At least as anticipated as Silksong (yes, yes), Hades II didn’t make the players languish until their eyeballs dried up, he. Announced in December 2022, the god-like rogue-like – we can say that Supergiant Games definitely has a sense of the formula -, H2 opened the doors of Tartare and its* early access* on May 6. In just 72 hours of operation, the title already has higher Steam traffic than its illustrious predecessor, and already more than 16,000 “extremely positive” evaluations. As for Hades 1a happy consequence of the “immediate release” effect, it is gaining momentum from Cerbère and displays the best scores of simultaneous players since its arrival on Steam on September 17, 2020.
Hades II: “You have to imagine Sisyphus happy”
From May 7, the day after the opening of early access, 103,567 players connected simultaneously to play as Melinoe, sister of Zagreus, with the aim of setting the record straight. hour at Chronos. A score which should logically increase with the weekend effect that is coming. As for Hades 1there are 40,332 users who tried to return to the surface by bringing misery to the Master of Hell, and incidentally Father of the Hero (hello Oedipus), as of May 8, 2024.
According to VG Insights estimates, more than 321,000 copies of Hades II on Steam, while SteamSpy’s high estimate targets no less than 700,000 units sold, still on the Valve platform. Attendance figures for the game on the Epic Games Store are not currently known. Officially, Hades the first of the name would have sold more than a million copies, including a little more than 700,000 during its early access. Everything suggests that this milestone will be happily crossed in the months to come. The title is still planned for a console release, with no release window at the moment.
