Comedy tends to land better when you punch up rather than punch down—but what about when, as you begin to wind up your punch, you go from a highly anticipated indie to the #1 best selling game on Steam, bypassing the likes of Resident Evil Requiem and Marathon? Mega Crit, developers of Slay the Spire 2, found out exactly what that's like this week.

If you missed it, the studio put out a post on X last Thursday that reads, "Congratulations to the Marathon team on their launch! Don't let small indie passion projects like this pass you by just because Slay the Spire 2 is out." Cheeky, but a follow-up from the same day clarifies "it wasn't supposed to be shade, we were being sarcastic