• Fixed issue where Bottled icon wasn't showing in card upgrade screens.
  
• Fixed issue where Dagger Spray VFX wasn't spawning in the right spot for some resolutions.
  
• Fixed issue where Maw enemy was considered elite in the back end.
  
• Fixed issue where relic outlines were rendered twice in reward screens.
  
• Fixed issue where seeds stopped working after completing a run until restarting client.
  
• Fixed several events modifying eventRNG values, causing future events to be inconsistent.
  
• Fixing some errors with event logging in Run History.
  
• Gold Shrine was logging an incorrect amount of gold received on A15+ for Run History.
  
• Grammar: Aside -> Beside for Black Star's flavor text.
  
• Insanity and Diverse mods now work together.
  
• Resolution fallback now affects Fullscreen only, allowing higher resolutions for vertical multi-monitor setups.
  
• Shiny mod and Diverse now work together correctly.
  
• The Lab event now shows up correctly in the Run History.
  

• Compressing various over-the-shoulder and character corpse assets.
  
• Removed various unused assets.
  

• Adding a name to DEU credits.
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, IND, ITA, JPN, KOR, POL, RUS, SPA, ZHS, and ZHT.
  
• Updating REFERENCES.txt
  

Greetings,

This week's focus was on prepping the final content for next week, visual updates, and bug fixes.

Final Content?! (BETA)
It's coming to the beta branch on Monday! (October 29). We won't be giving out too much details in order to prevent spoilers. However, localization for this content will be available 1 or 2 days prior.

For information on the beta branch, click here! Keep in mind that save files must be transferred manually if you switch to the beta branch. This is to prevent save file incompatibilities.

Visual Updates

We're incorporating more visual effects!

Community Fan Art

Fat Gremlin and Ice Cream by by Katie Daniel


This amazing Donu patch by /u/JonChinaMan


Deca & Donu by

Patch Notes

Hotfixes

• Fixed issue where incorrect RNG was utilized to create reward cards.
  
• Fixed issue where daily scores weren't uploading.
  

• Council of Ghosts event now only gives 3 Apparition on Ascension 15+.
  
• Prismatic Shard now sets your max orbs to 1 only if you have 0 max orbs and you aren't the Defect.
  
• Smiling Mask relic will no longer spawn on Hoarder daily mod.
  
• Standard Runs with set seeds now always give you Neow's Blessing.
  
• Wing Boots relic will no longer spawn on Certain Future daily mod.
  

• Adding a hit react animation for the Ironclad.
  
• Adding an updated idle animation for the Ironclad.
  
• Adding VFX for Blizzard Card (scales with Frost channeled).
  
• Ironclad's combat sprite updated (more color and contrast).
  
• Updating VFX for Searing Blow card (now scales with upgrade count).
  
• Adding 0.1s animation blend between Hit and Idle animations for Ironclad, Silent, and Defect.
  
• Closing out of a Card Reward screen using controller will now reset your selection position for combat reward screens, hand position, etc.
  
• Custom mods no longer have overlapping hitboxes, this allowed the player to select two at once.
  
• Evoking Orbs is now 0.15s faster per orb in Fast Mode.
  
• The Silent's idle animation speed is slowed by 10%.
  
• Updated description for Preserved Insect for clarity.
  

• Adding more information to bottled card saves to prevent incorrect card being bottled when loading a save.
  
• Defect and The Silent unlocks now reuse existing character instances.
  
• Fix for a scenario which upgrading cards affected by Snecko Eye would sometimes give negative cost cards.
  
• Fixed a memory leak whenever player returned to the main menu.
  
• Fixed bug where playing Mayhem card would alter your card rewards.
  
• Fixed issue where displayed seed value was calculated every frame.
  
• Fixed issue where Neow did not give anything to players who first encountered her.
  
• Fixed issue where seeded runs allowed ascension unlocks and uploading to leaderboards.
  
• Fixed issue where The Specimen's Poison transfer failed if the target died before the transfer.
  
