#Hades game steam series#

The roguelike structure of Hades gave them the opportunity to tell these branching stories to the player over the course of multiple runs. Hades was developed following Supergiant's Pyre, a game in which they wanted to explore procedural narrative storytelling, but due to the nature of the main gameplay, found that players did not play through Pyre multiple times to explore this.

While Zagreus will often die, the player can use gained treasure to improve certain attributes or unlock new weapons and abilities to improve chances of escaping on subsequent runs. The game has a hack and slash combat system the player uses a combination of their main weapon attack, a special attack, a dash ability, and a magic ability to defeat them while avoiding damage to progress as far as possible.

#Hades game steam series#

Each run challenges the player through a random series of rooms populated with enemies and rewards. Players control Zagreus, the son of Hades, as he attempts to escape from the Underworld to reach Mount Olympus, at times aided by gifts bestowed on him from the other Olympians. It is also set to release for iOS in 2024 through Netflix Games. It was later released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in August 2021.

It was released for macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows following an early access release in December 2018. Hades is a 2020 roguelike video game developed and published by Supergiant Games.