Slay the Spire 2 is the #1 seller on Steam today, above Marathon and Resident Evil Requiem

Slay the Spire 2 is the #1 seller on Steam today, above Marathon and Resident Evil Requiem | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these FPS Hours before its open preview weekend, Marathon is suddenly very close to the top of Steam’s top sellers list RPG It’s only March, but I’m calling it: Esoteric Ebb is 2026’s best RPG and the first worthy successor to Disco Elysium Games The best PC games to play right now Resident Evil Resident Evil Requiem pulls in 270,000 players in just 2 hours on Steam, beating Village, Biohazard and the Resident Evil 4 remake MOBA After deciding to make a MOBA, Quantic Dream also decides to release it at the same time as the Marathon server slam, the first Horizon Hunters Gathering playtest, and the Steam Next Fest Card Game Slay the Spire 2 launch times and release date Resident Evil Capcom’s RE Engine is the gift that keeps on giving: Resident Evil Requiem runs surprisingly well on the Steam Deck Resident Evil Resident Evil Requiem’s 5 million sales have made it one of Capcom’s all-time top 20 bestsellers in just 4 days Games Steam Next Fest’s top demos were packed with gnomeslop hijinks, open world piracy, and vampire card battling, but then—well—Marathon happened Card Game After its disastrous launch last year, I’m here to tell you that 2025’s most promising auto-battler finally lives up to its potential Games The best indie games on PC Life Sim Stardew Valley has basically become the Tolkien of cozy gaming Roguelike This dice-rolling roguelite is like Balatro on steroids, and its bosses are pure evil Card Game If you’ve ever had a crippling Vampire Survivors or Slay the Spire habit, avoid Vampire Crawlers at all costs Games The best laptop games PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!Resident EvilArc RaidersBest PC gearGame Quizzes Games Card Game Slay the Spire 2 Slay the Spire 2 is the #1 seller on Steam today, above Marathon and Resident Evil Requiem News By Tyler Wilde published 5 March 2026 The roguelike deckbuilder sequel is an instant hit. 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter You never know what’s going to happen with sequels to influential indie sensations like Slay the Spire, which inspired a torrent of other roguelike deckbuilders after it released in early access in 2017. Sometimes, the follow-up gets lost in the sea of its own imitators, and doesn’t blow up like the first one.Not this time. Slay the Spire 2 released in early access today, and immediately shot to the top of Steam’s top sellers list: It’s #1 globally, above Marathon. In the early evening here in North America, it’s also fourth right now for concurrent players, with a first-day peak of 177,362.I put about an hour into it earlier today, and yeah, it immediately got its hooks in me. From what I’ve seen so far, it is a classic ‘more of what you already liked’ kind of sequel: Same format, same basic design, but new enemies, new cards and effects, new artifacts, and so on. You may like Slay the Spire gets the best Christmas present a deckbuilder could ask for: a new all-time concurrent player peak on Steam nearly 7 years after release Surprise: Slay the Spire 2 is bringing 4-player co-op when it hits early access on March 6 Slay the Spire 2 launch times and release date One cool new thing I encountered on my first run—which I’ve paused to write this, I just cleared the second boss—was an egg which I had to hold onto until I got to a campsite, where I could hatch it. My reward was a special card, but even better than that, a cool bird dude who hangs out next to me during battles. I love that dude. I’ll die for that dude. Check out my bird dude. He Swoops. (Image credit: Mega Crit)The one really big new feature in Slay the Spire 2 is four-player co-op, and I’ve been too invested in my current run to investigate it—we’ll give it a go soon and report back.You never know what’s going to be a hit these days, but clearly I was wrong to wonder whether Slay the Spire’s original audience had moved on. The world wants to slay that spire again. According to Newzoo data, the original Slay the Spire reached a five-year high for monthly active users on Steam in January at 658,000 (in 37 markets), suggesting that loads of players were revisiting the original in anticipation of the sequel.If