Hades

HADES Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash

You'll wield the powers and mythic weapons of Olympus to break free

H A D E S

Article by | Imanka Wijesighe

If you’re into roguelike games you are in for a treat, because Hades is all you could ask for in this category. This beautiful piece of art is the ultimate dungeon crawler experience with fast-paced gameplay in total sync with the amazingly designed music, sound effects, and visual effects. The game is full of combat and abilities to give the player the ultimate minimalist yet action-packed experience. The game comes from the

| $24.99 | Developed by| Supergiant Games

developer, Supergiant Games and is expected to release somewhere around this year. However, the game’s early access versions are available on both Steam and Epic Store and here’s how the game looks like at a glance. The game isn’t an ordinary RPG game and isn’t boring in any way as all of its key elements like the story, the characters, graphics, and the mechanics are well designed and built to bring out the maximum anime-like experience to the players. You control Zagreus, the son of God of Death and the perfect plot for the game is knitted around he wanted to escape the underworld to join the pantheon of Greek gods on Mount Olympus. The story itself feels like an action-packed anime.

As for the gameplay, Hades delivers the essentials of the roguelike, dungeon crawl, action-packed gameplay with a variety of approaches and mechanics for different runs perfectly. The game’s progression is also well developed around a meaningful story where he is supported by other Olympians on his way to reaching his final

THE Olympians have your back!

destination, Mount Olympus. You get to control Zagreus in an isometric view and fight your way through specifically designed rooms that appear in all random orders. After completing each room, you receive gifts and these gifts can be boosts or abilities to change your gameplay style. You can also collect in-game currency on each level, which will come handy later on. However, the death of Zagreus is inevitable because the game is pretty hard and you will end up dying plenty of times. Upon Zagreus’ death, he faces his father and all his accumulated or active gifts from the previous run are all removed but the keys and currency. In this area where you spawn after you die, you can unlock weapons or upgrade your character so dying isn’t bad after all and is a part of the gameplay itself.

So, it’s pretty obvious that the gameplay alone is tempting enough for you to try this game out but how does the game look? Well for starters, Hades brings an addictive dimension, visual wise in it’s extremely creative and well designed 2D world. The cinematics and the VFX look like and action anime and the game itself looks like “God of War meets the anime, Berserk”. The graphics itself is stunning and minimalist and the devs have perfectly delivered the idea and the environment in this way. The graphics and the gameplay really compliment each other and is a bit reminiscent of previous generations of rouge-like experience as well.

So, talking about the devs, the game is developed by Supergiant Games who were also responsible for the amazing games, Pyre, Bastion, and Transistor. This is the 4th project of the 11-year-old developer and more than 10 million copies of all the previous titles collectively have been sold, making them quite successful and an experience dev studio. Hades was first announced in 2018 The Game Awards and the game’s early access was exclusively available on the Epic Store in the same year. It took around a whole year for the game to come to Steam and is expected to release anytime during 2020. The game requires a PC running at least on Windows 7 SP1, with a Dual Core 3.0ghz, 4 GB RAM, 1GB VRAM with OpenGL 2.1+ support, and 10 GB available disk space in order to run without having problems. Hades is a really good Rogue-like dungeon crawl RPG game with great potential to win the market as the early versions have already and if you’re a fan of aesthetics and beautiful music, Hades got it!

New surprises await each time you delve into the ever-shifting Underworld