Supergiant Games, the makers of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre tonight each introduced and launched their subsequent game. Hades is its identify, and roguelikelike hack ‘n’ slash dungeon-crawling is its game. And as you’d anticipate from Supergiant, it’s obtained a vibrant illustrated fashion and a little bit of a twang to its sound. It launched into early entry alongside its announcement and, curiously, is at the moment unique to Epic’s new retailer. Here, have a watch.
That’s a Supergiant-lookin’ game proper there.
Hades is on Epic’s store now for £18/$20. They say it’ll keep there whereas in early entry, however they “expect Hades will eventually be available on a variety of platforms, once early access is complete.” They anticipate it to be in improvement for not less than one other year-and-a-half. But why early entry this time?
“From the moment we started to imagine the concept for Hades, we’ve been excited to create a game we could continue building and improving once it was in your hands,” they say. “We think developing Hades in Early Access is key to making it the best game it can be, which is our goal.”
Epic do offer developers a better cut that Steam, however I’d wager they provided an entire lot extra on prime of that to get this sizzling scloosie from Supergiant.
Tonight’s announcement got here from The Game Awards, the ‘Oscars but video games’ marketing-o-rama the place Geoff Keighley bantered on stage with a grown man dressed as a bandicoot in denim cut-offs.
