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Hades
Developer Supergiant Games
Hades is a 2020 roguelike action role-playing game developed and published by Supergiant Games. It was released for macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows on September 17, 2020, following an early access release in December 2018. It was later released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in August 2021, and was released for iOS in March 2024 through Netflix Games. Players control Zagreus, the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
916 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
95
LovedLoved
534 positive · 30 negative
95% range 93–96%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 534 | 30 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 87 | 12 | 193 |
| Mastodon * | 8 | 0 | 34 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 15 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
152,327 of 154,826 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
94% recommend · 297 yes, 19 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 316 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (303,508 of 309,723 positive).
Players praise Hades for its addictive gameplay loop and meaningful progression. [1][2][3] Many note that death feels like an opportunity rather than a punishment. [1][4][5] Some reviewers find the game repetitive and the combat monotonous. [6][7][8]
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Representative posts
- [7]
I want to like this game, but it feels too repetitive and one-note for me. Yes, there are a variety of weapons and boons, which alter your attack and defense mechanics, to unlock and explore. However, regardless of what you're using, the gameplay loop is simple -- Attack, dodge the ridiculous amounts of crap the game throws at you, attack, dodge, attack, dodge, dodge, dodge. No matter how many upgrades you collect, …
- [1]
Hades is one of those games where losing doesn't feel like losing. Every run unlocks something new, every build feels different and before you know it you've been playing for hours. The combat is smooth, the soundtrack is fantastic and the characters are some of the best I've seen in a roguelike. Absolutely loved it.
- [5]
I initially bounced off this game quite hard. I went in with the typical roguelike mindset of "I need to beat this run I am in right now," which meant that every time I failed, the story interruptions and the hub area felt like annoying hurdles keeping me from my next attempt. However, once I stopped trying to force a win and started embracing the grind, it clicked. The metaprogression and the narrative aren't …
- [3]
I went into Hades expecting a fun roguelike, but ended up getting addicted to “just one more run” for hours. The combat feels insanely smooth, every weapon has its own personality, and the progression never feels wasted even when you fail. What surprised me most was the story. Somehow this game makes dying over and over actually meaningful because the characters react to everything. Zagreus, the dialogue, the …
- [2]
Hades never felt like repeating the same thing, it felt like slowly understanding it. Runs blur together, but progress doesn’t. You learn the systems, the characters learn you back, and suddenly dying feels…normal. Fast, elegant combat. Sharp writing. A soundtrack that never misses. One of the few games where reaching 100% felt natural instead of forced. Still dying. Still worth it.
Summarised from 34 of the 487 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Hades sits at 95% positive across 564 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Hades received "universal acclaim", according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received "mighty" approval, being recommended by 99% of critics. Critics praised Hades for its story, characters, gameplay and soundtrack. IGN praised the characters, writing that they each "[felt] like an authentic reinterpretation of a classic Greek myth...they're all a joy to behold." The Guardian liked art director Jen Zee's work on the game, particularly her portraits of the characters, calling them "wonderfully drawn" and "with appropriate godlike profiles." Jordan Devore of Destructoid enjoyed the story, feeling the dialogue made use of its…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 916 · most liked firstWe’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
neutral · AI labelView post →If Hades is a game that made you feel seen and represented, it's because of the hard work of the people who contributed their talents. Now we have an opportunity to repay that. Please tell Supergiant that you support striking workers.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mutuals interested in -Art -Splatoon -Hades (game) -Project Sekai -Musicals -Twisted Wonderland -Art -Our Life -Monster Prom -Alien Stage -Milgram -Ace Attorney -Poetry -Stardew Valley -Guilty Gear -Nintendo games
neutral · AI labelView post →Hades 2 Hera on a very rare date night (the game is awesome btw)
positive · AI labelView post →Aphrodite fanart but from the second game this time! [ #hades #hades2 #art ]
neutral · AI labelView post →We’re very grateful and honored to have earned Best Action Game for Hades II at The Game Awards last night!!🙏 We were among incredible nominees. Thank you to everyone who played and cast a vote — your faith in our team always drives us.
neutral · AI labelView post →HADES 2 IS HERE!!! HECATE TURNED ME INTO A SHEEP!!! GAME OF THE YEAR!!!
positive · AI labelView post →Started playing Hades 2 🥹 i love Selene’s character design so much!! 🌙
positive · AI labelView post →HADES II arrives on Xbox and PlayStation one week from now, on April 14!🌖 Join the Princess of the Underworld in her battle against Time. This piece by our art director Jen Zee was first featured in Game Informer. We're honored to have earned numerous Best Visual Art nominations for the game!
