STS2 Patch Notes — 2026-02-26

It's the last weekly patch before Slay the Spire 2's Early Access launch!! Thank you to all of our playtesters who have helped get us to this point. Your feedback has been invaluable! These notes are mostly some slight balance adjustments, bug fixes, and visual polish. We're almost to the next stage of StS2's evolution!!

CONTENT

• Achievements have been temporarily disabled for Early Access

BALANCE

Necrobinder

• Nerfed Flatten card: damage decreased from 14(18) -> 12(16)

Potions & Relics

• Changed Paper Krane and Tingsha relics: rarities swapped
• Changed Razor Tooth relic: now only upgrades Attacks and Skills

Enemies

• Buffed Seapunk:

- Sea Kick move damage increased from 9(10) -> 11(12)

- Strength gain now scales with Ascension from 1(1) -> 1(2)

• Nerfed Test Subject: Phase 3 Lacerate damage decreased from 11(12) -> 10(11)
• Changed Thieving Hopper: is now pickier about the cards he steals

- He will only steal cards that are in your deck (meaning no cards generated in combat)

- He will try NOT to steal any cards with the Imbued enchantment unless he has no other choices

- His card rarity priority order is as follows:

- Priority 1: Uncommon cards

- Priority 2: Common, Rare, or Event cards

- Priority 3: Basic or Quest cards

- Priority 4: Ancient cards or cards with the Imbued enchantment

- Priority 5: Anything else (in practice, this should only ever be Curses)

Enemies

• Changed Tinker Time event: now randomly offers 2 out of the possible 3 options for card type and effect

ART

• Added portrait art for Neow's Fury and Wish cards
• Added new Nibbit Hiss animation
• Added Living Shield attack animation
• Added Shiv throw animation
• Added Wormy Impact VFX
• Added Gaseous Screen VFX
• Improved the resolution of the characters in the shop
• Added Main Menu art for Bestiary, Relic Collection, Potion Lab, Join, Host, Load from save, and Abandon Run

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE

General:

• Hovertips are now blocked while you are in targeting mode
• Players can now close combat hotkeys with the same hotkey they opened them with
• Prevented other hovertips from popping up while the potion selection hovertip is open

Multiplayer:

• Ascension icon fire is now blue in multiplayer
• Corrected remote mouse focus when remote player is using controller

AUDIO

• Added Sewer Clam SFX
• Updated Main Menu background music to fade out in Timeline
• Updated Orb SFX

WRITING

• Added more translations for various languages

BUG FIXES

General

• Fixed aspect ratio dropdown menu
• Exiting/re-entering Custom Run screen with a seed now correctly uses the seed
• Feedback screen now changes text when language is changed
• Fixed 16:10 aspect ratio messing up settings alignment
• Fixed mouse jumping to wrong position during screen transitions in windowed mode
• Fixed being able to start card targeting via numpad after combat ends
• Fixed Timeline scroll still dragging after player would unlock an Epoch
• If players go back to an event room after they already hit Proceed, the Proceed button is no longer disabled

Necrobinder

• Fixed an issue where Melancholy card's cost reduction would persist between combats if the reduction was due to Osty dying

Enemies

• Fixed an issue where Skulking Colony encounter was appearing in the Run History as Mad Crab
• Killing Doormaker with the kill all console command no longer causes a softlock
• Killing the last non-minion enemy with Thorns while it's attacking and summoning a minion in the same move (such as Fabricator) now properly ends combat

Ancients

• Fixed some Yummy Cookie relic display bugs

Events

• Fixed Crystal Sphere event card reward icons not showing the correct card rarity icon in the rewards screen

Multiplayer

• Extra votes are no longer displayed when players are dead
• Fixed orange color getting stuck in multiplayer HP bars
• Hands in multiplayer treasure screen now correctly point at relics