STS2 Patch Notes — 2025-08-14

CONTENT

Silent:

• Reworked The Hunt card

Defect:

• Added Pilebunker card
• Reworked the following cards:
• Helix Drill
• Refactor
• Shadow
• Snowfield
• Deprecated the following cards:
• Fork
• Iterate

Necrobinder:

• Deprecated the following cards:
• Twist
• Ghostly Armor

Potions & Relics:

• Reworked Kifuda relic/Adroit power

Ancients:

• Combined all Orobas Discovery relics into a single relic in the Compendium screen

Enemies:

• Reworked Exoskeletons' Hard To Kill power
• Reworked Phantasmal Gardeners moveset

BALANCE

Silent:

• Changed Soup Recipe and Snecko Skull relics: swapped rarities

Defect:

• Nerfed Consuming Shadow card: energy cost increased from 1 -> 2
• Changed Darkness card: upgrade changed from reducing energy cost to 0 -> triggers the passive ability of all Dark orbs twice
• Changed Lightning Rod card: upgrade changed from +1 Block and +1 turn -> +3 Block

Necrobinder:

• Buffed Capture Spirit card: HP loss increased from 4(6) -> 6
• Buffed Carve Ghost card: damage increased from 8(9) -> 10(11)
• Nerfed Cleanse card: Block decreased from 7(10) -> 6(9)
• Nerfed Deathbringer card: Doom decreased from 23(29) -> 21(26)
• Nerfed Flatten card: base damage decreased from 15 -> 5
• Buffed Grave Warden card:
• Block increased from 6(7) -> 7(8)
• Soul added to Discard Pile -> Soul added to Draw Pile
• Nerfed Invoke card: damage decreased from 17(21) -> 15(19)
• Nerfed Severance card: damage decreased from 18(24) -> 16(20)

Regent:

• Buffed Shining Strike card: damage increased from 6(10) -> 7(11)
• Buffed Sword Sage card: required Forges decreased from 4(3) -> 3(2)
• Changed Fencing Manual and Royal Perfume relics: swapped rarities

Colorless Cards:

• Buffed Catastrophe card: damage increased from 10(14) -> 15(20)

Potions & Relics:

• Changed Lattice of Eyes relic: rarity increased from Uncommon -> Rare
• Changed Little Ghost relic: is now a Zlatir blessing
• Changed Tuning Fork relic: rarity decreased from Uncommon -> Common
• Changed Touch of Insanity and Liquid Memories potions: swapped rarities

Ancients:

• Buffed Zlatir's Choice's Paradox relic: now also adds Retain to the chosen card
• Changed Neow's Bell of Twilight relic: no longer gives Gold
• Changed Neow's Mystery Machine relic: now only affects the current map instead of future Acts
• Nerfed Nonupeipe's Beautiful Bracelet relic: Enchants 4 -> 3 cards with Swift

Enemies:

• Changed Axebot:
• Bootup move Block decreased from 20 -> 10 but also gains 1 Strength
• Axebots combat is now a normal pool encounter
• Changed Turret Operator combat: is now an easy pool encounter
• Nerfed Ceremonial Beast: no longer has Regeneration power
• Changed Exoskeletons:
• Enrage move Strength gain increased from 1 -> 2
• Mandibles move damage decreased from 9(11) -> 8(9)
• Skitter move damage changed from 1(2)x3 -> 1x3(4)
• Exoskeletons will now always use Enrage after using Mandibles
• Changed Gremlin Merc: Hehe buff move replaced with a new move that deals 8(9) damage and gains 1 Strength
• Buffed Haunted Ship card: Stomp move now scales with Ascension, from 3x3 -> 3(4)x3
• Buffed Queen: now starts with Torchhead minion instead of spending turn 1 summoning it
• Nerfed Thieving Hopper: Hat Trick move damage decreased from 22(26) -> 21(23)

Events:

• Changed Mad Science event: power option can no longer roll the cost 1 option

Multiplayer:

