6 on Steam’s global Top Sellers chart. Zero user reviews. That’s the Slay the Spire Collection, priced at C$58.48, sitting comfortably ahead of titles drowning in player feedback. Not a glitch — a revenue chart doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Steam’s Top Sellers list ranks by revenue, not engagement. A C$58.48 bundle needs a fraction of the buyer count that a $15 game requires to chart in the same position. Multiply a premium price point by the gravitational pull of Slay the Spire 2’s monstrous launch, and you get a reviewless product cracking the global top ten on spending alone.

The mechanics are straightforward. Bundles on Steam are separate product listings that don’t inherit reviews from the individual games they contain. Slay the Spire 2, which entered early access in March 2026, sold over 3 million copies in its first week according to developer Mega Crit. It peaked at 574,638 concurrent players according to SteamDB data reported by GamesIndustry.biz — nearly matching Hollow Knight: Silksong’s 2025 record of 587,150. The demand is enormous. The collection simply funnels it through a SKU that Steam’s review system treats as brand new and untested.

The anomaly is worth sitting with. Steam’s bestseller chart rewards spending, not conversation. A product with literally zero community feedback can rank alongside the most-discussed games on the platform because enough people opened their wallets at a high enough price. Reviews are how players talk to each other. Revenue is how Valve ranks the conversation.

Mega Crit expects Slay the Spire 2 to remain in early access for one to two years but says the game already contains more content than the original, according to PC Gamer. The original Slay the Spire hit a five-year high of 658,000 monthly active users on Steam in January, per Newzoo data — players were clearly circling back ahead of the sequel. At 3 million copies sold in seven days, nobody is waiting for a 1.0 label.

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