Current version:Windows PC
Hades

Hades

Hades 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.

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9.4 / 10
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About this game

Hades 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

Great games under ten hours

Discover compact adventures and games suited to shorter sessions, with different ways to enjoy progress when time is limited.

Category: Occasion

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.

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9.4 / 10Windows PC

Exceptional PC action experience

Hades centers on movement and immediate actions, enemy and hazard responses, and stage objectives. Stages build pressure through routes, enemy patterns, and changing objectives, giving the release understandable goals and a recognizable play rhythm. It arranges controls and information around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one. Animation, hits, camera behavior, and readable hazards determine whether feedback remains dependable, while the main genre limitation is that camera behavior, collision rules, input mapping, and repeated ground after failure can raise the entry barrier. The assessment also covers hardware and OS requirements, settings, drivers, installation, patches, DRM, launchers, mods, saves, and server status for this release. GameNavo judges four dimensions independently before applying fixed weights and excludes press aggregates, user ratings, sales, popularity, source length, media count, and title recognition. Platform merit is recorded only when a concrete hardware use or version implementation supports a small adjustment.

Strengths

  • movement and immediate actions, and enemy and hazard responses provide a readable mechanical foundation.
  • Progress is divided into understandable stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones.
  • Visual, audio, and interface feedback support the principal rules and state changes.

Weaknesses

  • Camera behavior, collision rules, input mapping, and repeated ground after failure can raise the entry barrier.
  • 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.

Who it is for: Players who enjoy action games, accept PC control and information conventions, and want to judge this release on its own terms.

Play notes: This review covers the PC release without conveniences from emulators, remasters, or other platforms and does not represent a complete playthrough.

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This content pacing score was recalibrated under V3 using the fixed dimension boundary, the existing source record, and the target release context.

Reviewed9.2 / 10Not provided
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This core experience score was recalibrated under V3 using the fixed dimension boundary, the existing source record, and the target release context.

Reviewed9.6 / 10Not provided
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This presentation immersion score was recalibrated under V3 using the fixed dimension boundary, the existing source record, and the target release context.

Reviewed9.3 / 10Not provided
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This technical usability score was recalibrated under V3 using the fixed dimension boundary, the existing source record, and the target release context.

Reviewed9.2 / 10Not provided

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Core information

Release date
Sep 17, 2020
Platforms
Windows PC
Content kind
Game
Release state
Released
Region
Worldwide
Official website
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Offline minimum players
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Offline maximum players
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Online minimum players
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Online maximum players
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Tags
DodgeRogueliteProcedural GenerationMythologyReal-time CombatReplayableTop-downRandomized BuildsCombos
Supported game languages
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Requires base game
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Standalone
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Age ratings
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Play modes
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Perspectives
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Release editions

Sources

  • www.nintendo.com