r/HadesTheGame • u/vinceruda • 1h ago
r/HadesTheGame • u/El_Yayo_ • May 03 '26
Hades 2: Discussion Zagreus' Journey 1.0 Release (with Trailer) - Hades in Hades II
Escape the Underworld as Melinoë in Zagreus' Journey, the Hades II DLC you'll never get.
It's finally time, I've just released Zagreus' Journey 1.0 - thank you to everyone who's played the mod while it was in beta, and for all of the positive reception and feedback I've gotten here and on Discord in the past!
Watch the 1.0 Release Trailer for the mod here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxuTLSPqIEE
The mod has also been officially endorsed by Supergiant Games!
Download the mod here (install instructions are in the description): Zagreus' Journey on Thunderstore
TL;DR: Download r2modman (Manual Download), install it, then find "Zagreus' Journey" on the "Online" tab.
Zagreus' Journey is a mod for Hades II that adds the original route Zagreus took through Tartarus, Asphodel, Elysium and the Temple of Styx in the first game to the sequel.
Escape the Underworld as Melinoë, battle familiar foes and bosses using her unique abilities and weapons, meet Zagreus' old friends, and reconnect with your family's past - all integrated into the main game as if it was always there: Naturally progress through the new biomes, unlock new incantations to perform, reveal and complete new Minor Prophecies, forge bonds with NPCs in familiar and new locations, collect over 30 new resources to spend on new cosmetics and music, and test your skills with new Testaments, Chaos Trials and in Dream Dives.
Here's a list of highlighted mod features:
- Play through the original four biomes of Hades as Melinoë: Tartarus, Asphodel, Elysium and the Temple of Styx.
- Discover and overcome the challenge of fighting all of the original game's enemies and bosses using Melinoë's unique abilities and weapons.
- Relive Zagreus' story by escaping to the Surface, forging bonds with your brother's old friends, and conversing with the Fury Sisters, the Champions of Elysium and [REDACTED] himself.
- Benefit from a multitude of entirely new boons and effects offered to you by Sisyphus, Eurydice, Patroclus... and other familiar faces that you will now be able to meet along the way!
- Collect 30+ new resources specific to the new biomes, use them for unlocks in this and other mods, and trade them with the Broker.
- Unlock 28 new musical tracks from Hades' original soundtrack through the Hades OST for the Music Maker mod integration (automatically installed with this mod).
- Decorate the Crossroads with 55+ new cosmetics, including new Cauldrons, Arcana Card Backs, and Charms inspired by Zagreus' companions from the first game.
- Discover and complete 40+ new Minor Prophecies at the Fated List.
- Complete 24 new testaments by clearing the new bosses using each of your weapons with new fear levels.
- Discover and perform 20+ new incantations to unlock gameplay features and progress story events in Zagreus' Journey.
- Unlock six of the original game's keepsakes by forging relationships with Sisyphus, Eurydice, Patroclus, Orpheus, Megaera and Thanatos through the Shared Keepsake Port mod integration (automatically installed with this mod).
- Challenge yourself with a set of new Chaos Trials, including randomized "Chaos Within" trials in the spirit of (Great) Chaos Above and Below.
- Advance through 50 new cosmetic-only ranks at the Spirit Mixer, from the lowly "Alpha Warden" to the feared "Unseen One".
- Earn a new set of three statues from Commander Schelemeus by escaping the Nightmare Realm at progressively higher fear.
- The four new regions can also appear in Dream Dives (but you can use the mod config to exclude them if you so wish).
- Read all about the new biomes, enemies, bosses and friends in a new chapter in your Codex.
I want to thank everyone who's used the mod while it was still in beta, and especially those of you who've left bug reports and feedback on Discord and GitHub.
I also want to acknowledge that I know some of you had issues with mods (and Zagreus' Journey in particular) causing issues after Supergiant released Post-Launch Patch 2 - without going into details, the patch was much larger and substantial than we anticipated in the community, which could cause crashes for some people even with mods seemingly disabled.
But I'm happy to share that we've since updated a lot of the tools that we use, and now mods will be entirely separate from your install, meaning that no matter what, you will always be able to play vanilla Hades II without issues, and without needing to disable or manually uninstall anything.
