Updated:

Dec 9, 2022 1:35 am

Posted:

Dec 9, 2022 1:25 am

It's official: Supergiant Games' Hades is getting a sequel, with Hades II getting a archetypal look astatine tonight's Game Awards.

Further details, similar merchandise model and level availability, were not instantly announced. It volition merchandise successful aboriginal entree successful 2023.

The quality was a delightful astonishment for the Game Awards crowd, arsenic Supergiant hadn't antecedently committed to releasing a sequel for their beloved dungeon crawler. As precocious arsenic past year, writer Greg Kasavin told NME that helium wasn't definite if determination would beryllium a Hades II.

Hades became an indie deed aft it was released successful 2020. IGN gave it a 9/10, penning that it's "a one-of-a-kind rogue-lite that sets the barroom for creatively combining wildly antithetic genres unneurotic and utilizing their strengths to complement each different successful unexpected ways."

It besides had an awesome showing astatine that year's Game Awards, winning Best Indie, Best Action, and scoring nominations for Game of the Year, Narrative, Art Direction, Score and Music, and Performance for Logan Cunningham.