Over a year ago, Supergiant Games brought out its first-ever sequel with Hades II. However, just like the original god-like rogue-like, it was only available in early access form, letting players give feedback to the studio on how the development is progressing. With more than a few content updates under its wing, Hades II now has a firm release date to ditch its early access tag and finally come to a console platform.
Announced today during the Nintendo Direct presentation, Hades II version 1.0 is slated to launch on PC (Steam and Epic Games Store), Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2 platforms on September 26. Check out the brand-new cinematic trailer celebrating the 1.0 launch from Supergiant Games below.
During its time in early access, Hades II has received new weapons, each with alternate forms, a range of major and minor boss fights, dozens of new enemy types, and more.
"Hades II is our team"s first-ever sequel, and we"ve been giving it everything we"ve got for more than four and a half years. Since May of 2024, we"ve been developing in Early Access, taking feedback from our player community to try and fully realize this game"s potential," says Supergiant Games. "The result is the biggest game we"ve ever made, and one we hope you"ll find to be a worthy successor to its namesake."
The launch version will also support multiplatform cross-saves. This will let players jump between Switch and Steam versions and keep their progress, all done via a setting in-game.
While the Switch version of Hades II will run at 60FPS, the Switch 2 will bump the frame rate up to 120 when playing in docked mode, while staying at 60 in handheld mode.
It is unclear how long the Switch platform exclusivity on consoles will last, but once it lapses, it should land on Xbox and PlayStation just like the original Hades.