Slay the Spire 2 Beta Patch Notes - v0.105.0 (8th May 2026)

Defect:

• Buffed Infused Core relic: now also gains "Lighting Orbs deal 1 additional damage."
• Buffed Hyperbeam: damage increased from 26(34) -> 28(36)
• Buffed Shatter card: now Evokes all of your Orbs twice
• Buffed Tesla Coil+ card: damage decreased from 6 -> 4, but Lightning Triggers increased from once -> twice
• Buffed Uproar card: damage increased from 5(7) -> 6(8)

Colorless Cards:

• Buffed Gold Axe card: in multiplayer, now deals damage equal to the number of cards played by ALL players, not just cards played by its owner

Enemies:

• Reworked Doormaker to a new boss, Aeonglass
• Changed Fossil Stalker: in multiplayer, now gains a set amount of Strength if it hits any player, instead of gaining Strength for each player hit
• Changed Haunted Ship: now applies 3 Weak on Turn 1 instead of applying Weak when it attacks
• Buffed Soul Fysh: Scream move damage increased from 11(12) -> 13(15)

Ancients:

• Reworked Tezcatara's Pumpkin Candle relic
• Old: "Gain 1 Energy at the start of each turn. Extinguishes at the start of Act 3."
• New: "Gain 1 Energy at the start of each turn. Extinguishes after 5 combats. Can be Kindled at rest sites."

• Kaleidoscope (temp name) - "Upon pickup, gain 2 card rewards with cards from other characters."
• Fishing Rod - "Every 3 normal combats, Upgrade a random card in your Deck."
• Silken Tress - "Enchant all cards in the first card reward with Glam."

Events:

• Something special now happens if you have multiple Lantern Key cards (doesn't apply to multiplayer)

ART:

• Added art for Friendship Epoch
• Added new power art for Smoggy
• Added multi-hit animation for Corpse Slug
• Added unstun animation for Rock Bowlbug
• Tweaked Vantom explosion to look right on shrunken Vantom
• Added a phobia mode alternate portrait for the Zen Weaver event

USER INTERFACE & EXPERIENCE:

• Limited the total number of cards rendered when playing the Clone animation at a rest site to 15
• Added translation issue dropdown option to the in-game feedback form
• Outline darkness of continue button now matches the next dialogue arrow
• Adjusted Gremlin Mercenary combat enemy hitboxes, speech bubble, and intent positions
• Skulking Colony's health bar now changes color to indicate that it cannot take any more damage this turn
• When hovering over stale dialogues at Ancients, all of the dialogues will become opaque instead of just the one currently being hovered over
• Added a more informative error popup for Steam BadCert error in multiplayer
• If you move a current_run.save with a modded character in it back to unmodded, you get an error instead of a black screen

WRITING:

• Reworded Axebot death message to reflect that there is only 1 of them now
• Added more translated text for various languages
• Fixed translation errors in:
• German
• Latin American Spanish
• Castilian Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Japanese
• Polish
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Thai
• Turkish

AUDIO:

• Added Soul Fysh background music
• Added Kaiser Crab background music
• Added Kaiser Crab SFX
• Added hyper beam SFX

BUG FIXES:

General:

• Fixed save files being lost or corrupted after a PC crash, blue screen, or power outage
• Fixed black screen softlock when Steam would disconnect during room transitions
• Fixed the Sealed Deck modifier not being affected by the multi-character card modifiers
• Night Terrors modifier can no longer kill you
• The Perfect badge is no longer awarded if you abandon run at a boss
• Fixed being unable to navigate off of top bar in shop room
• Fixed being unable to controller navigate through rest site options when player has 2 rows of relics
• Fixed controller navigation in shop if you buy out all relics and colorless cards
• The game no longer rapidly switches between "Controller Detected" and "Mouse Detected" when playing with a controller
• Fixed being able to start a single player run via controller while the Ascension tutorial was open
• Fixed potion hovertip not appearing if you press "b" in the potion popup screen
• Fixed errors in input settings for new keybindings added after saving
• Fixed rare problem where feedback screen is stuck open on game launch
• Fixed rare softlock when playing Compact with status cards in hand
• Fixed softlock after the popup about shuffling in the tutorial
• Fixed Steam cloud sync errors when syncing many run history files
• Fixed duplicate files appearing in run history after Steam cloud sync
• Restored the default rendering backend to D3D12 for Intel 620 GPUs
• Fixed audio staying muted after pressing volume keys or alt-tabbing on Linux
• Fixed crash on Linux when ICU libraries are unavailable

Ironclad:

• To avoid softlocking after setting up an infinite loop (i.e. Hellraiser + 2 Pommel Strike cards), Hellraiser will only play 9 cards per turn if all enemies have infinite HP
• Hellraiser card now properly plays cards containing "Strike" against enemies with infinite HP

Silent:

• Fixed Fan of Knives card VFX not playing

Regent:

• Fixed not being able to select cards with controller when you choose all the cards in your hand via GUARDS!!! card

Necrobinder:

• Fixed Fetch card not glowing gold if it is drawn by Gambling Chip relic
• Fixed Enfeebling Touch power causing Ceremonial Beast to gain Strength after you stun it

Colorless Cards:

• Fixed VFX sometimes failing to appear during Rolling Boulder power effect

Potions & Relics:

• Players are now disallowed from throwing the Foul Potion if the Merchant inventory is open
• Using Foul Potion on the Merchant no longer freezes the game on controller
• Bookmark relic is now able to properly apply its cost-reduction effect to a card that has been retained by a "Retain your Hand" effect like Equilibrium card
• Fixed Beetle Juice potion causing Vantom's tail to become visibly cut off
• If the player has The Boot relic and deals Skulking Colony 1-4 damage, they now properly take 5 damage

Ancients:

• Fixed issue where the top of the next dialogue bubble was slightly visible before it would animate in at Ancients
• Fixed being able to navigate back to Neow's blessing options while looking at the Card Library
• Fixed card inspection button blocking "accept" hotkey when looking at the Pandora's Box relic card view screen
• Fixed issue where playing Wish card via controller would immediately select a card in the grid on the same button press

Enemies:

• Fixed Kaiser Crab appearing if you load into an already completed boss room
• Recentered Axebot in fight so it looks like there is supposed to be only one of them
• Fixed a softlock that occurred if the player set up an infinite against Skulking Colony

Multiplayer:

• Fixed player names with brackets (e.g. clan tags like ) causing errors in multiplayer
• Fixed state divergence related to Mad Science, Juggling, and mixed combat speeds
• Fixed Strangle power proccing off of other player's card plays
• Fixed occasional black screen when loading into a saved multiplayer combat
• Fixed occasional state divergence caused by Stampede + Headbutt cards
• Other players' HP bars no longer go offscreen when resizing the window while in settings
• Disallow War Historian Repy duplicate Lantern Key card bonus if you are in multiplayer