We're very excited to announce that Hades II is coming to Xbox Series X|S + Game Pass and PlayStation 5 on April 14! Xbox and PlayStation players will soon find out why our first-ever sequel became the best-reviewed game of 2025 according to Metacritic and OpenCritic, following its v1.0 launch on PC, Nintendo Switch 2, and Nintendo Switch on September 25 last year. Watch the Princess of the Underworld suit up to battle beyond the Underworld in our brand-new animated trailer to mark the occasion:
Hades II for Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 run at an ultrafast 120 frames per second, and these latest versions also include some bonus content and quality-of-life improvements we've been working on in the meantime! If you already have the game, expect these in a patch releasing that the same day, and we'll have full patch notes then.
Hades II for Xbox and PlayStation has been our focus since last year's v1.0 launch, during which time the game earned numerous industry accolades, including Best Action Game at The Game Awards and the D.I.C.E. Awards, Best Game on Steam Deck in the Steam Awards, Best Foreign Game at the Pégases Awards, and more! We're very grateful for the reception, and are looking forward to hearing both from new and returning players soon.
To everyone who's anticipated Hades II coming to more platforms, thank you for your patience, and we hope you'll find our latest game to be well worth the wait!
As the year draws to a close, we wanted to reflect on the times gone by, but mostly to say thank you for supporting Hades II and our team!
Featured here are some of the familiar faces from the Crossroads, under more-festive circumstances than those that Princess Melinoë finds herself in at the beginning of the game. Illustration by our environment artist Joanne Tran.
Yuletide Greetings
From all of us at Supergiant, we wish you a happy, relaxing holiday season!
We invite you to bask in the warmth and magick of Hecate's cauldron, just in time for any Yuletide festivities, in our 12-hour Witch of the Crossroads Yule Log video! May your nights be enchanting.
Hades II is the biggest game we've ever made, and the best-reviewed game of the year, as well as recipient of accolades such as Best Action Game at The Game Awards. It's also in the running for Best Game on Steam Deck in the Steam Awards, if you'd do us the honor of casting your vote! These Awards are a powerful way to show your support for your favorite games, and also gave us an excuse to bring you this likeness of Headmistress Hecate by our illustrator Jeremy Anninos!
See You Next Year!
Our team started back in 2009, and the seven original members who created our first game, Bastion, have stuck together and worked on each of our games since, now alongside close to 20 additional team members who were instrumental in the making of Hades II(a decent portion of whom attended The Game Awards recently, as you can see below!).
As an independent studio, our games are made possible by players of our previous titles — so, the simple reason we're still here after all this time is you. We'll always be grateful for your support. While it's too early to say what's next for our team, we look forward to pressing on together, and sharing our progress with you when possible. Until then, may moonlight guide you and all of us!
We are very grateful and honored to have earned the award for Best Action Game for Hades II at The Game Awards! Watch our acceptance moment here. Hades II is not just the culmination of nearly five years of development, but of our studio's entire history aiming to craft fast, responsive, reactive games filled with interesting and surprising moments.
Likewise, what an honor it was to be in contention for Best Independent Game, Best Score and Music, Best Artistic Direction, Best Game Direction, and even Game of the Year... especially since we were in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.
Credit to our illustrator Jeremy Anninos for the red carpet tribute to all the Game of the Year nominees!
Featuring from left to right:
🖼️ Maelle (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33)
🌖 Melinoë (Hades II)
📿 Hornet (Hollow Knight: Silksong)
🍌 Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong Bananza)
📦 Sam Porter Bridges (Death Stranding 2: On the Beach)
🛡️ Henry of Skalitz (Kingdom Come: Deliverance II)
It's been an exciting few weeks since we launched Hades II! We wanted to share details on a couple of related announcements.
Hades II: Physical Edition in Stores Now!
A retail version of Hades II on a standard physical game card is now available in stores worldwide for Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch!
While the packaging emphasizes the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, the game card also contains the version for the original Nintendo Switch, so works with both consoles. (Note while the game is playable directly from the game card, we recommend connecting to the Internet and checking for the latest updates.)
The package also includes a full-color 32-page Character Compendium booklet, a reversible cover slip, and a download code for the Hades II Original Soundtrack, featuring nearly four hours of pulse-pounding music created for the game. This new retail version is perfect for gifting, or for those who prefer physical media!
New Frinos Plush, Poster, & More!
We're excited to offer the first set of official Hades II merchandise, in collaboration with our friends at Fangamer.com!
Now you can confide in your very own Frinos Plush (or just squeeze him repeatedly), and we also have a Melinoë Poster to adorn your walls if you so desire. We have a Nectar Ornament as well! We hope you enjoy these!
Thank you for playing Hades II, which is currently the most critically acclaimed game of the year according to Metacritic and OpenCritic, and the highest-rated game in our studio's history!
We're thrilled with that accomplishment, as well as our recent Game of the Year nomination, and grateful to all our players for joining us in the Underworld once more, or for the first time!
