Imagine a second, alternate version of our world. Everything is the same, on the surface. The sky is blue, the economy is in shambles; it’s the unnatural order of things. And yet, you cannot help but feel something is different. Like there’s something missing, or perhaps replaced. Ah, there it is – Slay the Spire 2 is not a game that even remotely exists. As it turns out, this world, our world, where the roguelike called Slay the Spire 2 does, or rather will, exist, is only the world we exist in thanks to the flip of a coin.

This, I would like to be clear, is not a joke. “We had been working on a bunch of tiny projects, little prototypes, and were having fun but said ‘okay, let’s get together again,'” explained Mega Crit co-founder Anthony Giovannetti told PC Gamer in a recent interview. Apparently this was during Covid, and both Giovannetti and Casey Yano were looking for their next proper project.

According to Giovannetti, a Slay the Spire sequel wasn’t the only idea they had. “We had different paths we could work on,” he explained. “One was a completely different project, and one was the sequel. I thought there were some interesting design challenges to work on a sequel with. We ended up flipping a coin, actually, and Slay the Spire 2 won out. So we started working on it, and the rest is history.”

The coin flip itself isn’t something Giovannetti witnessed first hand, it was Yano that did it over a Discord call, which the former notes was “maybe questionable,” but he still believes he was told “true result. I think Casey would’ve massively preferred the coin went the other way, because I was always the card game person, and he was the action game person.”

There is nothing more joyful, to me, than seeing the creator of a thing engage in an exercise that is so directly tied to the kind of thing that they make. In this case, it is Mega Crit playing with that fickle game called chance, in the hopes that it will work out, that they will, if they’re lucky enough, slay the spire. But maybe don’t do this if you aren’t literally the folks who made Slay the Spire, this isn’t a point in history to be taking unnecessary risks.

Slay the Spire 2 is currently slated for release on a “secret Thursday” in March 2026, where you’ll be able to play it in early access. You can wishlist it on Steam here.