neutral · AI labelView post →Congratulations xbox people on your new access to #Hades 2, I can’t believe we’re still getting beautiful animated trailers from this game! #Scylla #Melinoë
positive · AI labelView post →We're so honored to see Hades II nominated for six awards in The Game Awards, including 🌒Best Art Direction 🌒Best Score & Music 🌒Best Independent Game 🌒Best Action Game 🌒Best Game Direction 🌒Game of the Year Huge congratulations to all our fellow nominees!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Anjo as Melinoë for HADES 2 WAHOOOO GO PLAY THE GAME #Hades2 #HadesII
positive · AI labelView post →This is one of the rare games I struggled to write a review for. I was so close to giving it a negative review, but then I thought that would be unfair to the developers, so I changed it to positive. The biggest reason for this is that I have stayed away from the roguelike genre for years, and I forced myself several times to try it and see whether I could actually enjoy it or not. I was always prejudiced against the genre because I hate soulslike games, and because of that, I thought the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🏆Honored to see Hades II declared Game of the Year by Metacritic, especially in light of how many outstanding and inspiring games released in the last year!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hades Game Fan Desperately Tries and Fails to Avoid Incest Ships While Writing Fanfiction hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hades II comes to Xbox Series X|S, Game Pass, and PlayStation 5 on April 14, two weeks from today!🌖
neutral · AI labelView post →Imagine delaying your game to get away from Silksong just to land at the same time as Hades 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Very excited to be working with Game Music Festival to bring the music of HADES and HADES II to London's Royal Festival Hall this coming year, feat. @darrenkorb.bsky.social, Ashley Barrett, @awintory.bsky.social, and more!🎼🔥 Tickets for the event on June 27 are now available at gamemusic.net.
neutral · AI labelView post →A new roguelike video game for sale on Steam known as “Pluto” is being accused of just being a Hades knockoff. paletteswap.site/dif...
neutral · AI labelView post →We're thrilled and honored to see HADES II named Best Game on Steam Deck in the Steam Awards!!🙏🎉 Thanks so much to everyone who voted, and we hope you all enjoy playing HADES II on Steam Deck!
neutral · AI labelView post →Mel from Hades 2, I'm a huge fan of the game 🧡 More art: patreon.com/dandonfuga dandonfuga.itch.io
positive · AI labelView post →The Game Awards GOTY nominees leaked: -Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 -Death Stranding 2: On the Beach -Donkey Kong Bananza -Hades II -Hollow Knight: Silksong -Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
neutral · AI labelView post →We're grateful to see HADES II nominated for the Golden Joystick Ultimate Game of the Year award! Your votes will determine the winner: www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoysti...
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Release Day Hades II - I can’t wait to sink in so many hours into this game with my girl Melinoë!!! Death to Chronos!!! [ #hades #melinoe ]
positive · AI labelView post →Madam #Nyx #Hades Game, I love you. #art
positive · AI labelView post →Game of the Year nominees at #TheGameAwards • ‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ • ‘Death Stranding 2’ • ‘Donkey Kong Bananza’ • ‘Hades II’ • ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ • ‘Kingdom Come: Deliverance II’
neutral · AI labelView post →Hades II was nominated for Best Foreign Game and Best Foreign Independent Game in France's Pégases 2026 Awards!! Merci beaucoup!🙏 It's only three games per category, so we're all the more honored to have made the ballot alongside some of our favorites from the past year.
neutral · AI labelView post →HADES II is out now on Xbox Series X|S, GamePass, and PlayStation 5!🌖 Battle beyond the Underworld in the highest-rated game of 2025, now with all-new bonus content.
neutral · AI labelView post →Best Action Game goes to Hades II
neutral · AI labelView post →The Steam Winter Sale is on, and you can get this year's Best Action Game winner HADES II for 25% off!🌖 And if you've enjoyed HADES II on the go, please consider casting a vote for it as this year's Best Game on Steam Deck in the Steam Awards!🙏 Vote Here: store.steampowered.com/SteamAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →Hades Game meets Ghibli 🌱✨ #hadesgame #hades2
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this game #Hades
positive · AI labelView post →“I’ve never played Hades, but can assure you our game is nothing like it,” claims Pluto's lead developer. paletteswap.site/dif...
neutral · AI labelView post →I know it's GOTY season and 2026 and... But it's fucked up how good the post game of Pokemon Legends: Arceus (after the Temple of Sinnoh) is If you can avoid spoilers and guides and can play it you should! Outside of Hades, it might be my favorite game experience of the last 10 years
positive · AI labelView post →I always thought it'd be cool if Hades had a bloodied, melancholy portrait after he sent you back home in the first game. #hades
neutral · AI labelView post →Hades 2 launched their beta with hand draw assets that made the game much more charming. It was really cool to see sketches of the characters and some areas. GenAI never needs to be used as a placeholder.