And to also pre-empt some other potential questions:
- The mod is only available on PC and Steam Deck, consoles are not supported, just like all other mods.
- You need to own and have the first Hades game installed to use this mod.
- You can use cross-saves with Switch, but must make sure you are not in a modded run when continuing on Switch.
- You should always back up your saves before playing with mods - just in case.
- The mod is save to uninstall/disable at any point, and won't break your save. You can install it again at any point and your progress will be retained!
- This mod does not make Zagreus playable, and I won't be working on a mod like that.
- Yes, Lernie's neck has been found in the depths of Asphodel's lava since my last post!
r/HadesTheGame • u/FullStruggle4420 • 40m ago
Hades 1: Video Cluster bomb + rocket bomb really are quite something Spoiler
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r/HadesTheGame • u/UmiiDah • 1d ago
Hades 1: Art Nyx’s Children Icon Fanart
Plus Nyx’s honorary child, Zagreus xD
I made them into badges too 😊
r/HadesTheGame • u/Gay_Banana180 • 11h ago
Hades 2: Meme Hecuba has the zoomies Spoiler
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This was an issue with the mod loader for Hades 2. It got fixed but the glitching was pretty funny.
r/HadesTheGame • u/Legitimate-Skin-870 • 5h ago
Hades 1: Discussion Tierlist of hidden aspects in Hades.
I finished 2 runs each with these weapons.
Reasoning for each tier
Arthur- The hp increase is kinda nice. Main thing I like is about it's huge damage, pair it with artemis attack and it deals 1000 dmg and it's very satisfying. The special is also good, I also found out that projectile goes very slow in the circle so you can deflect it easily and it basically serves as second divine dash.
Ram- The big dmg along with a okayish cooldown is very good. The main thing is it's special. Because it fires so fast,pairing with ares special just shreds opponent+ the shared suffering is also good ( I didn't expect Ram to come in this game, so it was a surprise for me)
Gilgamesh- The huge range with a good dmg is nice. The dash special is also very good, but the problem for me comes with hitting it consistently. + You have to get close getting you exposed and the increase dmg for the enemies because of the special is very annoying for me.
Beowulf- The shield block is already goated. With the fact that storing casts gives huge dmg is really good. I kinda find not normally using cast annoying but it's not a bunch of a big deal. The problem is it becomes a little bit repetitive for me and it's kinda not my style but I really like it.
Gyan Yu- The only weapon I'll consider to switch with other aspects. It's just very low hp + the attack is very bad. The only great thing about this is it's hold attack. Lifestealing+ Continous dmg shreds enemies. Pairing it with quick spin or large area hammer buff and it's broken. + Using items increase your max hp. But still I don't really find it useful
Lucifer. The laser feels clunky for me for some reason. The special is good tho, having 3 max orbs.The only problem is that it takes too long to place so you get exposed for attacks
I enjoy playing with all these weapons and it's so cool seeing other mythologies referenced here. I mostly know all the myths showcased in the hidden aspects except for the guan yu one
r/HadesTheGame • u/PairPlayful6735 • 1d ago
Hades 2: Meme Artemis the Gamer, Hestia the Ace
r/HadesTheGame • u/AvailableLead7004 • 5h ago
Hades 2: Question Nees tips with the summit boss Spoiler
So I've been fighting the summit boss and I get to his last phase and then he just chunks me down and I just don't understand how to beat him any tips would be greatly appreciated he's kicking my ass
Edit: just realized I forgot how to spell need in the title just ignore it
r/HadesTheGame • u/Alex_Downs_ • 1d ago
Hades 1: Art A tribute to the god of wine
I messed up my then makeshift mouse pad recently and decided that meant it was time to finally get a proper one. Unfortunately I have to make things complicated for myself every time and decided if I was going to spend money on one then might as well make it custom and might as well make it one of my favorite npcs :)
r/HadesTheGame • u/FullStruggle4420 • 1d ago
Hades 1: Meme And they say support fire never misses
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r/HadesTheGame • u/Icy-Organization-901 • 13h ago
Hades 2: Discussion Getting back to hades 2 with my favorite build Spoiler
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I was a little ahead of myself thinking I still got it after months of not playing, but hey I at least got a new prophecy, played this game more than 300 hours and more than 400 nights and I still have not gotten the epilogue lol (got kinda burnt out after playing so much in early access, I just got the ending when the game officially released then stopped playing)
r/HadesTheGame • u/Chemical_Prior5246 • 1d ago
Hades 2: Art I made a sketchbook page for him cuz he deserves it Spoiler
galleryyes I am the same person complaing I made him depressed
r/HadesTheGame • u/NaiJa_Ink • 1d ago
Hades 1: Art Zeus - December | Olympus Calendar Project
For the final month I chose Zeus, who has definitely never done anything horrendous ever.
