Hades 2 is at present the best-reviewed sport of 2025 however in accordance with builders, it may not be getting a sequel.
The unique Hades was formally launched in 2020 after a few years in Early Entry. It went on to promote greater than 1,000,000 copies and was praised by followers and critics alike. A sequel launched in Early Entry final yr forward of a full launch final week.
Hades 2 is the primary time builders Supergiant Video games has ever made a sequel and the sport, in accordance with the official description, “builds on the very best features of the unique god-like rogue-like dungeon crawler in an all-new, action-packed, endlessly replayable expertise rooted within the Underworld of Greek fable and its deep connections to the daybreak of witchcraft”.
Following its launch, Hades 2 has grow to be the best-reviewed sport of 2025 beating out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Hole Knight: Silksong, Blue Prince, Break up Fiction and Donkey Kong Bananza in accordance with overview mixture website Metacritic.
Nevertheless in a brand new interview, Supergiant studio director Amir Rao has revealed they haven’t began planning a follow-up simply but. “Once we’re engaged on our video games, we’re not speaking concerning the subsequent sport. The tradition is de facto about specializing in what we’ve got and if we’ve got a very good concept or have a very good thought, it ought to go into the sport we’re making,” he instructed YouTuber Haelian (by way of GamesRadar+).
“What we’re doing subsequent is simply targeted on [the full launch] and seeing what individuals are saying about it,” he continued. “Then there shall be a break and we’ll course of this and work out what the longer term holds for us. However [Hades 3] isn’t preordained. It’s not one thing we secretly know proper now or something like that.”
Talking about their determination to make a sequel to Hades, Supergiant wrote: “With every of our initiatives over time, we’ve aimed to tackle a brand new problem that stretched our group’s creativity and taught us extra about the way to make video games effectively collectively. One such problem we’ve lengthy thought-about was to attempt to make a sequel that might by some means re-capture the sense of marvel and delight of its predecessor. A few of our all-time favourite video games achieved this! Might we?”
Hades 2 is at present solely accessible on Nintendo Swap and PC with no information of a PlayStation or Xbox model. “We haven’t dominated out bringing Hades 2 to different platforms down the road. The unique Hades initially launched solely on PC, Mac and Nintendo Swap and we’ve taken an identical path with the sequel,” the studio defined within the FAQ part of their web site.
In different information, The Final Of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann has taken to social media to substantiate information concerning the franchise is coming, with many followers assuming he’s speaking concerning the long-awaited sequel.
