Hades

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Indie games Hollow Knight: Silksong and Hades 2, two of the most-anticipated and highly rated games of last year, picked up only a handful of nominations between them.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

It depicts Dionysus journeying to Hades to retrieve a poet who can help Athens in crisis, culminating in a contest between Aeschylus and Euripides.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

When Supergiant Games was wrapping up Hades, a mythologically rich hack-and-slash dungeon crawler it had spent more than three years developing, the studio concluded it was not quite done.

From New York Times • May 13, 2024

But I give it to his strategists — Newsom saw this future at the gates of Hades and created a unique lane that we didn’t know we needed: preacher to the uncommitted.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Upon the death of Orpheus’s wife, Eurydice, he marched into the Underworld and played his lyre for Hades until the lord of Death, so moved, agreed to return his wife.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson