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Critic · Metacritic
4.4
Users · RAWG
2020
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4
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Action with a continuing story between attempts
Changing ability combinations shape each escape attempt, while conversations give repeated runs a narrative thread. Start here if learning combat and getting to know the cast should advance together.
Before you choose: You repeatedly fight through familiar regions. The ongoing story does not remove the need to enjoy the combat loop.
For your next game, compare action builds, repeat runs and stories between attempts.
Find games like Hades ↓Another direction to explore: Hades IIChoose this for Melinoë’s spells and Magick resource, rather than another attempt at Zagreus’s escape.
The next run can mean another test of your reactions or another combination to build. These directions keep the repeat-run appeal, but ask different things of you during a fight.
Choose it when learning enemy attacks, dodging and changing equipment are the parts of Hades you want to keep.
What changes: Combat and traversal move to a side-scrolling platformer. It is a close action alternative, rather than an unexpected wildcard.
Choose it when adapting a build to the rewards you find matters more than executing attacks quickly.
What changes: Cards, relics and turn-based decisions replace real-time dodging. This is a deliberate change of pace, not a combat substitute.
Release DateSeptember 17, 2020
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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.
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