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Hades

Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

Developer
Supergiant Games
Publisher
Supergiant Games
Franchise
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Release date
Sep 17, 2020
Store page updated
Sep 17, 2025
Price
$24.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

86.5/ 100

Based on 421 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 95% of 1,048
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 308,554
“unlocking story by losing is a unique and engaging mechanic”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.68
Progression +1.30

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.91
Story +3.61
“surprising depth to story unfolding with NPC encounters” (38)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.52
Replayability +3.29
“very high replay value with different weapons, blessings and heat levels” (36)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+4.42
Visuals +4.42
“beautiful art style, excellent sound and combat” (64)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+2.00

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +2.00

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
+0.20
Balance -1.66

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
+2.52

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Stability +3.69

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Dec 2019Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 1,019 reviews, peak 48/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 420 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English31%
  • Chinese19%
  • Russian13%
  • Portuguese11%
  • Spanish8%
  • Turkish5%
  • Other14%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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