Supergiant Games’ critically acclaimed title Hades is now the highest rated game on the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5.
The roguelike dungeon crawler was originally released forPCandSwitchin September 2020 to great praise.
It went on to win Game of the Year at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards, as well as Best Design and Best Audio.
Hades was released onXboxandPlayStationconsoles on August 13, and a week later the game is now the highest rated title on Series X/S and PS5, based on review aggregation site Metacritic, as noted byTwisted Voxel.
ThePlayStation 5version currently has aMetacritic score of 93, which puts it above the likes ofDemon’s Souls(92), Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 (90) andFinal Fantasy VII RemakeIntergrade (89).
Meanwhile, the Xbox Series X/S version sits at94 on Metacritic, putting it ahead ofMicrosoftFlight Simulator(90),It Takes Two(89) and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 (89).
The Switch versionis in joint fourth placewith a Metacritic score of 93. Of the thousands of games released for the Switch in the past four and a half years, the only three games to be scored higher areSuper Mario Odyssey(97),The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild(97) and The House in Fata Morgana (98).
Hades developer Supergiant was namedVGC’s Studio of the Year for 2020.
“Hades has laid groundwork that we hope companies follow for years to come,” wrote Jordan Middler. “It’s certainly not the first game to come from early access and be a success story, but it’s unique in the sense that there’s no caveat.
“Supergiant made a game as transparently as possible, while protecting their staff and releasing in the most difficult year for game development in recent memory.”