We're so honored to see Hades II nominated for six awards in The Game Awards, including:
Best Art Direction
Best Score & Music
Best Independent Game
Best Action Game
Best Game Direction
Game of the Year
Hades II is one of the most nominated games in the awards, and as a result, we're one of the most nominated publishers as well!
We're very grateful to be in the running amid so many outstanding nominees, during what's been an incredible year for games. You can help choose the winners at thegameawards.com, and if you enjoyed Hades II, we'd certainly appreciate your vote!
We couldn't possibly be more excited to announce that we've completed the Early Access development of Hades II, and officially launched v1.0 of the game!! It's now available on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, Steam, and the Epic Games Store. Whether you've been playing all through Early Access or this will be your very first foray into our take on the Underworld of Greek myth, we welcome you and thank you for joining us!
About the v1.0 Launch Update
Those who've been keeping up with our Early Access development can look forward to a slew of exciting additions in our v1.0 Launch Update, notably the true ending of the story, scores of new events for the game's dozens of fully voiced characters, new music we can't wait for you to hear, new Fated List prophecies, new late-game unlockables, and other finishing touches! Full patch notes are here (Steam).
About the Hades II Original Soundtrack
The completion of Hades II also marks the completion of the Hades II Original Soundtrack by our award-winning composer Darren Korb. Much like the game itself, this is our biggest-ever soundtrack, clocking in at just under four hours of music created for this game.
If you've been enjoying the soundtrack already, know that we've saved some of the best for last! The soundtrack is available on Steam and Bandcamp or streaming on our YouTube channel or other services.
About the Game
Hades II is a rogue-like dungeon crawler in which you'll battle beyond the Underworld of Greek myth using dark sorcery to take on the sinister Titan of Time. Our studio's first-ever sequel builds on the best aspects of the award-winning original in an all-new, action-packed, endlessly replayable experience rooted in the Underworld of Greek myth and its deep connections to the dawn of witchcraft.
As the immortal Princess of the Underworld, you'll explore a bigger, deeper mythic world, vanquishing the forces of the Titan of Time with the full might of Olympus behind you, in a sweeping story that continually unfolds through your every setback and accomplishment. New locations, challenges, upgrade systems, and surprises await as you delve into the ever-shifting Underworld again and again. For more information, check our Hades II FAQ.
What's Next?
We've given v1.0 of Hades II everything we've got! As with any of our Major Updates, we'll be keeping a close eye on this launch to ensure it's as problem-free as possible, and deploy hotfixes or patches in case of any issues. Beyond that, it's too early to say what's next for our team! We'll likely take some time to reflect and recharge.
Thank You for Playing!!
While Hades II spent more than four-and-a-half years in development, including about a year and a half in Early Access, it's also the culmination of all the experience we've gained together as a team since Supergiant Games started back in 2009. Early Access development was foundational to the entire idea of the original Hades, and proved instrumental to this latest game as well. So, from all of us, thank you for inspiring us to do our best, and we hope you enjoy your time with Hades II. May moonlight guide you!
Five years have flown by since the v1.0 launch of Hades, our studio's fourth game! It went on to earn more than 70 Game of the Year awards, exceeding our wildest expectations. We're now just days away from launching our first-ever sequel that we've been working on ever since, and wanted to commemorate the anniversary of the original.
Watch the Hades Anniversary Live Stream!
Join our studio director Amir Rao and creative director Greg Kasavin for a trip down memory lane as they reacquaint themselves with the world of the original Hades, after having been deep in the world of Hades II for some time! And please enjoy this new art piece featuring Zagreus, Megaera, and Thanatos by our resident illustrator, Jeremy Anninos!
We'll be streaming on Steam, as well as YouTube and Twitch.
Listen to the 'In the Blood' Anniversary Mix!
We're pleased to present this new orchestral rendition of In the Blood, the end theme from Hades, featuring the voices of our audio director and composer Darren Korb along with Ashley Barrett, accompanied by a full orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Studio 1!
Get Hades for 75% Off!
If you've been putting off a trip to the Underworld, Hades is having its biggest sale ever! Get the game at a deep discount now through the launch of Hades II on Steam and the Nintendo eShop. And for good measure, Hades is coming back to Xbox Game Pass! Why not dive in again either for the first time or for old time's sake, and get set for Hades II next week -- though, no prior experience is needed for the sequel!
Hades Anniversary Sale @ Fangamer
Our friends at Fangamer are having a big sale on our official Hades merchandise collection if there's anything there that catches your eye!
We're super excited to be working with GoodSmile on this highly poseable and expressive action figure of the Underworld Prince, available for preorder just in time for this big day-or-night!
To everyone who played Hades, thank you for all the inspiration and support! We're so grateful that Hades connected with so many players around the world. If you get a chance to play our next game, we hope you find it lives up! In the name of Hades!
We're very excited to announce that Hades II v1.0 is coming very soon, on September 25, 2025! We invite you to watch our new v1.0 Launch Trailer for a glimpse of what's in store:
If you already have Hades II in Early Access on Steam or the Epic Games Store, v1.0 will be a free automatic update. New players will be able to purchase the game digitally at the current price, for these platforms along with Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch, where Hades II is now available for pre-order.
