Slay the Spire 2 beta patch v0.113.0 adds The Fool and two new modes

Mega Crit put version v0.113.0 of Slay the Spire 2 on the beta branch on November 12, 2026. It adds The Fool, which the studio calls the "first new character for Early Access", and two new game modes, Blitz and Dread. In its patch notes, Mega Crit calls it "the biggest (beta) patch yet"; GamesRadar uses the same framing in its headline.

The content is beta-only for now. Players opt in via Properties, Game Versions & Betas and the public-beta branch in their Steam library. The main branch only receives the content of the previous beta, v0.111.0, so The Fool and the new modes do not appear there yet.

What the patch adds

Mega Crit describes The Fool as a musician who wields a bow. Notebookcheck lists the starting setup: 77 HP and a unique card, Foolish Shot, which costs 1 energy and fires an arrow for 15 damage. The arrow leaves the enemy impaled, and cards that need it stay locked until that enemy has been hit three times or killed. PCGamesN explains that cards with Wah, Cho or Ki in their names activate a matching Melody for the turn, and Notebookcheck mentions a rare power, Mythic Form, that adds a random Tarot card. The studio expects "a great number of content and balance changes" before the character moves to the main branch.

Blitz is a condensed, deckbuilding-focused mode: no map, Gold no longer matters and the Merchant's stock is different. According to PCGamesN, runs open with a pick of three cards from ten and have four encounters per Act. Blitz has five Ascension levels shared across characters and unlocks after any completed Ascension run. Dread is for players who have reached Ascension 10 on every character, The Fool included: all Ascension modifiers are on, bosses are stronger and buff the enemies in their Act, and curses pile up. Notebookcheck reports that co-founder Casey Yano confirmed both modes work in single-player and multiplayer. Rest sites can also now appear one floor earlier in every act.

Reaction and numbers

Kotaku calls the Fool "super fun" and notes that the character can generate Tarot cards of other characters, including the Hermit. Kotaku reads this as a hint that the Hermit or the Watcher could follow, which is its own interpretation, not an announcement.

On Steam, 952 new reviews arrived in the last 42 hours, a pace of 544 a day against 111 a day before. The overall rating stays Mixed at 61 percent positive across 209,420 reviews. On November 14 at 11:41 UTC, 154,978 people were playing, with a daily peak of 223,918, eighth on Steam's current players chart. The game sits at fifth place in the US top sellers.

Slay the Spire 2 currently costs $19.99, 20 percent off the regular $24.99. It remains in Early Access. In an earlier Steam post, Mega Crit named experimental modes, an alternate Act 2 and a new character as active work and warned that updates would come further apart for a while; the alternate Act 2 is not among this patch's headline additions. Kotaku reports Yano keeps the roadmap vague on purpose to avoid deadlines, and PCGamesN expects the full release most likely in 2027. Anyone returning for The Fool needs to switch to the beta branch and expect ongoing changes.