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Hades

Hades is Supergiant Games' roguelite dungeon crawler set in the Greek underworld, where Zagreus attempts to escape Tartarus while navigating his fraught relationship with his father Hades. Each run develops the narrative through conversations with Olympians, shades, and contractors, making the story progress through failure as much as success. Weapon variety and boon combinations from Olympian gods define each run's feel.

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Hades

Steam reviews

304,032 of 310,271 Steam user reviews are positive (98%) and Steam's own label is “Overwhelmingly Positive”, according to Steam's review summary for Hades at the last data refresh.

What Steam reviewers mention

19 of the 20 sampled reviews recommend it. Detailed texts praise the combat, a story told through repeated runs, the cast and the soundtrack; reservations include frustrating late boss fights and boredom after several clears from a self-described genre skeptic. Many recent texts are one-line endorsements, and the lone negative review is a brief complaint.

Sample: 20 reviews from Steam's English filter (10 most helpful, 10 most recent, ), 19 recommending · how Claude counts topics

  • Combat and Boons (praised in 6, criticised in 1 of 20): Reviewers praise fast, satisfying combat built around weapons, dashing and god boons, though one reviewer would make slight balance adjustments in a place or two.
  • Difficulty and RNG (praised in 6, criticised in 2 of 20): Reviewers call it easy to learn but hard to master, with adjustable difficulty and fair randomness, while one grew frustrated with repeated final boss fights and one negative review objects to late-game randomness.
  • Story and Characters (praised in 9, criticised in 1 of 20): Reviewers praise the Greek mythology cast, voice acting and a story that unfolds through repeated deaths, while the one negative review dislikes how endgame runs keep serving up character relationship scenes.
  • Replayability and Progression (praised in 7, criticised in 2 of 20): Reviewers praise permanent upgrades, steady unlocks and a one-more-run pull, but one became bored after a few clears and another would adjust progression in one spot.
  • Art, Music and Voice Acting (praised in 5, criticised in 1 of 20): Reviewers praise the hand-drawn art, soundtrack and voice work, though one finds some visual effects overbearing.

Good for

  • Roguelite players who want narrative integration that makes death feel purposeful rather than punishing
  • Those who enjoy a high-polish character action combat system with run-to-run build variety
  • Players who want a complete, authored story in a roguelite — Hades has a defined ending
  • Quick session players — individual runs are 20-40 minutes

Avoid if

  • You dislike the boon-selection format of roguelites where runs can feel luck-dependent
  • You want an open-ended roguelite rather than one with a story endpoint
  • Isometric hack-and-slash with fast-paced combat is not your preference
  • No multiplayer — this is single-player only

Is Hades an indie game?

Yes. Steam lists Hades under the "Indie" genre, and its publisher is not on this site's major-publisher list.

  • Steam genre tags on record: Action, Indie, RPG — includes "Indie".
  • Developer: Supergiant Games.
  • Publisher: Supergiant Games — same as the developer, i.e. self-published; not on this site's major-publisher list.

The rubric, its limits and the publisher list: methodology.