Hades II
Hades 2 is a PC action game developed by Supergiant Games. It centers on movement and immediate actions, enemy and hazard responses, and stage objectives, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 9.3 / 10
About this game
Hades 2 is a PC action game centered on movement and immediate actions, enemy and hazard responses, and stage objectives. Stages build pressure through routes, enemy patterns, and changing objectives, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Animation, hits, camera behavior, and readable hazards determine whether feedback remains dependable, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera behavior, collision rules, input mapping, and repeated ground after failure can raise the entry barrier. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in topics
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Collected in series
Hades is Supergiant’s action-roguelike series set among the gods and restless souls of Greek myth. You fight through changing encounters, combine weapons with divine powers and return from defeat with new conversations and lasting progress. Each attempt develops both your fighting style and your relationships.
Hades
Sep 17, 2020
- PlayStation 5Aug 13, 2021 · 9.4 / 10
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Build variety makes repeated attempts purposeful
Hades II turns failure into another opportunity to adjust equipment, abilities and long-term growth. Its interacting choices reward experimentation, while the full release gives repeated attempts a narrative destination. The trade-off is that gathering resources and unlocking upgrades can interrupt the feeling of forward momentum. A distinctive visual and musical identity gives those returns context, but players wanting a single uninterrupted story should expect a different structure. This editorial assessment evaluates the same work facts across all three catalogued platforms; it neither copies an old rating nor imports an external numerical score. Steam Cloud, published hardware requirements and configurable graphics/input support flexible PC use. Performance remains hardware-dependent; minimum requirements do not guarantee high frame rates, and this assessment is not a hardware benchmark.
Strengths
- Interacting build choices
- Persistent growth and narrative goals
- Coherent audiovisual identity
Weaknesses
- Repetitive collection and unlock requirements
Who it is for: Solo players who enjoy action roguelikes, practice and build experimentation
Play notes: Public-evidence editorial assessment, not personal playtesting. Performance evidence is date- and hardware-bound.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Varied routes and long-term goals sustain progression, but repeated collection can slow it down. More content does not make every return equally purposeful. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Interacting build choices give repeated attempts substantial strategic purpose, while system complexity demands learning. This supports a high excellent score without treating breadth alone as a benchmark. | Reviewed | 9.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Coherent environments, characters and music establish a distinctive world. Narrative progression remains tied to repeated runs rather than a continuous linear story. | Reviewed | 9.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Steam Cloud, published hardware requirements and configurable graphics/input support flexible PC use. Performance remains hardware-dependent; minimum requirements do not guarantee high frame rates, and this assessment is not a hardware benchmark. | Reviewed | 9.1 / 10 | Not provided |
Review sources
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Core information
- Developer
- Supergiant Games
- Publisher
- Supergiant Games
- Release date
- Sep 25, 2025
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Action · Primary genre
- Tags
- Real-time CombatTop-downRandomized BuildsReplayableCombosRogueliteProcedural GenerationDodgeMythology
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwideSep 25, 2025
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwideSep 25, 2025
- Nintendo Switch 2WorldwideSep 25, 2025
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Sources
- www.supergiantgames.com