The Underworld has a new champion. And the Titan of Time will fall before her. Hades II is Supergiant Games’ breathtaking and enormously ambitious sequel to the critically acclaimed, award-winning Hades — a roguelite action game of extraordinary depth, beauty, and replayability that takes everything that made the original a landmark achievement and expands it in every direction with the confidence, craft, and creative ambition of a studio operating at the absolute peak of its powers.

You are Melinoe — Princess of the Underworld, daughter of Hades and Persephone, sister of Zagreus, and a witch of formidable power trained since childhood for a single purpose. Chronos, the Titan of Time, has escaped his imprisonment and seized control of the Underworld, capturing Hades himself and threatening to unravel the very fabric of existence. Melinoe alone stands against him — armed with powerful magical abilities, an arsenal of divine weapons, and the support of a pantheon of Olympian gods who have their own complicated feelings about the chaos Chronos has unleashed.

Where Zagreus fought his way up through the Underworld to reach the surface, Melinoe’s journey takes her in multiple directions — descending deeper into the earth and ascending toward Mount Olympus across a series of richly varied and visually stunning biomes that expand the world of Hades dramatically beyond what the original game explored. Each region of Hades II is a masterpiece of environmental design — distinct in visual identity, distinct in enemy composition, and distinct in the challenges and rewards it offers to players who master its particular demands.

At the heart of Hades II is the same gloriously fluid, endlessly satisfying action combat that made the original one of the greatest feeling games ever made — evolved, expanded, and enriched with an entirely new set of mechanics, weapons, and magical abilities that give Melinoe a combat identity that is both familiar to fans of the original and excitingly, distinctly her own. Melinoe fights with a combination of melee weapons and magical incantations — a witch’s combat style that blends the immediate physicality of close-quarters fighting with the strategic power of elemental magic in ways that feel spectacular from the very first run and reveal new depths across hundreds of hours of play.

Weapons in Hades II are as diverse and deeply considered as the original’s legendary Infernal Arms — each with a distinct playstyle, a distinct feel, and a distinct relationship with the boon system that makes every run feel meaningfully different from the last. The Sister Blades reward aggressive close-range combat. The Moonstone Axe delivers slow, devastating power. The Witch’s Staff blends melee and ranged magical attacks. The Skull offer a unique and deeply entertaining approach to death itself. And each weapon can be upgraded, augmented with keepsakes, and transformed by the boons of the Olympian gods into something entirely unique to your current run.

The boon system — Hades’ legendary mechanic for granting players divine powers from the gods of Olympus — returns in Hades II with an expanded pantheon, new boon types, and deeper synergy systems that make the process of building and discovering powerful combinations more exciting and more rewarding than ever. New gods including Hestia, Selene, Hephaestus, and Hecate join returning favourites to offer a staggering variety of buffs, abilities, and build directions that ensure no two runs ever feel the same.

The narrative of Hades II is told with the same extraordinary craft and emotional intelligence that made the original’s story one of gaming’s most celebrated — woven through hundreds of voiced interactions between Melinoe and a cast of gods, spirits, and underworld inhabitants that reveal their full depth gradually across dozens of runs. The relationship between Melinoe and the supporting cast — including her complicated connection to a family she has never truly known — is told with Supergiant’s characteristic warmth, wit, and emotional precision, and the slow unfolding of the game’s larger story is as compelling as any in the roguelite genre.

On PC, Hades II delivers Supergiant’s signature stunning hand-painted art style at its absolute best — every frame of the game is a work of art, every environment drips with personality and mythological detail, and the game runs with buttery smoothness across a wide range of hardware configurations.

Game Features

• Supergiant Games’ sequel to the critically acclaimed award-winning Hades
• Play as Melinoe — a powerful witch and Princess of the Underworld
• Battle through richly varied biomes across a dramatically expanded underworld
• Fluid and deeply satisfying action combat blending melee weapons and magical incantations
• Diverse weapon roster each with distinct playstyles and deep build potential
• Expanded boon system with new Olympian gods and deeper synergy possibilities
• Richly voiced narrative told across hundreds of interactions with gods and spirits
• Near-limitless replayability with unique run combinations every time
• Stunning hand-painted art style running smoothly across a wide range of PC hardware
• From Supergiant Games — available now on Steam for PC