January 22, 2026

STS2 Patch Notes — 2026-01-22

STS2 Patch Notes — 2026-01-22

This week's patch is a smaller one due to MLK day this past Monday, but the highlights include a few balance changes, new card art, and various UI improvements!

CONTENT

General

  • Temporarily removed some achievements as they will be disabled for early access

Defect

  • Reworked Junk Ball card back into Barrage from StS1

Regent

  • Reworked The Sealed Throne card

Events

  • Reworked Reflections event

BALANCE

Silent

  • Changed Murder card: upgrade changed from increased damage -> Energy cost reduced by 1
  • Changed Poison Neow Bundle: replaced Haze card -> Deadly Poison

Defect

  • Nerfed Flak Cannon card: Energy cost increased from 1 -> 2

Necrobinder

  • Changed Bodyguard card:
- Energy cost increased from 1 -> 2

- Summon increased from 4 -> 8(12)

  • Nerfed Spirit of Ash card: Block gain decreased from 5(7) -> 4(6)

Regent

  • Changed Glow card:
- Card draw increased from 1(2) -> 2(2)

- Star gain decreased from 2(2) -> 1(2)

  • Buffed Heirloom Hammer card: damage increased from 15(20) -> 17(22)

Potions & Relics

  • Changed Hourglass relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
  • Changed Pendulum relic: rarity decreased from Uncommon -> Common
  • Buffed Parrying Shield relic: Block requirement decreased from 15 -> 10
  • Buffed Ripple Basin relic: Block gain increased from 3 -> 4
  • Changed White Beast Statue relic: added to the list of relics that can not spawn at the last treasure chest or later

Enemies

  • Buffed Corpse Slugs: HP increased from 21(23)-23(25) -> 25(27)-27(29)
  • Buffed Infested Prism:
- Now also gains 12 Block on its Strength gain turn

- Radiate move damage and Block gain increased from 12(13) -> 14(16)

  • Changed Test Subject:
- Phase 1's Skull Bash move damage decreased from 16(18) -> 14(16) and Vulnerable applied decreased from 2 -> 1

- Phase 2 now starts with Multi Claw move instead of Pounce

- Phase 3 now applies Intangible at end of turn instead of start

  • Changed normal Toadpoles encounter: replaced Seapunk -> Calcified Cultist

Ancients

  • Buffed Tezcatara's Brightest Flame card: Energy gain increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
  • Buffed Tezcatara's Golden Compass relic: added ? rooms before the first Treasure Chest and after the second Treasure Chest, making it 2 nodes longer than the typical Act 2 length
  • Changed Neow's Golden Pearl relic: changed back from gaining 50 Gold upon entering Shop rooms -> immediately obtain 150 Gold

Events

  • Changed Waterlogged Scriptorium event: now has a 65 Gold spawn requirement

ART

  • Added portrait art for the following cards:
- Believe in You

- Huddle Up

- Intercept

- Tag Team

- Energy Surge

- Updated the portrait art for Necrobinder and Silent's Defend cards and Silent's Strike card

USER INTERFACE + EXPERIENCE

  • Added new asset for locked relics and cards in Compendium
  • Updated a handful of Run History icons
  • Updated all Ancient and boss icons to make their asset size and outline consistent (not final)
  • Updated character icon asset size to 85x85
  • Necrobinder's character icon no longer has flaming VFX, sorry
  • Added a header to Daily leaderboards + updated score UI
  • Updated Custom Run and Daily Run screen text and UI elements
  • Added a nicer scrollbar to the patch notes screen
  • Added scrolling via mouse drag + mouse wheel for Bestiary monster list
  • Patch notes screen now uses the same scrolling behavior as the other screens
  • Added mulitplayer card filter to Card Library
  • The speaker icon for Ancient dialogues now has an outline for better contrast
  • Updated achievement screen border and lock assets
  • Updated modifiers list in custom runs screen to be more compact
  • Updated patch notes button icon in main menu

AUDIO

  • Added ambient background music for Neow
  • Added Osty Summon SFX
  • Updated Doom kill SFX

WRITING

  • Updated Nonupeipe's epithet
  • Updated dialogue for all Ancients
  • Fixed some title casing errors

BUG FIXES

General

  • Fixed crash when entering Overgrowth rest site
  • Fixed crash when accessing disposed UI controls in relic navigation
  • Fixed "elites killed" filed in Game Over including the elite that killed you
  • Fixed being able to grab cards as they were animating from your draw pile to your hand
  • Fixed Card Library showing the cards from your previous filter settings when reopening
  • Fixed controller navigation not working on inspect Epoch screen
  • Fixed Timeline having a "back" button when you have not yet revealed Neow

Ironclad

  • Fixed Grapple power not showing on player when applied

Silent

  • Fixed Strangle card being considered a "Strike" card

Enemies

  • Test Subject's Phase 3 now takes full Poison damage on non-Intangible turns

Events

  • Fixed Wongos Mystery Ticket relic count not matching its description in the Welcome to Wongo's event

Multiplayer

  • Fixed Smoggy power affecting Skill cards generated by Skill Potion if another player already played a Skill
  • Fixed Tangled power making Attacks cost an extra Energy for each player

PERFORMANCE

  • Reduced memory usage from crash reporting
All Patches
Newer → 2026-01-29