Hades
Supergiant Games
Hades is Supergiant's isometric action roguelike: escape the Underworld, talk to everyone, keep the meta.
What kind of game is it?
Room-to-room action with boon builds and a story that advances because you die.
Who is it for?
For players who prefer dying in the Underworld so the next talk can happen.
- Loop
- Action combat
- Sessions
- Medium sessions
- Progression
- Unlocks between runs
- Players
- Single-player
- Structure
- Roguelite
- Tone
- Epic · Challenging
Game DNA
What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.
- Progression62
Estimate
- Story58
Estimate
- Social18
Estimate
- Session commitment52
Estimate
Key Steam facts
Steam store figures, checked 13 Sept 2026.
2019-12-10
Checked 17 Aug 2026.
Steam positive percent.
Checked 13 Sept 2026.
Checked 13 Sept 2026.
How many people play Hades?
Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.
Steam reviews × 25 to 55.
Copies × current price × 50–80% (sales, regional prices). Before Steam's cut, refunds and tax.
Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.
Peak that month: 5,809.
Half of 300 recent reviewers played 8.3–54 h. 5% under 2 h.
Players over time
Where the players are
Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.
- English47%
- Simplified Chinese17%
- Russian8%
- Portuguese (Brazil)8%
- Spanish (Spain)7%
- French3%
Hades players also play
Games played for more than an hour in 41 public Steam libraries of recent reviewers. Each one is played by at least 4 of these players and is more common here than across all libraries we read (× how much).
- Persona 3 Reload10% · ×4.8
- Hollow Knight24% · ×1.8
- Overwatch22% · ×1.7
- TEKKEN 710% · ×3.3
- Helltaker10% · ×2.5
- Ori and the Will of the Wisps10% · ×2.4
- Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition12% · ×1.9
- Oxygen Not Included10% · ×2.2
- Blasphemous10% · ×2
- MONSTER HUNTER RISE10% · ×1.8
Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026
What makes it different?
Death is a cutscene trigger. That inverts the usual roguelike punishment fantasy without removing difficulty.
Core mechanics
How it scores
The fantasy: Mastery and Narrative. Our scores out of 100, separate from Steam reviews.
Similar games
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Related games
Nearby games. Not always a direct substitute.
Related rankings
Hades — launch intelligence
Isometric action roguelike that used death as a narrative trigger. Steam shows Early Access from 10 December 2019 and a 1.0 on 17 September 2020 — 307,657 reviews at 98.0% on 17 August 2026.
Store price checked 13 Sept 2026.
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