• Fixed issue where True Grit card was not behaving correctly with seeded runs.
  
• Fixing issues with Writhing Mass displaying the incorrect intent on turn 1.
  
• Game now handles monitor resolution changes more gracefully.
  
• Mind Bloom event combat now correctly gives appropriate gold for the battle.
  
• Poison transfer target for The Specimen is now seeded random.
  
• Random Curse generating effects were marking the wrong curse as seen in the card library.
  
• Reboot and Deep Breath cards no longer trigger shuffle-based relics twice.
  
• Relics with counters like Pen Nib and Girya no longer display the counter offset incorrectly when the player has too many relics.
  
• Thank you message in the credits was appearing at the wrong time.
  
• The discard pile will no longer incorrectly shuffle into the draw pile when having a full hand prevents all of the card draw.
  
• Typo fixed in Colossus mod's name (extra space)
  
• Typo fixed in We Meet Again event.
  
• Updated energy orb rendering logic on cards to scale properly for high res monitors.
  
• Vintage modifier now correctly drops cards on bosses.
  

• Fusion card works better for modders now
  
• Removed rendundant dungeon scene foreground rendering.
  

• Updates for DEU, EPO, ITA, KOR, POL, RUS, SPA, TUR, ZHS, and ZHT.
  

Hello!

This week we updated and added some enemies in Act 3, added various visual effects, made Neow changes, and worked on some performance improvements.

Act 3 Enemies
Several changes were made in Act 3. Some stronger jaw worms and a wriggly monster have been introduced into the enemy pool.



Reptomancer has been buffed and designated as an elite monster.
The elite encounter featuring 2 orb walkers have been removed from the elite pool and are the new guards for an Act 3 event.

Visual Effects?!


Yep. Various cards and an enemy attack have received some special effects to make them feel better to use! Some animations were added and improved for The Silent and Defect as well. More animations and effects will be coming!

Neow Updates!
We created Neow with the intent to foster creative deckbuilding. However, many have felt that the game was considerably harder without a blessing from Neow and the threshold to receive her blessing was too high (especially in higher Ascensions).

To compensate, we've added a fixed set of choices for those who don't reach the Act 1 boss (Neow's Lament or HP bonus).

Additionally, two new Colorless Card-based blessings were added as these cards weren't seeing much play as they only appeared in shops and certain events.

Community Fan Art
Such amazing art. I will try to get better, too! If you want to be featured, just mention @MegaCrit on Twitter!


Silent with a Treat by Lunamazey


Ironclad by Zan the 35th


YOU CALL THAT A WEAPON? by Cweeperz

Patch Notes

Content

• A Writhing Mass wriggles into Act 3.
  
• A horde of Jaw Worms can now be encountered in Act 3.
  
• Two new Neow starting bonuses involving Colorless cards.
  

• Ascension 16 shop price increase lowered from +15% -> +10%.
  
• Colorless cards price decrease. 1.3x -> 1.2x price compared to regular cards.
  
• Deflect+ card buff: 6 -> 7 Block.
  
• Double Orb Walker elite encounter removed from the game.
  
• Experimenting with how Neow reacts to the player not reaching the boss.
  
• Good Instincts card buff: 4 -> 5 Block. Good Instincts+: 7 -> 8 Block.
  
• Grand Finale card buff: 40 -> 50 damage. Grand Finale+: 50 -> 60 damage.
  
• Hand Of Greed card buff: 15 -> 20 damage. Hand of Greed+: 20 -> 25 damage.
  
• Reptomancer and her daggers receives various buffs and is now an Elite encounter.
  
• Reptomancer's heal move is replaced by a high damage attack.
  
• Swift Strike card buff: 5 -. 6 damage. Swift Strike+ buff: 8 -> 9 damage.
  
• The Bomb+ card buff: 36 -> 40 damage.
  
• The Mysterious Sphere event in Act 3 now uses the Double Orb Walker combat.
  

• Energy orb now rotates at fast speed when it has energy.
  
