Hades 2 Early Access release coming Spring 2024

It’s been a long nine months since Supergiant Games announced Hades 2, the sequel to Polygon’s 2020 Game of the Year Hades. The developer broke his silence on Thursday and provided an update about the game. Hades 2Early Access will be available on Steam and Epic Games Store between April and July of 2020.

“You may be wondering, why can’t we launch in Early Access, like, right now?!,” the developer wrote in a blog post. “The reason is, Hades 2Early Access will feature at least the same amount of content as when the game launched on Steam in Early Access. And, even though Early Access inherently means a game is not yet complete, we still want to do everything we can to make sure Hades II is worth your while as soon as you can play it in any capacity.”

In the same blog post, Supergiant announced that it will be running a technical test with a limited sample of players shortly before the game’s Early Access launch and, like with the Early Access development of 2020’s Hades, Hades 2’s Early Access release will feature several major updates featuring core content and gameplay refinements based on player feedback.

“We don’t yet know exactly how long it will take us to get to v1.0 of Hades 2,” Supergiant elaborated. “For now, our focus is to keep building core content — environments, characters, weapons, Boons, story events, music, and more — as we gear up for our Technical Test and Early Access launch in Q2 this coming year.”

Hades 2 will center on Melinoë, the Princess of the Underworld and sister to Hades’Zagreus is the protagonist of this story, and she sets out on a quest to rescue her father Chronos from Chronos. Along the way, Melinoë will rely on the aid of her mentor Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, as well as other Olympian gods and heroes.