Every Hades game, ranked
All 2 Hades games we hold, spanning 2020 to 2025: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 430,940 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Hades (GamingPickz Score 9.0), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Hades games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Hades games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
Hades at a glance Released 2020 Studio Supergiant Games Player sentiment 98% positive of 308,085 Critics 93/100 Price $24.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 15 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 98% shrinks to 98.0 on 308,085 reviews, then blends with the 93 critic aggregate, giving 9.0.
What the data supports- 98% positive across 308,085 reviews is a strong signal at that volume, where a few enthusiasts cannot move the number.
- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
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Hades II
Best for: Handheld play, small install and Deck verified
8.7GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceHades II at a glance Released 2025 Studio Supergiant Games Player sentiment 96% positive of 122,855 Critics 94/100 Price $29.99 Steam Deck verified Install size 11 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 96% shrinks to 96.0 on 122,855 reviews, then blends with the 94 critic aggregate, giving 8.7.
What the data supports- 96% positive across 122,855 reviews is a strong signal at that volume, where a few enthusiasts cannot move the number.
- Valve has tested it and rates it Verified on the Steam Deck.
- Small install at 11 GB.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Hades game we can score is Hades at 9.0. The lowest is Hades II at 8.7, a 0.3-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Hades at $24.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Hades, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Hades entries on Steam:
- Verified: Hades, Hades II
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Hades games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Hades series, game by game
Every Hades game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2020
- 2025
Hades II
8.7Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler. (Steam)
Plot
Chronos, the Titan of Time, returns after being overthrown by his children ages ago. He takes over the Underworld and imprisons Hades, Persephone and Zagreus while Hecate escapes with Melinoë, Zagreus' newborn baby sister, to the Crossroads in Erebus. She raises Melinoë and trains her so that she would one day exact revenge on Chronos. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Critical reception Pre-release When comparing a technical test to the first game, Elijah Gonzalez of Paste commented that Hades ' "blend of convincing characterization, witty dialogue, and excellent performances is alive and well here. I loved what I saw of Hades II 's gameplay upgrades, but what excites me most is how it builds on this world and its characters". Gonzalez opined that while Melinoë has more initial "clarity of purpose" than Zagreus, she's… (Wikipedia)
Hades, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Hades vs other series
How Hades stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Hades games are there?
We hold 2 Hades games in the catalogue, released between 2020 and 2025. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Hades game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Hades rates highest at 9.0. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Hades games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2020 to 2025. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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