Hades is a roguelike action role-playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games. The player takes the role of Zagreus, the prince of the Underworld, who is trying to escape the realm to get away from his dispassionate father, Hades. Hades received critical acclaim, particularly for its gameplay and narrative. It was listed as Game of the Year in several publications, including topping Time’s Top 10 Games of 2020 list.
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Hades is a roguelike action role-playing video game developed and published by Supergiant Games. The player takes the role of Zagreus, the prince of the Underworld, who is trying to escape the realm to get away from his dispassionate father, Hades. Hades received critical acclaim, particularly for its gameplay and narrative. The game was listed as Game of the Year in several publications, including topping Time’s Top 10 Games of 2020 list. It won several accolades, including Best Indie Game and Critics’ Choice Award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2020 and being nominated for eight categories in The Game Awards 2020. It was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Nintendo Switch on September 17, 2020, which followed an early access release in December 2018. The game features four \”biomes\”, or locales of the underworld: Tartarus, Asphodel, Elysium, and the Temple of Styx. It is presented in an isometric view with the player in control of Zags, the son of Hades, who seeks to escape his father’s realm in the Underworld. He is aided by his adoptive mother Nyx, who gives him a special mirror that empowers him with various abilities via collected Darkness; the Gods of Olympus to whom he has reached out, who provide him with Boons that give him special powers, and his mentor, Achilles, who provides him with weapons that possess powerful and hidden aspects of its past, present, and future.
It’s eventually revealed that Zags is the child of Hades himself, and refuses to even allow her name to be spoken in his House of Asterius, even though it is said that it is unimaginable that such a name should be spoken. Zags’ quest is supported by the other Olympians, who grant him gifts to help fight the beings that protect the exit from the underworld, such as Sisyphus, Eurydice, or Patroclus. Between runs, the player can explore the Underworld before setting on a new quest. Here, they can use the keys to unlock permanent upgrades, order construction of new support features, or obtain new weapons. They can also interact with the various characters of the Hades, which provide narrative elements to the game and may also provide quests with additional rewards. Hades was developed following Superg Giant’s Pyre, a game in which they wanted to explore procedural narrative storytelling, but found that players did not play through Pyre multiple times to explore this. Each run challenges the player through a random series of rooms populated with enemies and rewards to defeat them while avoiding damage to progress as far as possible. If Zags dies, he ends up facing his father, removing all gifts granted from the last run.
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