Supergiant Games Has A Sequel In The Years And Hades II Announces – News

Beautiful, fluid, addictive, subtle: Hades He came to set the rogue-like world on fire, first setting off the embers of his early access on PC in 2018 before exploding against the world on consoles (Switch in 2020, PlayStation and Xbox in 2021). After reading this trailer, all the qualities of the first opus seem to be present in this sequel featuring Melinoë, the new protagonist responsible for defeating not Hades but Cronos, a colossus who personifies time. “And time can’t stopAn old acquaintance laments in a tired voice.

Thank you for everything, Zagres

“It is a direct sequel that takes place some time after the events of the original game. No prior knowledge of the original Hades game is required, although there are many connectionsSupergiant Games explains. The immortal princess of the underworld, the sorceress Melinoë is also the sister of Zagreus, the protagonist of the first Hades. Like her brother, she can count on the somewhat caring support of a large part of the gods of Olympus, in a quest that will once again rely on the art of repetition.

While it was successfulHades II It seems it couldn’t be more foolproof, Supergiant Games has decided to marry the same formula as its predecessor. So, the game will debut in 2023 in Early Access, with the notable difference that Steam will be there from the start as well as the Epic Games Store. Keyboards will wait their turn but they won’t be forgotten. “We will announce the platforms the game will be available on as it nears completionWe can read on questions and answers. This also tells us that the team has started working on it Hades II In early 2021 and no multiplayer functionality is planned.

It must be said that despite the game’s massive success, Supergiant Games has not caught on to delusions of grandeur and has only twenty good developers in its ranks, hardly more than Hades The first of the name. The seven members of the founding team of stronghold She has been working on all of the studio’s games since 2009, notably Greg Kasavin on writing, Gene Zee on art direction and Darren Korb on music. The cinematic for the trailer is for its part signed to Studio Grackle, who already composed the opening cinematic for the first Hades. In short, we are in good hands.