• Feed now correctly works on the Awakened One when it is in its second form.
  
• Fix for proper behavior when duplicating cards like Rampage and Genetic Algorithm with effects like Echo Form.
  
• Fix for Saving and Loading on Elites in event rooms with Deadly Events mod.
  
• Fixed issue where health bar of bosses remain after they're defeated.
  
• Fixed issue where Transient had HP/damage buffs at incorrect Ascension levels.
  
• Fixed punctuation in Augmenter event.
  
• Fixed various save bugs when saving and loading at Neow.
  
• Hitting ESC with Singing Bowl no longer automatically chooses the Singing Bowl option on card select screens.
  
• Hitting ESC with Singing Bowl when viewing an upgraded card in a reward screen no longer causes softlock.
  
• Preserved Insect and Sling should now work in all elite combats including elite battles from events (like dead adventurer event).
  
• Purchasing Bottle relics after removing the last possible card to bottle out of your deck will no longer softlock.
  
• The Bomb card's buff icon now correctly displays numbers in blue.
  
• The game is no longer stuck in a continue/abandon loop after changing slots and winning a run.
  
• When viewing old run histories of runs with Brewmaster, the game will no longer crash.
  

• Improved performance for text rendering. (Greatly reduces idle CPU load)
  

• Adding VFX for Adrenaline card.
  
• Adding VFX for Grand Finale card.
  
• Adding VFX for Offering card.
  
• Adding VFX for Rainbow card.
  
• Adding VFX for Searing Blow card.
  
• Adding VFX for Spit Web attack by Louse enemy.
  
• Adding VFX for Whirlwind card.
  
• Forethought card wording improvements.
  
• Heart icon in top panel now pulses if HP < 25%.
  
• Purity card wording improvements.
  
• Run History can now show what happened in events. (Only for future runs)
  
• Run History path now displays 1 Act per row.
  
• Sped up boss death timings in fast mode.
  
• The Defect gets a hit react animation.
  
• The Silent gets a hit react animation.
  
• The Silent gets an updated idle animation.
  
• When the Colossus daily mod is active, enemies are rendered 30% larger.
  
• When using Preserved Insect, affected enemies are rendered 30% smaller.
  
• Whenever the player heals, the heart icon in top panel now flashes green.
  

• Updates for DEU, EPO, IND, ITA, KOR, POL, RUS, SPA, UKR, ZHS, ZHT.
  
• Updating POL credits.
  

Hey again,

This week's focus was on refining upcoming content, prepping for mod support, various bug fixes, and a new option to disable particle effects for low performance machines.

Disable Particle Effects


We added a new option that removes particle effects from backgrounds and various effects.
This should improve performance for slower devices and decrease battery consumption for laptops.

Final Call for Translations
When we leave Early Access, outdated translations will need to be removed. If there are any outdated languages that you want to see in the game, support and instructions for translation is always available at our Discord channel.

Community Fanart

The Merchant by inkywavves


The Silent by /u/cubey1234


The Silent Fire by Nick D.

Patch Notes

UI and Effects

• Midas mod wording made to be more consistent with Fusion Hammer relic.
  
• Particle effects can now be disabled in the Settings. (disables environmental effects)
  

• All Out Attack card's discards now utilize seeds.
  
• Confusion power will now work on Curses and Status cards that have costs.
  
• Defect's starting relic is marked as seen.
  
• Diverse mod and Colorless Cards mod now can correctly work together in Custom Mode and Dailies.
  
• Draw Pile no longer indicates that it is a shuffled view order when viewing it with Frozen Eye.
  
• Fix a bug where setting a card's cost to 0 wouldn't work on 0 cost cards.
  
• Fix for colorless cards appearing too frequently for Colorless Cards mod.
  
• Fixed exploit that allowed player to circumvent hand card confirmations (like Survivor).
  
• Fixed issue that made enemies more common in ? rooms since some new mods were introduced.
  
• Fixed Run History screen crash if the run contained 0 relics.
  
• Fixes for how Eviscerate incorrectly worked with cost reduction effects like Enlightenment.
  
