38 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 13 hours and 110 hours
84% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
97% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
97% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
97% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
97% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
98% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
98% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
99% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
98% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Slay the Spire hold up?
It holds steady: between 97% and 99% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
How long would it take you?
Your Steam profile link or name: where you are in Slay the Spire, and how long the rest is at your own pace. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
@testuser1 holds this page
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
Is Slay the Spire worth it?
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Slay the Spire
- Steam list price, US
- $24.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 38 h
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
- 98%recommend it once the refund window has closed
- 97–99%at every stage past two hours: it holds steady
- 18 of 119Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it
Do the first two hours of Slay the Spire tell you?
In the first two hours84%recommend it
After that98%recommend it
18 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.
1% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 84% of those recommend it. After the window, 98% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 91% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 21 hours in.
Slay the Spire holds up

Holds up
At least 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500+ hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site.
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/slay-the-spire#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/slay-the-spire/seal/holds-up.png" width="160" height="160" alt="Slay the Spire: Holds up. At least 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 500+ hours played."></a>Did everyone who owns Slay the Spire play it?
18 of 119
Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it
How well is Slay the Spire remembered?
1 in 7
Name 100 runs say its name, 13% of them: players asked to name 100 games from memory.
How this page counts
- The hours
- Half of its Steam reviewers had played 38 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 13 hours and 110 hours. One bead is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 220,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
- The price
- At Steam's US list price of $24.99, the typical player's 38 hours come to 66¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 98% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat.
- Everyone's copy
- Counted from the Steam libraries read here, not from all of Steam's players.