After a ton of Mario news, Hades II showed up 30 minutes into this morning’s Nintendo Direct and stole the show by announcing it is finally leaving Early Access later this month.
Supergiant Games is finally putting out the 1.0 version of its highly-anticipated roguelike on September 25. It’s coming to Switch, Switch 2, Mac, and PC, and a physical edition will launch on November 20th. Check out the launch trailer below:
If you’re trying to decide where to play, the Switch 2 version of Hades II will support a high 120 frames per second when played on TV, with the original Switch supporting 60fps. If you don’t have a Switch 2 yet, Hades II will support a free upgrade to the system if you own it on Switch and finally get around to buying the new system later. PC will support cross-save across Steam and Epic Games Store as well.
So there you have it. Some folks were probably hoping that Hades II might shadow-drop during the Direct. While that might not have happened, the 1.0 update is still just two weeks away, so there’s not a long wait. Now you still have so much time to finish Hollow Knight: Silksong. If you’re waiting for Hades II to come to PlayStation or Xbox, you might have to wait even longer, however, as it seems like the game has some kind of timed exclusivity deal with Nintendo for consoles.
Hades II launched in Early Access last year, and has been getting periodic updates leading to the true “launch” this month. If you’ve been playing the game in this early stage, you’ve seen how much work Supergiant has put into improving it over the past year with extensive patches, but if you’ve been waiting for the game to be “complete,” the wait is nearly over. Now you, too, can hang out with all the sexy gods and experience Supergiant’s best-in-class art, music, voice acting, and fast-paced action combat.