• Flight's power description now correctly resets at the start of turn.
  
• Neow max HP gain and take damage option no longer overlap (dealt lots of damage).
  
• Neow's transform options now utilize seeds.
  
• Some events like Pleading Vagrant did not correctly remove remaining event choices when selecting the leave option.
  

• Improvements for rendering energy orbs and icons for JPN, ZHS, and ZHT (notable Run History)
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, ITA, KOR, SPA, UKR, ZHS, ZHT.
  

Hello!

This week brings a few more daily mods, several bug fixes, and we worked with a few people to update the wording for many many cards, relics, and powers. Also, some content is still planned to come into beta this month :).

Daily Mods

This week brings 3 new daily mods! Combined with last week's mods, we think this brings in quite a lot more variety into Daily Climbs and more options for Custom Mode.

Wording Improvements
So this will be a bit of a long one. We received a huge list of suggestions and feedback pointing out inconsistencies and potential improvements to wording. While it would be hilarious to list them all out, listing out the general rules and style changes would probably be best for all of us. So here it goes:

• Cards, Powers, and Relics that have a recurring effect or applies a recurring buff have been changed from "At the start of your turn" -> "At the start of each turn" for clarification.
  
• The term "attack damage" is now lowercase, this differentiates it better from Attacks, which refers to the card.
  
• Attack and Skill cards are referred to as Attacks and Skills in descriptions. However, when referring to a specific card, cards of a specific color, cards of a specific rarity, or specific types that aren't Attacks or Skills, they now have the word "card" appended to the end. e.g. Power cards, Status cards, Colorless cards, Uncommon cards.
  
• Keywords are now always gold in descriptions. Block, Vulnerable, etc.
  
• Boss and Elite are now capitalized in any descriptions
  
• Card, Cards, Relic, Relics, Buffs, and Debuffs are now lowercase and not colored in descriptions.
  
• If a relic that has counters is used up, it now has a consistent message across all relics, "This relic is used up."
  
• Certain keywords on cards are now ordered so they're easier to identify. This order is: Unplayable > Innate > Ethereal > Card Description > Exhaust.
  
• The word "all" is all-caps in certain scenarios. These scenarios are: When it refers to all enemies and when referring to cards that are outside of your hand (Apotheosis).
  
• Updated instances of "take damage" vs "receive damage" based on who the target is, how the description is formed (condition vs effect), and a few special cases. e.g. "Whenever you receive damage, do X." is now common for player Powers and Relics.
  
• Draw Pile, Exhaust Pile, Deck, and Discard Pile are now lowercase in descriptions.
  
• Numbers and percentages should always be blue when seen in power and relic descriptions. However, numerical multipliers like twice and double should not be.
  

• New Custom Mod - Daily Mods. Allows starting a run with 3 random daily mods.
  
• New Daily Mod - Colossus. Enemies have bonus HP but drop better rewards.
  
• New Daily Mod - Controlled Chaos. Start with Frozen Eye. At the start of your turn, add 10 random cards to the bottom of your draw pile.
  
• New Daily Mod - Deadly Events. ? Rooms can now contain Elites but Treasure room chance is increased.
  

• All sources of random temporary card generation in combat (like Dead Branch) can no longer generate cards that provide healing.
  
• Augmenter event transform option now allows choosing 2 cards to Transform instead of selecting 3 at random.
  
• Book of Stabbing enemy on Ascension 18+ now does a single stab sometimes, but still increases its multi-stab count.
  
• Brimstone relic buffed. Now gives the player 2 Strength and enemies 1 Strength.
  
• Meal Ticket relic buff: Heals 7 HP -> 10 HP.
  
• Membership Card relic nerf: Only applies a discount now.
  

• 250+ Consistency and wording improvements for cards, powers, relics, and events.
  
• New tip added to indicate that healing cards cannot be generated randomly during combat.
  

• Adding controller support for Wing Boots relic map navigation.
  
