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.
You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.
Price on Steam
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The fingerprint
- 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.
These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.
CalibrateScreenshots
IGDBWhere it bites
SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT- 12% · ~2hReaction
the first boss, which is mostly a lesson in not panicking
▲ 9 - 65% · ~12hReaction
the two-on-one fight most runs die to
▲ 2 - 92% · ~20hExecution
the last fight, which begins after you thought the run was already won
▲ 37
Assists & accessibility
0/4 SOURCEDCHALLENGE 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
Argue with these asksIts own neighbourhood, ordered by how close the difficulty actually sits.
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