120fps Performance on Nintendo Switch 2
Hades II takes advantage of the new Nintendo Switch 2 hardware, offering up blazing fast 120 frames-per-second performance at 1080p while playing in TV Mode. In Handheld Mode, the game runs at 60 frames-per-second at 1080p, while the Nintendo Switch version runs at 60 frames-per-second at 720p in both modes. Players who purchase the Nintendo Switch version may download a free upgrade to the Nintendo Switch 2 version if they have both consoles.
Cross-Saves w/ Nintendo Switch and PC
Among the additions coming in v1.0, Hades II offers cross-saves between the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 versions, and the Steam and the Epic Games Store versions. If you've been playing in Early Access and wish to continue the journey on Nintendo's game consoles, you'll be able to transfer your save data through a simple in-game menu.
Nintendo Switch 2 Retail Edition on Nov. 20
We're excited to offer a retail version of Hades II for Nintendo Switch 2 later this year! This version, which is also compatible with the original Nintendo Switch, comes on a standard physical game card and also includes a full-color Character Compendium booklet with artwork from the game, a download code for the Hades II Original Soundtrack (featuring nearly four hours of music!), and a reversible cover. The retail edition will cost $49.99 in North America.
Time Cannot Be Stopped
Hades II is our team's first-ever sequel, and we've been giving it everything we've got for more than four and a half years. Since May of 2024, we've been developing in Early Access, taking feedback from our player community to try and fully realize this game's potential. The result is the biggest game we've ever made, and one we hope you'll find to be a worthy successor to its namesake.
To all our Early Access players, thank you so much for all the inspiration and support! And to all our prospective players, thank you for your patience. We can't wait to share the full game with you later this month!
Our third Major Update for Hades II is finally here, focused on expanding core combat, Guardian encounters, and character relationships, with lots of new visual flair!
About the Update
With The Unseen Update, expect Hades II to be bigger and better than before:
Discover the Hidden Aspects of the Nocturnal Arms! Each main weapon has an all-new fighting style to unlock.
Speak the Vow of Rivals at the Oath of the Unseen to take on stronger-than-ever Guardians, each with unique surprises!
Unleash Godsent Hexes on your foes, dazzling Moon magick upgraded with the power of the Olympians.
Forge Bonds with a variety of characters in many new optional story events that bring you closer than before.
Harness the revamped Umbral Flames, now offering a snappier fighting style for keeping your foes at bay.
This update also features lots of new artwork and visual flourishes, exciting new music tracks such as the one in our new trailer, new Warden encounters, many new story events, and more. We're excited to hear what you think of it all!
How to Get the Update
The Unseen Update is a free, automatic download as part of the Early Access version of Hades II on Steam and the Epic Games Store.
As always, the complete Patch Notes are available on Steam, in the game client, in the form of a dramatic reading (see below), and in our official Discord, where you can join a welcoming community of Hades II players and Supergiant fans.
Development Progress
After more than a year of Early Access development, we're now starting to prepare for our v1.0 launch! We're heading into the final phase of Hades II development, which involves adding the story's true ending and other finishing touches. Please note we do not yet have a v1.0 launch date, though we'll share more as soon as we can. We really appreciate your patience on this!
In terms of what we're working on, after any follow-up patches to The Unseen Update that smooth out any issues, we'll focus on these major initiatives:
· The True Ending: The conclusion of Princess Melinoë's story is the main addition we're planning for our v1.0 launch. We have no plans for additional regions, encounters, abilities, and so on.
· Achievements: With the game structure fully intact, we'll be adding Achievements in the lead-up to launch. Note you will not need to start from the beginning to earn any Achievements.
· Finishing Touches: We're continuing to polish and refine all the content we've introduced in Hades II, from Boons and powers to artwork and story events.
Sometimes the last stretch of development on a game can make all the difference, so we have always taken this phase seriously and appreciate your continued support.
Onward to v1.0!
As we wind down our Early Access phase, our goal remains ensuring we've created our biggest, most replayable, most feature-rich game yet, and — most importantly — a worthy successor to the original Hades.
We have a big game to wrap up! While we can't yet say when our v1.0 launch will be, we're very excited to be getting close, and to share the complete experience with you. This also means some of the most important work on Hades II is still to come, so may moonlight guide us! And to all our Early Access players, thank you for being here, and sharing your impressions of The Unseen Update with us.
Today, we showed the first-ever footage of Hades II running on the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 game system, as part of the Nintendo Direct video showcasing some of the first titles announced for the console! See it here:
Hades II is also coming to the original Nintendo Switch! We have both versions running smoothly at a target 60 frames per second, with the Switch 2 version taking advantage of the bigger, higher-definition 1080p display.
The original Hades v1.0likewise initially launched on the Nintendo Switch, so we're very excited to bring our latest game to the console where Hades got its start, as well as its new-and-improved successor!
When will Hades II v1.0 be available?
We don't yet have a releate date for the full version of Hades II. The game is currently available in Early Access on computer platforms, and we have at least one more Major Update still to come, so our v1.0 launch will be some time after that. Stay tuned for more details later this year!
