{"id":1429978,"date":"2025-12-17T14:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xkpFwzZjVPgVKzYPTsuhfE"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:37:37","slug":"hades-2-is-just-more-hades-and-you-know-what-good-more-for-me-i-never-liked-my-co-workers-anyway-i-say-coping-through-my-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/hades-2-is-just-more-hades-and-you-know-what-good-more-for-me-i-never-liked-my-co-workers-anyway-i-say-coping-through-my-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Hades 2 is ‘just more Hades’, and you know what\u2014good, more for me, I never liked my co-workers anyway (I say, coping through my teeth)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hades 2 didn’t make it onto our Game of the Year ranking\u2014falling short of being our Best Roguelike in lieu of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. Despite my best efforts, mind, so I am once again forced to make it my personal pick for the second year in a row<\/a>. The main thing that set it apart, for the worse, was its saminess. Generally speaking we try to value novelty here at PC Gamer.<\/p>\n

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In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2025<\/a>, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find them all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Well, perhaps novelty’s <\/em>the wrong word. It’s maybe even a little judgmental\u2014but in fairness, we live in a gaming ecosystem absolutely flooded with sequels. Call of Duty has had, to date, 22 whole games. <\/em>Some of them even share a title! Why is there a Modern Warfare 2 and a Modern Warfare II? Shut up, eat your gunslop.<\/p>\n

So I can understand the cynicism when Supergiant, an indie studio that was until now known for making indie action RPGs each with a distinct, potent vibe\u2014Bastion, Transistor, Pyre\u2014went ahead, rolled its sleeves up, and decided to do a sequel.<\/p>\n

Not just a sequel, but a sequel that took the framework of the first game, which was already very good and complete, and didn’t really change up the formula. Consider the following:<\/p>\n