I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve played a game for only a few hours and said, “I think this could be one of the greatest games ever made.” Hades is one of those games, and until I played it, I didn’t think I even liked roguelikes — I might even categorize myself as a “hater” of the genre. But Hades is such a sublimely nearly-perfect game that it transformed me from a hater into a believer, and there’s no doubt in my mind that it’s simply one of the greatest games ever made.
Hades comes from Supergiant Games, the studio behind the likes of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre — all phenomenal games in their own right that you should play. But Hades is, to this day, the studio’s magnum opus, and it’s genuinely hard to imagine how anything, even Hades 2, can top it.
