{"id":77105,"date":"2026-04-30T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77105"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:36:31","slug":"slay-the-spire-2-is-fantastic-so-why-is-it-being-review-bombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77105","title":{"rendered":"Slay The Spire 2 Is Fantastic, So Why Is It Being Review-Bombed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I began playing Slay the Spire 2<\/a> shortly after my colleague wrote up a piece on how its phenomenal multiplayer makes it an early game of the year contender<\/a>. Within an hour of starting it, I, too, was utterly hooked. In the time since, I have poured a whopping 40 hours into Slay the Spire 2, yet even after sinking that much time into the game, I can’t get over it. I adore how fast-paced, strategic, and immensely satisfying it is, regardless of if you’re playing solo or with friends. And that first time I hit the Spire and became aware of the greater gimmick at play? That’s definitely one of my favorite gaming moments of 2026 thus far.<\/p>\n

However, my positive experience with the game and my colleague’s glowing words fail to reflect how Slay the Spire 2 is being received on Steam right now. Though we (and thousands upon thousands of others) are thrilled with Mega Crit’s latest deck-builder, the game’s Steam listing states its reviews are “Mostly Negative.” So, what’s going on here?<\/p>\n

For the past month, Slay the Spire 2 has been subject to relentless review-bombing<\/a>. Whereas the game sat at an “Overwhelming Positive” rating back in mid-March<\/a>,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I began playing Slay the Spire 2 shortly after my colleague wrote up a piece on how its phenomenal multiplayer makes it an early game of the year contender. Within an hour of starting it, I, too, was utterly hooked. In the time since, I have poured a whopping 40 hours into Slay the Spire…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":77107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77108,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77105\/revisions\/77108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}