Hades II
BANGER · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 30.8h
- Value
- $0.97/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 950, Radeon R7 360, or Intel HD Graphics 630, 11 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Battle 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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $20.99. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 10 in the 2 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hades ($24.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Children of Morta ($21.99, scores 73).
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 5,990 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 30.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 104, 3.4 times as much.
123,036 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
68% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 30.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
1,838 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
If you like Hades you'll like this. Obviously Hades set the bar very high and it's basically untouchable. I've noticed this trend that sequels often fall short of the original at times. And this is one of those cases. Yet it doesn't mean the game is bad. It's enjoyable, and the quality of life is 100% fine. I'd say play Hades before this, or wait for it on a discount sale. But it won't be a waste of money
As someone who grinds rocket league, this game was such a nice break from that competitive of a game. Extremely well done and easy to learn. Story is great. Not crazy about the ending, but it was still an awesome experience. Still trying to unlock everything currently. This game is a 9.5/10
The (credits) ending did not resonate with me as much as the first one, but such is the fate of the sequel :D Great game with great characters and a boat-load of content. One gripe: can't invite Artemis to the hot springs, but I rather not get turned into a deer and hunted down by dogs, so I guess it's fine
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Hades II scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1145350/hades-iiThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 5, price as of Sep 24.
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