Mega Crit released Slay the Spire 2’s v0.113.0 to Steam’s public-beta branch on November 12, calling it the game’s biggest update yet and saying its substantial new content needs testing before reaching the main branch.

The update’s headline addition is The Fool, the first new character of the game’s Early Access period; the character brings the roster to six.

A bow-wielding bard, The Fool uses tarot cards for powerful effects, including cards that deal damage based on floors traveled or automatically play another card.

Mega Crit cautioned that The Fool’s content and balance could change substantially before the character reaches the main branch.

The update also adds Blitz, a faster, deckbuilding-focused mode that removes the map and meaningful use for gold; it unlocks after completing an Ascension run and offers five Ascension levels shared across characters.

Dread adds a tougher challenge for players who have reached Ascension 10 with every character, applying Ascension modifiers while strengthening enemies and adding curses as a run progresses.

Beyond the new character and modes, the patch adds five events and three event cards, adjusts characters, enemies and bosses, and moves Rest Sites one floor earlier in each Act.

It also brings interface and quality-of-life improvements, new art and audio, performance optimizations, and fixes spanning gameplay, saved runs, controllers and multiplayer.

Players can access the beta by selecting the public-beta branch in Slay the Spire 2’s Steam properties under Game Versions & Betas; the main branch has received the content and changes from the previous beta.

Early player reactions called The Fool and its tarot cards overpowered, with some saying the character made runs unusually easy and predicting nerfs.

The large patch fits Mega Crit’s previously announced shift toward a slower update schedule focused on bigger releases; Slay the Spire 2 entered Early Access on March 5, 2026, for Windows, Mac and Linux.