Game

Hades

2020 · Xbox Series X|S · PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · iOS · PlayStation 5 · Mac · Role-playing (RPG) · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Adventure

91IGDB player score
1,785 ratings

Previously Take

A 91 average across 1,785 ratings. Firmly in the "everyone should try it once" tier. An RPG where the writing does the heavy lifting. Fantasy, drama that stick with you after the credits. One player, no compromises. This was built for the solo run.

Awards & honors

The Game Awards 2020

Game of the Year — Nominee

The Game Awards 2020

Best Action Game — Winner

About this game

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.

Zagreus, the son of Hades, has discovered that his mother, which he was led to believe was Nyx, Night Incarnate, is actually someone else, and is outside Hell. He is now attempting to escape his father's domain, with the help of the other gods of Olympus, in an attempt to find his real mother.