Hades
BANGER · Roguelike · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 23.4h
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB VRAM / DirectX 10+ support, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
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
The lowest price on record is $6.24, set in September 2025. It has been discounted 54 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Hades II ($29.99, scores 91) and Overture ($4.99, scores 40), are both worse buys on this math.
6 of the 798 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 317 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 7,721 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 23.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 95, 4.1 times as much.
Still 2.3K concurrent players, 6 years in.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
82% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 23.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
2,253 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
The only game i've seen that makes death not a punishment but an oppurtunity. Yes, you can pet the dog.
This game genuinely hit like a crack to a drug addict and this is coming from someone who never play's any rogue-like or rogue-lite games before. You can keep playing all day long looking for new interaction's and boon's combo's, every little dialogue is unique and 70% of it is always funny in some way especially Zagreus and Hades sarcastic nature, always gotta be my favourite interactions when you renovating the...
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 scores 95/100 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/1145360/hadesThe 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 11, price as of Sep 24.
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