Hades cover art

Hades

2020 · Supergiant Games · ~25h to finish

Hard in a way that always moves forward: you lose the run but never the hour, because failure is the currency the next attempt is bought with.

roguelikeactionPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesNintendo SwitchSteam DeckMetacritic 93
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.0MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

Price on Steam

$24.99

USD · United States · checked 2h ago

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The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Strategy
4.8
Reaction
4.5
Execution
4.0
Grind
3.8
Learning Curve
3.2
Punishment
2.4
Obscurity
2.1
Puzzle
0.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 1.5 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Reaction drops 1.3 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 4.0 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 12% · ~2hReaction

    the first boss, which is mostly a lesson in not panicking

    9
  2. 65% · ~12hReaction

    the two-on-one fight most runs die to

    2
  3. 92% · ~20hExecution

    the last fight, which begins after you thought the run was already won

    37

Assists & accessibility

0/4 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Granular assist sliders [unsourced]God Mode grants stacking damage resistance that grows every time you die.
  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]The Pact of Punishment raises difficulty rather than lowering it.

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

An isometric action roguelike in which the son of the Greek underworld god repeatedly tries to fight his way out, gaining permanent upgrades and story with each attempt.

Where to go from here

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