{"id":327174,"date":"2026-05-01T03:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=327174"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:38:14","slug":"slay-the-spire-2-is-implausible-so-why-is-it-being-review-bombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/slay-the-spire-2-is-implausible-so-why-is-it-being-review-bombed\/","title":{"rendered":"Slay The Spire 2 Is Implausible, So Why Is It Being Review-Bombed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started playing Slay the Spire 2 shortly after my colleague wrote up a chunk on how its phenomenal multiplayer makes it an early game of the 12 months contender. Inside an hour of starting it, I, too, was utterly hooked. Within the time since, I even have poured a whopping 40 hours into Slay the Spire 2, yet even after sinking that much time into the sport, I am unable to recover from it. I am keen on how fast-paced, strategic, and immensely satisfying it&#8217;s, no matter in the event you&#8217;re playing solo or with friends. And that first time I hit the Spire and have become aware of the greater gimmick at play? That is definitely one in every of my favorite gaming moments of 2026 to date.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, my positive experience with the sport and my colleague&#8217;s glowing words fail to reflect how Slay the Spire 2 is being received on Steam without delay. Though we (and hundreds upon hundreds of others) are thrilled with Mega Crit&#8217;s latest deck-builder, the sport&#8217;s Steam listing states its reviews are &#8220;Mostly Negative.&#8221; So, what is going on on here?<\/p>\n<p>For the past month, Slay the Spire 2 has been subject to relentless review-bombing. Whereas the sport sat at an <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/slay-the-spire-2-steam-review-bomb-balance-patch-prepared-doormaker-2000680603\">&#8220;Overwhelming Positive&#8221; rating back in mid-March<\/a>, with 97% of players recommending it to others, it&#8217;s now listed as &#8220;Mostly Negative,&#8221; with 39% of its roughly 55,000 reviews within the last 30 days being unfavorable. Yet things get more intriguing while you take a look at where these negative reviews come from.<\/p>\n<p>Proceed Reading at GameSpot<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started playing Slay the Spire 2 shortly after my colleague wrote up a chunk on how its phenomenal multiplayer makes it an early game of the 12 months contender. Inside an hour of starting it, I, too, was utterly hooked. Within the time since, I even have poured a whopping 40 hours into Slay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[10333,51213,24106,48617],"class_list":["post-327174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-fantastic","tag-reviewbombed","tag-slay","tag-spire"],"aioseo_notices":[{"message":"The permalink for this post just changed! This could result in 404 errors for your site visitors.","status":"warning","options":{"id":"0a2ae5f84bc2c0423042ed7ec22d2e40","isDismissible":true,"actions":[{"url":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/wp-admin\/admin.php?page=aioseo-redirects","label":"Add Redirect to improve SEO","class":"aioseo-redirects-slug-changed"}]},"allowedContexts":["posts"]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327177,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327174\/revisions\/327177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}