positive · AI labelView post →The original HADES is back on Game Pass today! Good luck getting out of hell.
neutral · AI labelView post →‘HADES 2’ has won Best Action Game at #TheGamesAwards
neutral · AI labelView post →Hades is a gorgeous game. 🤩
positive · AI labelView post →I participate in a Hades rally at the YCON, so I've made some special merch for it : )) I HAD to draw my fav trio of the first game ! I hope you'll like them too ! I've got another drawing incoming for it... ❤️ #hades #thanzag #megzag #zagreus
neutral · AI labelView post →Hades 2 seems like the cheapest full Game Card release yet
neutral · AI labelView post →Melinoe, Hades II 🧡💚 Can't wait for the game to release on Switch 2!
neutral · AI labelView post →HADES GAME WHY ARE THEY NAKED?? 👀
neutral · AI labelView post →I adore this game #Hades @supergiantgames.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →This is probably one of the best action roguelike games. Lots of different weapons + lots of different blessings + heat levels = very high replay values. The art style is very supergiant signature, reminds me of Bastion and Transistor. Story line is very long. I’ve completed almost 100 successful runs but haven’t exhausted the dialogues. The game could be a bit difficult at first. After several attempts you will get better and more powerful combinations will be revealed. Achievements…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rolled credits on Hades 2 Game good
positive · AI labelView post →Hades is one of those games where losing doesn't feel like losing. Every run unlocks something new, every build feels different and before you know it you've been playing for hours. The combat is smooth, the soundtrack is fantastic and the characters are some of the best I've seen in a roguelike. Absolutely loved it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hades never felt like repeating the same thing, it felt like slowly understanding it. Runs blur together, but progress doesn’t. You learn the systems, the characters learn you back, and suddenly dying feels…normal. Fast, elegant combat. Sharp writing. A soundtrack that never misses. One of the few games where reaching 100% felt natural instead of forced. Still dying. Still worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I might be 5 years late to the party, but WOW…this game is insanely fun to play!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Swoobat drawn in Hades style! Decided Hermes would look great as a Swoobat! 🦇🪽 (Background is NOT made by me, its from the game) #pokemon #pokemonart #hades
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve been playing so much Hades II and it’s a PHENOMENAL game imo. I cannot get enough of it. 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
positive · AI labelView post →The only game i've seen that makes death not a punishment but an oppurtunity. Yes, you can pet the dog.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hades II wins Best Action Game
neutral · AI labelView post →I initially bounced off this game quite hard. I went in with the typical roguelike mindset of "I need to beat this run I am in right now," which meant that every time I failed, the story interruptions and the hub area felt like annoying hurdles keeping me from my next attempt. However, once I stopped trying to force a win and started embracing the grind, it clicked. The metaprogression and the narrative aren't interruptions, they are part of the gameplay loop. Once that realization hit me, I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally beat Hades II and reached the end credits, brb crying 🥹 🥹 💕 what a triumph of game design, of writing, of music, of voice acting, of artwork and character design and VFX, absolutely phenomenal 100000/10 fantastic game
positive · AI labelView post →Rogue-likes aren't generally my thing. But this one looked interesting, and I loved the stylized designs (and, ya know, all those positive reviews). Bought it. Played it. And promptly dumped it. "Dude, what is this? No meaningful progression. Same boss over and over again. Ain't got time for that!" So, I laid this game to rest. Or so I thought. 5 years later, Hades 2 comes out, and I've just finished Silksong and a few other titles I absolutely loved. "Wait.. I have the first Hades. Hmm..."…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My first experience with a roguelite game, which I was initially unsure about trying, but I am so glad I ended up playing it! Hades has been a thrilling experience that has drawn me in to play for hours. The gameplay and combat are different from what I am used to in other games, and I was at first annoyed by having to restart everything I die, but eventually found myself loving the progression system. Being able to grow stronger and more powerful with every escape attempt feels so natural…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not a roguelike/lite fan, Dead Cells, Binding of Isaac, Windsblown, etc... never stuck with me. That is until I have played this game. It certainly lived up to the hype, even captivating a non-fan like me. I got my first successful escape attempt at the 14th run. After numerous close calls with , with me over-exerting, dying when the boss's health only having a sliver of it left, I finally had my first successful run. Now usually with other roguelike games, I put down the games after one…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hades? more like hey, deez characters are well written and the gameplay is hard but incredibly fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{…
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