Hades 2 is at present the best-reviewed sport of 2025 however in response to builders, it won’t 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 one million 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 response to the official description, “builds on the most effective elements 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 develop into 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 response to evaluate combination website Metacritic.
Nonetheless 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 in regards to the subsequent sport. The tradition is basically about specializing in what we have now and if we have now a extremely good concept or have a extremely 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 centered on [the full launch] and seeing what persons are saying about it,” he continued. “Then there shall be a break and we’ll course of this and determine what the longer term holds for us. However [Hades 3] will not be preordained. It’s not one thing we secretly know proper now or something like that.”
Talking about their resolution to make a sequel to Hades, Supergiant wrote: “With every of our tasks over time, we’ve aimed to tackle a brand new problem that stretched our crew’s creativity and taught us extra about methods to make video games properly collectively. One such problem we’ve lengthy thought of was to attempt to make a sequel that would someway re-capture the sense of marvel and delight of its predecessor. A few of our all-time favourite video games achieved this! May we?”
Hades 2 is at present solely out there 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 in regards to the franchise is coming, with many followers assuming he’s speaking in regards to the long-awaited sequel.