• Lowered multiplayer enemy scaling across the board
• Buffed Intercept card: Block increased from 6(10) -> 9(13)
• Changed Gloopy Eye relic: now only counts the owner's plays and only grants the owner an extra turn
• Changed Ceremonial Beast: changed how Plow power scales in multiplayer

ART

• Added portrait art for the following Necrobinder cards:
• Bury
• Make Use
• Misery
• Right Hand Hand
• Sculpting strike
• Delay card now uses Ghostly Armor card's portrait art
• Mischief card now uses Twist card's portrait art
• Added beta portrait art for the following cards:
• Focused Strike
• Forgone Conclusion
• Furnace
• Updated art for various renamed relics

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

General:

• Added back Long Press Confirmations option in Settings screen
• Changed banner text to "Extra Turn" when using Gloopy Eye relic
• Disabled Reset Tutorials button in release builds as certain tutorials do not work in certain game progression states
• Unlocks from Epochs that are revealed between saving and loading a climb no longer apply to the loaded climb
• Run history now includes when cards in your deck get downgraded
• Added some tweens when opening the Epoch inspect screen
• Sped up default death screen timing
• Trimmed card titles that overflow into the next column in Run History
• We now include Gold Spent/Lost/Stolen in Run History
• Added controller hotkey to the peek button during combat
• Added controller hotkeys for modifying Ascensions
• After playing a card via controller, the game now navigates to the card nearest to that last one in your hand
• Players can no longer end turn via Y while looking at the Draw Pile
• Decreased trigger sensitivity for controller input
• Monster controller navigation now wraps
• You can no longer back out of card reward screen while inspecting a card via controller hotkeys
• You can now start a run in the character select screen via A button instead of Y

Defect:

• Some Defect-related unlock text is now more accurate and colorful
• Updated Orb text behavior to better match StS1 in color, size, contrast, and positioning

Potions & Relics:

• Dreamcatcher and Traveler's Flask relics now use the same reward screen in the Rest Site
• Regal Pillow relic effect now appears in Rest Site action description

Events:

• Updated event screen text size, padding, and fonts
• Updated Ancient event layout slightly and reduced text size for normal events

Multiplayer:

• Orbs from other players are now smaller and darker
• A warning is now shown if you try to play multiplayer as your first climb
• The "multiplayer is experimental" warning has been removed
• Unlocks now apply to multiplayer, including characters and Epochs
• Player-specific screens (like rewards) use that player's unlock set
• Shared content (like ancients) use a superset of all player's unlocks

