Slay the Spire
Mega Crit
Slay the Spire is a roguelike deckbuilder: you climb a three-act spire, fight turn-based battles with a small deck, and pick one new card after each fight.
What kind of game is it?
Turn-based card combat on a branching map. Each character starts with a weak deck; after every fight you choose one of three cards, and relics change the rules for the rest of the run. Enemies show their next move, so each turn is a small puzzle about how much to block and how much to hit.
Who is it for?
For players who enjoy deciding which card to skip as much as which card to take.
- Loop
- Building a deck
- Sessions
- Medium sessions
- Progression
- Unlocks between runs
- Players
- Single-player
- Structure
- Roguelike
- Tone
- Tense · Challenging
Game DNA
What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.
- Progression62
Estimate
- Social18
Estimate
Key Steam facts
Steam store figures, checked 26 Sept 2026.
2019-01-23
Checked 26 Sept 2026.
Steam positive percent.
Checked 26 Sept 2026.
Checked 26 Sept 2026.
How many people play Slay the Spire?
Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.
Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.
Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.
Peak that month: 11,197.
Half of 299 recent reviewers played 13.5–59 h. 1% under 2 h.
Players over time
Where the players are
Languages of the last 299 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.
- Simplified Chinese42%
- English38%
- Korean4%
- Portuguese (Brazil)3%
- Spanish (Spain)2%
- Russian2%
Slay the Spire players also play
Games played for more than an hour in 41 public Steam libraries of recent reviewers. Each one is played by at least 4 of these players and is more common here than across all libraries we read (× how much).
- Rusty Lake: Roots10% · ×17.3
- Celeste20% · ×3.7
- It Takes Two24% · ×2.8
- The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante10% · ×12.2
- Furi10% · ×10.3
- Hotline Miami22% · ×2.6
- Starbound17% · ×3.4
- ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights10% · ×8.2
- Slay the Spire 217% · ×3.3
- Stacklands10% · ×7.4
Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026
What makes it different?
Enemies announce their intent before every turn, so a fight is solved with the information on the screen. Four characters play like four different card games, and twenty Ascension levels make each new climb harder once the first one is beaten.
Core mechanics
How it scores
The fantasy: Optimization and Mastery. Our scores out of 100, separate from Steam reviews.
Similar games
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Related games
Nearby games. Not always a direct substitute.
Genre / subgenre
Subgenres: Roguelike deckbuilder.
Steam genre: Indie / Strategy.
Related rankings
Store price checked 26 Sept 2026.
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