• Bonfire Spirits event now correctly handles offering them a card with the Special rarity (like Bite, or Apparition).
  
• Colorless Cards mod now correctly interacts with shops. Prevents Courier causing cards to appear in incorrect places on the shop screen.
  
• Corruption and other cost reducing cards no longer make X cost cards like Transmutation and Malaise display cost 0.
  
• Diverse mod and Red/Green/Blue mods in custom mode now exclude each other when choosing them.
  
• Effects that trigger on damage like Masterful Stab now interacts properly with damage prevention effects like Buffer.
  
• Fix for crash caused when entering the DAILYMODS seed.
  
• Fix for issues caused by using the Sealed Deck mod several times in a row.
  
• Fixed an exploit that allowed playing the same card multiple times using controller or keyboard.
  
• Gremlin Wheel event no longer causes you to get stuck if you have no cards to remove.
  
• If you have nothing to offer the Bonfire Spirits, the game will no longer crash. The Spirits will just be sad.
  
• Keyboard confirm button now works in card selection screens (like choosing what to discard).
  
• Mushroom event now correctly shows card preview for Parasite curse.
  
• Saving and Loading with Membership Card relic no longer generates a new map.
  

• '.' can now be localized (for Asian languages) and fixes issues where those languages used an english '.'.
  
• Mutagenic Strength, Meal Ticket, and Abacus now support more flexible descriptions.
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, IND, ITA, JPN, SPA, ZHS, ZHT.
  

Hello!

We're introducing some new mods for the Daily Climb this week (and next week, too). There's also good progress going on other content which we're on track to get into beta sometime in October.

Daily Mods
We're cleaning, changing, and adding more for Daily Climbs! There's still a few missing assets for the new daily mods but they'll be in soon. The many mods added to the Daily Climb are also accessible via Custom Mode.

Community Fan Art

Everybody's Favorite Merchant by @inkywavves


The Ironclad by @Kairekirei


The Ironclad, The Silent and The Defect by @Victor_Sama

Patch Notes

HOTFIX

• Red/Green/Blue/Colorless Daily mods will now correctly work on Daily and Custom modes.
  
• Adding icon for Blue cards mod.
  
• Adding icon for Colorless cards mod.
  
• Adding icon for Flight mod.
  
• Adding icon for Green cards mod.
  
• Adding icon for Red cards mod.
  
• Adding icon for Sealed Deck mod.
  

• New Daily & Custom Mod - Careless.
  
• New Daily & Custom Mod - Chimera.
  
• New Daily & Custom Mod - Flight.
  
• New Daily & Custom Mod - Sealed Deck.
  
• Colorless/Red/Green/Blue Cards Mod are now Daily Mods.
  

• A Daily Climb now always consists of a card-related mod, system changing mod, and a difficulty altering mod.
  
• Prismatic Shard now gives 1 empty orb slot to non-Defect characters.
  
• Prismatic Shard relic no longer spawns when the Diverse daily is activated.
  
• Removed Brewmaster mod.
  
• Specialized daily mod now allow cards of any rarity.
  

• Adding icon for Chimera Daily Mod.
  
• Bottled relic images in deck view screen now scale with the card scaling.
  
• Large relic assets are no longer pre-loaded, slightly increasing load times.
  
• Reducing the volume of the card draw SFX from 70% -> 25%.
  
• Removing card hover SFX from the game.
  

• Can no longer skip cards when choosing a card via Discovery.
  
• Fixed issue where bottled relic UI caused a memory leak on the deck view screen.
  
• Fixed issue where items restocked via Courier weren't applied discounts.
  
• Fixed issue where loading a save after beating a boss you have never seen before would crash.
  
• In Custom Mode, fixed issue where Ascension was on if not set to level 0. (Even if toggled off)
  
• Mind Bloom event now correctly shows curse previews for its event options.
  
• Viewing a relic popup no longer has memory leaks.
  

• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, IND, ITA, KOR, RUS, ZHS, and ZHT.
  