WRITING

• Colorized a handful of numbers in relic descriptions
• Colorized text like 2nd and 3rd turn in relic descriptions
• The word "ALL" is now capitalized in card, power, relic, potion, and orb descriptions
• Improved wording for the following cards:
• Convergence
• Evolve
• Hand of Greed
• Order
• Scrawl
• Snowfield
• Stomp
• Stratagem
• Scythe
• Unmoveable
• Deathbringer card
• Fasten
• Hand of Greed
• Improved wording for the following potions:
• Fairy in a Bottle
• Liquid Memories
• Ashwater
• Blessing of the Forge
• Poison POtion
• Power POtion
• Screamer Pod
• Snecko Oil
• Stable Serum
• Improved wording for the following relics:
• Belt Buckle
• Chaotic Plasma
• Glamorous Brooch
• Gloopy Eye
• Golden Ring
• Heart Piece
• Hungering Portrait
• Jewelry Box
• Little Ghost
• Mystery Machine
• Neow's Note
• Old Coin
• Ringing Triangle
• Severed Gill
• Sling of Courage
• Tea of Shame
• Traveler's Flask
• Tuning Fork
• Added placeholder shim for every single relic flavor text
• Improved Slither enchantment's wording
• Changed up dialogue for Bygone Effigy
• Removed unused speech line for Ceremonial Beast
• Cleaned up and added more text around Abyssal Baths event
• Removed Axebots' "Loading..." dialogue
• Removed speech line from Test Subject boss
• Removed dialogues from Spiny Toad and Two Tailed Rats
• Removed Knowledge Demon's dialogue for now
• The Kin priest now speaks less and has different lines
• Updated character descriptions in character select screen
• Updated dialogue for Cultist-related combats
• Updated dialogue for Gremlin Merc encounter
• Updated the Queen boss dialogue
• Updated dialogue for when characters ping during multiplayer
• Renamed the following relics:
• Chainmail Pants -> Chain Links
• Shoehorn -> Parrying Shield
• Heart Piece -> Beating Remnant
• Ice Cube -> Forever Ice
• Nye Essence -> Nye Shroud
• Bucket of Coals -> Heap of Coals
• Cloudy Claw -> Pael's Claw
• Cozy Chair -> Pael's Horn
• Gloopy Eye -> Pael's Eye
• Lattice of Eyes -> White Star
• Royal Perfume -> Lunary Pastry
• Used Notepad -> Stone Cracker
• Traveler's Flask -> Tiny Mailbox
• Broken Mirror -> Funerary Mask
• Illusory Wall -> Ripple Basin
• Starrian Turbine -> Regalite
• Pein Hammer -> Bellows
• Rolling Sphere -> Game Piece
• Amethyst Bangle -> Dingy Rug
• Golden Ring -> Punch Dagger
• Immortal Soul -> Undying Sigil
• Strange Hoof -> Fyshing Float
• Bounty Box -> Booming Conch
• Chaotic Plasma -> Pungent Poultice
• Barnacled Pipe -> Amphorae
• Darleejing Tea -> Red Vine Tea
• Ancient Tea Set -> Venerable Tea Set
• Starry -> The Throne

BUG FIXES

General:

• The start of Act animation is now bypassed in some cases
• Can no longer navigate to Byrdpip via controller
• Fixed an issue where card-value-modifying effects like Strength and Dexterity were being previewed in the player's draw/discard/exhaust piles
• Fixed an issue where certain cards (like Metamorphosis) would instantly move to the Discard or Exhaust pile when played, not giving the player enough time to figure out what was going on
• Fixed an issue where creatures' HP wouldn't appear purple when their Doom was exactly equal to their HP
• Fixed an issue where, if a card with the Echoing enchantment was downgraded by an effect like Magi Knight's Dampen move, it would receive an additional Replay
• Fully-upgraded deck achievement now only considers upgradeable cards
• Map transition now plays when the Flight modifier is applied
• Merchant card removal cost now increases correctly
• Opening relic inspection screen in Merchant shop via controller no longer also opens the map
• Removed blue highlighting in Grab card description
• Underdocks is now unlockable (if you have already met the requirement, it should unlock the next time you defeat any boss)
• Using targeted potions on controller is no longer broken

Defect:

• Fixed softlock when playing Black Beam card

Necrobinder:

• Fetch card now properly applies Strength for extra hits added by Unleash card
• The Formula potion now properly applies to Osty attack cards

Regent:

• Fixed Resonance power not correctly doubling effect gain on cards

Colorless Cards:

• Splash card no longer softlocks if you haven't unlocked any other characters yet

Potions & Relics:

• Buffer power no longer uses up a stack if Tungsten Rod relic reduces HP loss to 0 on its own
• Deprecated relics no longer show up in the Relic Collection
• Hungering Portrait relic no longer exhausts Innate cards on turn 1 unless the entire deck is Innate
• Lidar relic no longer has the Shiv hovertip

Ancients:

• Lasting Candy relic is now correctly considered an Ancient relic
• Mystery Machine relic's ?s and Bell Of Valor Elites now only replace monster rooms

Enemies:

• Owl Magistrate's Scrutinized affliction now properly applies to Statuses and Curses
• Owl Magistrate now uses the card debuff intent for its Scrutiny move

Events:

• Amalgamating Anvil event now excludes Eternal Strikes and Defends from selectable card options
• If you have multiple Lantern Keys, you now remove all of them in the Repy event

Multiplayer:

• Cards that are waiting for player choice no longer look big above the remote player's head
• If you disconnect while a tutorial is on screen, it now goes away