Hades II launches in early access on Steam and Epic Games Store, also Steam Deck verified


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Neowin— Supergiant Games' first ever sequel has surprise launched in early access across Steam and the Epic Games Store. The rogue-like entry has players taking the fight to the Titan of Time itself.

VentureBeat—Supergiant Games surprise-launches Hades II in early access. Supergiant Games wasted no time launching Hades II in early access so soon after the wrap of its technical test.

VG247—The Rogue Prince of Persia studio pushes back Steam Early Access launch to avoid current Early Access darling Hades 2. Evil Empire, the studio behind The Rogue Prince of Persia, has announced the game will not enter Steam Early Access on May 14 as originally planned.Why? Because everyone is playing Hades 2 right now, which recently went into Early Access.According to the developer, delaying the Early Access launch was the best decision since “everyone and their mum” is playing Hades 2, including the team at Evil Empire.

VG247—Hades 2 shoots to Steam top sellers after sudden Early Access launch. Supergiant Games shocked the world by launching Hades 2 late last night onto Steam Early Access. The long-awaited and much-speculated top-down action game has been devilishly just out of reach for months now, but now that players are able to hop online and play it themselves, they're doing so in droves. In under 24 hours, the game has already hit a concurrent player count of 79,276 in the early hours of this morning (UK time). As of writing, while folks are suppose to be either asleep or...