Mega Crit
Independent studio founded by Anthony Giovannetti and Casey Yano, developer and publisher of the roguelike deckbuilder Slay the Spire.
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What Mega Crit is
Mega Crit is an independent game studio. Its own site describes it as a remote indie game studio developing design-focused games, and its pages carry a Mega Crit Games, LLC copyright notice. Its press kit for Slay the Spire states that the studio is based in Seattle, Washington, in the United States, and that it was founded by Anthony Giovannetti and Casey Yano, who are credited as its founders in the same document.
The studio's public presence is built around press kits for its games, a news feed, merchandise, community links and contact information, with the site listing separate pages for its titles. Mega Crit does not publish headcount, revenue or unit-sales figures on the pages reviewed for this profile, and no founding year is stated there, so neither is included here. The site lists pages for games, merchandise, news, community, an FAQ, about and contact, and it links to the studio's Twitter, YouTube and Discord accounts.
Slay the Spire
Slay the Spire is the game listed for Mega Crit in our database, and the studio is credited on both sides of it. The press kit's factsheet lists Mega Crit as developer, gives a release date of November 15, 2017, and names the platforms as Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PlayStation 4, with the studio's website given as megacrit.com. The same factsheet also carries a short description written by the studio and points players to megacrit.com as the developer website.
The Steam store entry shows a later date, listing Mega Crit as both developer and publisher of Slay the Spire with a release date of January 23, 2019. The two dates come from different official pages and are reported here as published on each: November 15, 2017 in the studio's own factsheet and January 23, 2019 on the Steam store listing. The store entry classifies the game under the indie and strategy genres.
Studio structure and publishing
Mega Crit operates as a distributed team: its site calls it a remote indie game studio, while the press kit gives Seattle, Washington as its base. That means the studio has a stated home city rather than a single office that all staff work from, and its hiring and press contacts run through the studio's own channels rather than a parent company. Those two statements, taken together, describe a team that works remotely while keeping a stated base in Seattle.
Publishing is kept in-house, with Mega Crit listed as publisher of Slay the Spire on Steam and press materials issued by the studio itself through its press kits and news posts. The company's legal name, Mega Crit Games, LLC, appears in the copyright notice on its site. The studio also describes the game in its own words on the Steam listing, stating that it fused card games and roguelikes to make a single-player deckbuilder.
The studio also runs a newsletter, published on its site as recurring posts it calls The Neowsletter, with dated entries on September 25, 2026, August 14, 2026 and July 17, 2026, each tagged to the studio's games. Those posts, together with the site's news and press-kit pages, are the studio's own record of what it announces and when. The newsletter posts appear alongside the site's news list and press-kit pages as the studio's own announcements.
Games
Questions people ask
Who founded Mega Crit?
Anthony Giovannetti and Casey Yano, according to the studio's Slay the Spire press kit.
Where is Mega Crit based?
The press kit gives Seattle, Washington, while the studio describes itself on its site as a remote indie game studio.
Who published Slay the Spire?
Mega Crit itself: the game's Steam store entry lists Mega Crit as both developer and publisher.