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Role-playing (RPG), Hack and slash/Beat 'em up, Adventure, Indie
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A rogue-lite hack and slash dungeon crawler in which Zagreus, son of Hades the Greek god of the dead, attempts to escape his home and his oppressive father by fighting the souls of the dead through the various layers of the ever-shifting underworld, while getting to know and forging relationships with its inhabitants.
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Meticulous, relentless, richly built and clear.
17 profiled raters. Loved most by The Cartographers; disliked most by The Provocateurs.
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Failure as story. Dying gets you a conversation and a better weapon, which is more than most games give you for winning.
The run-based loop and the story are the same machine; dying is how the plot advances. Nobody had done that properly before and everyone has copied it since.
Best soundtrack in games since Nier. The game is also good.
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PC, Mac, Nintendo Switch; Supergiant GamesThis gripping action game set in a hellish realm filled with gorgeous gods and monsters is well worth the years it took to make
Game RantJoshua DuckworthSep 20205/5 starsHades is everything a dungeon-crawler fan could want out of a game. Its gameplay loop is rewarding and interesting, it's simple enough that there's no skill barrier, it's complex enough that the repetition is a benefit and not a detriment, and all the small details boost the bigger ones. Hades is ultimately the result of when every aspect of a game comes together to form one fun and cohesive experience, and it's a testament to what Supergiant Games can do.
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EurogamerChristian DonlanSep 2020Greek gods bring family charm to this glittering headlong pelt through the underworld
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TheGamerCian MaherSep 20205/5 starsHades is, to put it plainly, a masterpiece. It has a refreshingly unique trajectory, tells a compelling story with an alluring cast, and has such a good handle on moment-to-moment play that it is never anything less than genuinely excellent. It’s a game that grows the more you play it, as opposed to being something that suffers from a slow descent into tedium. And for that reason, it is a genuine forever game.
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IGDB rating 9.1/10 from 1771 ratings.
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“Is Hades better than Bastion?”
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“Is the villain right?”
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Killa PenguinJake AriasAug 20215/10 starsHades is a hack-and-slash dungeon crawler roguelite with a simplistic gameplay loop, some complex perk combinations reminiscent of Transistor, and a reactive story that sees characters react to just about anything that you do. The problem is that all of the things that you can do are limited to picking perks and killing things in the same four floors of the same dungeon, and the story drags its heels in such an egregious way that you have to finish this same 20-40-minute dungeon something like 50 times to reach the actual ending.
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Metro GameCentralSep 20208/10A hell of a good roguelike, supported by a surprisingly strong narrative that provides just as much motivation to persevere as the excellent combat system.
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If you loved this game, the film, the television, the book, the music.
