Slay The Spire 2 Console Commands: How To Cheat Fate And Break The Game

If you have finally hit your breaking point with the ruthless RNG of the spire, it is time to stop playing fair and start rewriting the rules.

Slay the Spire 2 is a masterpiece of balance and consequence, but sometimes the game just decides you are going to lose. You draft the perfect synergy, carefully path around dangerous elites, and then the boss decides to hand you a fistful of curses while hitting you for eighty damage. I have been there. I have stared at a completely unwinnable hand on high ascension runs and felt my soul leave my body. Sometimes, you do not want to learn from your mistakes. Sometimes, you just want to press a button and instantly atomize the enemy in front of you.

That is where the developer console comes in. This is the tool the playtesters use to break the game, test mechanics, and skip tedious grinds. Mega Crit disabled this feature for the retail launch, meaning you cannot just hit a key to become a god out of the box. You have to get your hands dirty with a little file modification first. If you are entirely new to the game, I highly recommend checking out my Slay the Spire 2 Beginner's Guide and learning the ropes legitimately before you ruin the intended experience. But if you have put in your hours and just want to mess around, grab your keyboard.

Restoring The Developer Console

The developers locked the cheat menus away to preserve the integrity of the roguelike loop, but the PC modding community wasted absolutely zero time cracking the door back open. To get these commands working, you need a specific file replacement. Do not worry, it is completely reversible if you decide you want to suffer legitimately again.

Installation Steps

You are going to need a third party mod simply called DevConsole, created by a user named Tbonex28b over on Nexus Mods. This is not a massive overhaul, it is just a single modified system file.

First, download the sts2.dll file from the mod page. Once you have that sitting on your desktop, you need to navigate to your local installation directory. If you are playing on Steam, right click the game in your library, hover over "Manage", and select "Browse local files."

From there, open the data_sts2_windows_x86_64 folder. Before you do anything else, find the original sts2.dll file in that folder and make a copy of it. Put that copy somewhere safe. If the mod ever breaks your game after a patch, pasting the original file back in is your get out of jail free card. Once your backup is secure, drag the downloaded mod file into the folder and confirm the overwrite.

How To Use The Commands

Once you have the modified file sitting comfortably in your installation directory, booting up the console is incredibly straightforward. Launch the game, load into a run, and press the Tilde key (that squiggly little symbol usually sitting above your Tab key) or press Shift and 8 at the same time. The developer interface will slide onto your screen.

The console is surprisingly user friendly. If you forget a command, typing "help" spits out the entire list. If you know what you want but forget the exact syntax, you can type the start of a command and press Tab to auto complete it.

There is one major quirk you need to understand regarding card and potion names. The console uses screaming snake case. That means if you want to spawn a Body Slam card, typing "Body Slam" will result in an error. You must type BODY_SLAM in all caps with an underscore. I figured this out the hard way while testing absurd energy combinations for my Slay the Spire 2 Defect Guide.

The Complete Cheat List

Here is the fun part. Below is the master list of everything you can type into that little black box to completely ruin the intended difficulty curve of the game. Use these to bypass awful map generation, test bizarre deck synergies, or just enact brutal revenge on a boss that ended your last run.

Slay the Spire 2 Dev Commands

Every known command unlocked by the DevConsole mod. Remember to use screaming snake case for specific items.

Command Input	What It Actually Does
godmode	Makes you completely invincible. The ultimate panic button.
win	Instantly wins your current combat encounter.
gold [amount]	Injects the specified amount of cash directly into your pockets.
energy [amount]	Gives you free energy for the current turn.
heal [amount]	Restores the specified amount of missing health.
damage [amount]	Deals flat damage to all enemies on the screen.
kill [index]	Instantly deletes a specific target. Type 'all' to wipe the board.
card [NAME]	Spawns a specific card into your hand.
remove_card [NAME]	Deletes a specific card from your hand or deck. Great for trashing curses.
upgrade [position]	Upgrades a card based on its slot in your hand, starting at 0 for the far left.
relic [NAME]	Adds a specific relic to your inventory immediately.
potion [NAME]	Forces a specific potion into an empty belt slot.
unlock all	Unlocks every single item, card, and ascension level. Use this if you want to skip my Unlock Tier List entirely.
act [number]	Teleports you directly to the specified act.
die	You die. Instantly. I am not sure why you would type this, but I am not your boss.

Keep in mind that using these tools is going to make the core gameplay loop incredibly boring if you abuse them. The thrill of Slay the Spire is barely scraping by with a weird deck you glued together out of desperation. Giving yourself infinite energy and a hand full of upgraded rare attacks is fun for about ten minutes before the novelty wears off. I primarily use this to skip acts and test specific relic synergies for guides, but how you choose to play your single player game is entirely your business.