{"id":461457,"date":"2026-03-06T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461457\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:58:10","slug":"slay-the-spire-2s-launch-has-been-so-incredibly-successful-the-studio-had-to-apologise-for-a-joke-about-marathon-that-now-seems-a-bit-meaner-than-it-was-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/461457\/","title":{"rendered":"Slay the Spire 2’s launch has been so incredibly successful, the studio had to apologise for a joke about Marathon that now “seems a bit meaner than it was intended”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mega Crit co-founder and developer behind hit indie release Slay the Spire<\/a> 2 Casey Yano has admitted a congratulations post to the Marathon development team “seems a bit meaner than it was intended”, as they never thought Slay the Spire 2 would pass Bungie’s new extraction shooter in Steam concurrent users.<\/p>\n

Both Slay the Spire 2 and Marathon launched on Steam at the same time, leading to an unavoidable bit of friendly competition between the two releases. In a bit of tongue-in-cheek support, the Mega Crit X account posted<\/a>: “Congratulations to the Marathon team on their launch! Don’t let small indie passion projects like this pass you by just because Slay the Spire 2 is out”<\/p>\n

It turns out the power of small indie projects is nothing to sneeze at. During the launch day for both games, Marathon brought in a respectable peak of 88,337 concurrent players. Meanwhile, Slay the Spire 2 dropped an absurd 430,456 concurrent players. It is obviously worth noting that Slay the Spire 2 is only launching on PC, while Marathon has both the PS5 and Xbox Series X\/S audience to appeal to, but nonetheless it’s a funny side-by-side.<\/p>\n

With this context in mind, Yano shared their thoughts on the friendly jab on their personal social media account<\/a>: “This seems a bit meaner than it was intended…. To be fair I didn’t think we’d actually pass Marathon in concurrent users”.<\/p>\n

It is a stunning success story for Mega Crit and Slay the Spire. The original game is a fantastic experience<\/a> that won over a die-hard crowd of fans and enthusiasts over the years, which appears to have generated enough word of mouth to result in an absolutely scorcher of a release in an already packed month of big launches. It remains enormously tough out there for developers these days – but when they hit, indies in particular do seem to keep hitting incredibly hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mega Crit co-founder and developer behind hit indie release Slay the Spire 2 Casey Yano has admitted a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-461457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}