Hey everyone,

Breaks are good. But patches are good, too!
This patch brings in updates for our older low-res Power icons, additional SFX, and bug fixes.

Power Icon Updates
The newer icons are higher resolution and some have been reworked for clarity.
Here's a packed texture showing off all of our power icons!


Community Fan Art
Art is nice! There's a lot more in the Artwork section of our Steam Community, too.


The Ironclad by @inkywavves

Patch Notes

UI and Effects

• Updating icon for Amplify power.
  
• Updating icon for Berserk power.
  
• Updating icon for Brutality power.
  
• Updating icon for Burst power.
  
• Updating icon for Curl Up power.
  
• Updating icon for Double Damage power.
  
• Updating icon for Double Tap power.
  
• Updating icon for Envenom power.
  
• Updating icon for Infinite Blades power.
  
• Updating icon for Intangible power.
  
• Updating icon for Juggernaut power.
  
• Updating icon for Magnetism power.
  
• Updating icon for Malleable power.
  
• Updating icon for Nightmare power.
  
• Updating icon for No Block power.
  
• Updating icon for Noxious Fumes power.
  
• Updating icon for Panache power.
  
• Updating icon for Pen Nib power.
  
• Updating icon for Phantasmal Killer power.
  
• Updating icon for Rupture power.
  
• Updating icon for Sadistic power.
  
• Updating icon for Shifting power.
  
• Updating icon for Slow power.
  
• Updating icon for Thousand Cuts power.
  
• Updating icon for Tools of the Trade power.
  
• Adding a used up image for Winged Boots relic.
  
• Adding a VFX for when your turn ends due to Time Warp power.
  
• Adding card, potion, relic, and heart icons that can appear in tips now. Used on Run History screen.
  
• Equilibrium Power's icon is now the same as Retain Power (used icon for Blur previously).
  
• Sentry elite enemies attack and debuff faster in Fast Mode now.
  
• Update for Warped Tongs relic description to infer non-permanent upgrade.
  
• Using more noticeable flashy VFX for cards upgraded via Armaments or Warped Tongs.
  

• Added loc support for two more deprecated encounters in the run history screen.
  
• Date toggle arrows for DailyScreen are now positioned dynamically based on the length of the date text.
  
• Fix for Berserk card crash.
  
• Fixed case where a card's keyword tips appeared without hovering when drawing cards.
  
• Fixed issue where Lagavulin would come out of its shell with Neow's Lament or Preserved Insect.
  
• Fixed issue where sound settings were loaded several times.
  
• Fixed issue where upgraded card from Warped Tongs wasn't showing the correct value if you had Strength/Dexterity.
  
• Fixed Ritual Dagger card portrait shape.
  
• Hand of Greed card now gives gold instantly, rather than through VFX (triggered Bloody Idol).
  
• Orb VFX no longer render in the background of the Colosseum event.
  
• Updating anti-dupe logic for card rewards for Prismatic Shard relic.
  

• Adding ambient SFX for Living Wall event.
  
• Adding ambient SFX for Mausoleum event.
  
• Adding ambient SFX for Sensory Stone event.
  
• Addnig ambient SFX for Sssserpent event.
  
• Adding ambient SFX for Winding Halls event.
  
• Adding ambient SFX to Council of Ghosts event.
  
• Adding ambient sounds for N'Loth event.
  
• Adding page turn SFX to Cursed Tome event.
  
• Adding SFX for Book of Stabbing attacks.
  
• Adding SFX for Byrd peck attack.
  
• Adding SFX for card draw. This is a commonly used, let us know what you think!
  
• Adding SFX for hovering cards in draw, discard, grid select, and view deck screens.
  
• Adding SFX for Poison Power.
  
• Adding SFX for Snecko's glare.
  
• Adding SFX for Whirlwind card + Guardian enemy.
  
• Adding SFX when extinguishing torches in Act 1.
  
• Adding special BGM when fighting a boss via Mind Bloom event.
  
• Updating SFX for Awakened One's pounce attack.
  
