Hades II News

We're thrilled and honored to see Hades II named Best Game on Steam Deck in the Steam Awards!!



Thanks so much to everyone who voted, as your votes determined the nominees in each category and ultimately the winners. So many great games are released on Steam each year that to earn one of these awards is truly a rare honor. (All the more so in our case, as this marks the first time one of our team's games has earned a Steam Award!)

We wanted Hades II to provide a great experience on Steam Deck, and worked to get the game running as smoothly and efficiently as possible with an eye toward the portable system's form factor. Hades II was always meant to be the sort of game you could play for a few minutes at a time or in long stretches... whatever you feel like and have time for! We're very grateful that it stood out, and hope you all continue to enjoy the game on Steam Deck for a long while yet.

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.


From all of us at Supergiant, we hope you have 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.


The Steam Winter Sale is on now, so you can get Hades II for 25% off — its lowest price yet!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145350/Hades_II/
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 here in the Steam Awards, if you'd do us the honor of giving us your vote!


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!

Thank you everyone who helped nominate Hades II in the category of Best Game on Steam Deck in this year's Steam Awards! Voting has officially begun, thus we beseech you to cast your vote for Hades II!


We got Hades II running smoothly on Steam Deck early in development and worked to make sure the game met the system's highest standards. Not only does it run fast and smooth on Valve's portable gaming system, it should be rather merciful to the battery, letting you enjoy lengthy sessions between charges. The game is designed with on-the-go play in mind, with ultrafast loading times and autosaved progress at every turn, making it easy to play for minutes at a time as well as in longer stretches.



We hope you've had an excellent experience with Hades II on Steam Deck and that we've earned your vote, though we encourage you to vote no matter what! After all, the Steam Awards are a powerful way to show your support for your favorite games here. We're grateful to be in the running at all, and appreciate your consideration!

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.

We salute all our fellow nominees (most of which are available here on Steam!), and congratulate Sandfall Interactive's Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for earning that highest honor and many more.


Credit to our illustrator Jeremy Anninos for the red carpet tribute to all the 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)

Open your mouth, Hades 2. Ah, it's as I suspected, you've eaten the original Hades! Don't worry, I don't blame you. You were only hungry, and the modders controlling your great maw were keen to see how Melinoë would cope with taking on the roguelike run through the underworld which Zagreus blazes through in the first game.

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