The player controls Zagreus, the prince of the Underworld, who seeks to escape the realm to get away from his unloving father, Hades, and reach his mother Persephone in the mortal world. Gameplay Hades is presented in an isometric view, with the player controlling Zagreus (center) as he fights his way out of the Underworld. A sequel, Hades II, was announced in 2022. It sold more than a million copies and was named game of the year by several award ceremonies and media publications.

Hades has been cited among the greatest video games of all time, with critics praising its narrative, gameplay, art style, music, and voice acting. The roguelike structure of Hades allowed them to tell these branching stories to the player over the course of multiple playthroughs. However, due to the nature of the gameplay, they found that players did not play through it multiple times to explore this. Hades was developed following Supergiant's Pyre, in which they wanted to explore procedural narrative storytelling. While Zagreus will often die, the player can use the treasure gained during runs to improve certain attributes or unlock new weapons and abilities to improve the chance of escaping on subsequent runs.

The game features a hack and slash combat system the player uses a combination of a main weapon attack, a special attack, a dash ability, and a magic ability to defeat enemies while avoiding damage to progress as far as possible. Each run contains 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 the other Olympians bestow on him. Was released for iOS in March 2024 through Netflix Games. It was later released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in August 2021, and It was released for macOS, Nintendo Switch, and Windows following an early access release in December 2018. Hades is a 2020 roguelike action role-playing game developed and published by Supergiant Games.

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