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MegaCrit Takes a Jab at Marathon as Slay the Spire 2 Has a Massive Launch With Over 420K Concurrent Players on Steam

Title screen featuring 'Slay the Spire II' with a large caption saying 'MARATHON' at the bottom.

Yesterday, two major titles were released at the same time on Steam (and one of them also launched on PS5 and Xbox Series). Bungie’s new extraction shooter, Marathon, and indie developer MegaCrit’s highly anticipated sequel to its beloved rougelike deckbuilder, Slay the Spire 2. When both games launched – as X (formerly Twitter) user Wario64 noted – their launch numbers for concurrent player counts on Steam were actually hand in hand, with both games reaching 80K+ concurrent players. Marathon would continue to peak at 88,337 concurrent players. Slay the Spire 2, on the other hand, was just getting started. At […]

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