• Updating SFX for Bronze Automaton summoning an Orb.
  
• Updating SFX for card exhaust.
  
• Updating SFX for Champ charging up.
  
• Updating SFX for Champ Slap.
  
• Updating SFX for Collector Debuff and Summon.
  
• Updating SFX for Confusion Power.
  
• Updating SFX for Constricted Power.
  
• Updating SFX for Dexterity Power.
  
• Updating SFX for Donu Buff.
  
• Updating SFX for Entangle Power.
  
• Updating SFX for Flame Barrier Power.
  
• Updating SFX for Flight and Focus Powers.
  
• Updating SFX for Guardian Destroy dialog.
  
• Updating SFX for Metallicize Power.
  
• Updating SFX for Piercing Wail.
  
• Updating SFX for Plated Armor Power.
  
• Updating SFX for Slimed Attack.
  
• Updating SFX for Time Warp Power.
  
• Updating SFX for Vampire Bite.
  
• Updating SFX for Whirlwind (card AND Guardian enemy).
  

• Languages that wrap via character (ZHS, ZHT, JPN) now support TAB spacing in certain areas. (Run History)
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, IND, ITA, JPN, KOR, RUS, SPA, ZHS, and ZHT.
  
• Updating SPA credits.
  

Weekly Patch 41: Chill


Hello hello,

This week brings in 7 new relics, bug fixes, and some more sounds while we make progress towards full release!

Relics

3 rare relics, 2 shop relics, 1 common relic, and 1 event-only relic!

Vacation
One of our developers (half the team) is going on vacation so there will NOT be a patch next week. Yes, there will still be beta patches.

Community Fanart


Three Characters by /u/Icewreath


When in doubt, Shrug it off! by /u/Dragonclaude


Kind of a Crow by Moglipapy

Patch Notes

Content

• New Common Relic: Preserved Insect.
  
• New Event Relic: Warped Tongs.
  
• New Rare Relic: Fossilized Helix.
  
• New Rare Relic: Pocketwatch.
  
• New Rare Relic: Wing Boots.
  
• New Shop Relic: Brimstone.
  
• New Shop Relic: Prismatic Shard.
  

• Accursed Blacksmith reworked to give you a unique event relic rather than a random relic.
  
• Accursed Blacksmith's curse penalty reduced from Normality -> Pain.
  
• Fission now costs 0.
  
• Fission+ now Evokes all orbs rather than removing.
  

• 2 more SFX for Awakened One's attacks.
  
• Added additional SFX for Byrd's peck attack.
  
• Added SFX for Minion spawn and Debuff attack for the Collector.
  
• Adding SFX for Automaton's Orb spawn.
  
• Adding SFX for Byrd cawing.
  
• Adding SFX for Champ's Slap.
  
• Adding SFX to Donu's buff.
  
• Champ gets a new SFX when charging up.
  
• Ascension level choosing in custom mode now allows looping around to choose your ascension level quicker.
  
• Character select screen now saves your last played Ascension level per character except when you unlock a new level.
  
• Fixed naming on N'Loth's Hungry Face to be consistent with other usages of N'Loth's name.
  
• Several consistency improvements to event choice wording.
  

• Colosseum Nobs no longer play double music.
  
• Deprecated Flame Bruiser enemy now appears for Run History screen.
  
• Fixed bug causing block to maintain between colosseum combats.
  
• Fixed Smoke Bomb and Colosseum bug that caused the player to go invisible.
  
• Killing a Colosseum Nob no longer causes the music to stop.
  
• Red Skull relic should now correctly deactivate when healing in all scenarios.
  
• Reptomancer enemy was sometimes not spawning new daggers.
  
• Run History Screen now correctly uses localized monster names for what killed you.
  
• The keyword 'exhausts' now shows the Exhaust hover tip (Blue Candle, etc).
  

• Update for SPA credits.
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, IND, ITA, JPN, KOR, RUS, SPA, ZHS, ZHT.
  
• Monsters fought and event encountered in run history screen is now localized and using proper naming.