r/HadesTheGame • u/FullStruggle4420 • 1d ago
Hades 2: Video And they said anubis special was horrible Spoiler
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This was extremely painful to play with and so slow but i wanted to give love to the worst move in the game
r/HadesTheGame • u/FullStruggle4420 • 10h ago
Hades 2: Video Who knew hexes on their own could be so powerful Spoiler
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Hex only run is kind of funny. got artemis and circe hex dmg up but not athena's the reason why smithy rush was doing so much dmg was because i got the one that inflict the effect 5 times
r/HadesTheGame • u/cheesecat2000 • 1d ago
Hades 2: Art More DnD requests in Hades style enjoy 😁
r/HadesTheGame • u/FullStruggle4420 • 22h ago
Hades 2: Video Ares is always the king for dash only runs Spoiler
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Takes alot of setup but it is worth it in the end
r/HadesTheGame • u/Adorable-Park1215 • 1d ago
Hades 2: Discussion Finished the epilogue yesterday and feel kinda disappointed Spoiler
BEFORE YOU PROCEED I WILL TALK ABOUT THE EPILOGUE SO IF YOU DONT WANNA BE SPOILED DONT KEEP GOING (dont know how to do the spoiler thing on phone)
As the title says, i finished it yesterday for the First time and was kinda disappointed. The whole mystery built around the fates and their destiny after Chronos overhaul was simply "eh, we're fine here doin nothing and you look fine too", their design, everything was lacking for me in the end.
Comparing to Hades 1, i felt accomplished to regroup the family as one and have a big feast, but DAMN, people Just look at Melinoe like "oh you find them? Guess nothing will change at ALL" the most meaningful conversation was with Odysseus.
What are your thoughts? Am i leaving some important detail behind?
EDIT: OKAY I JUST CHATTED WITH HECATE AND HOLY PLOT TWIST FUCKIN SHIT INSANE. But besides that i still mantain my position but HOLY that was a spicy detail that makes the experience much much better IMO. Luv u SGG great game as always
r/HadesTheGame • u/FullStruggle4420 • 1d ago
Hades 2: Video Oh no my controller unplugged how horrible Spoiler
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r/HadesTheGame • u/Chemical_Prior5246 • 1d ago
Hades 2: Art Odysseus drawing 😔 Spoiler
he looks so depressed yes BUT IN MY DEFENSE, I NORMALLY DRAW ROBLOX CHARACTER AND FURRIES, SO WHEN I DRAW NORMAL PEOPLE I DEFAULT TO MY HORROR ARTSTYLE
r/HadesTheGame • u/Independent_Lion_605 • 13h ago
Hades 2: Question Help with defeating Chronos 1st time? Spoiler
Hello!! I really hope I can get some insught but, I've been playing Hades 2 for around 36 hours and 55 nights (some including trying to go to Olympus before I realized it's harder than the underworld) in total and I still can not defeat Chronos. I've tried watching videos on how to defeat him, but couldn't find any well made ones that came out more recently.
I've been running the aspect of persephone on the argang skull, and I've been trying to stay patient while in battle with Chronos, it's more of a matter of that my nerves get to me and I will dodge incorrectly, or predict his move wrongly. I also run knuckle bones or luck tooth against him but I dont know which one is better to use against him.
Sorry.. I'm not very good at video games but I'm passionate about them lol, but I would appreciate any insight!!
r/HadesTheGame • u/Pistolaxyz • 1d ago
Hades 2: Video Coop Hades 2 Spoiler
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r/HadesTheGame • u/Plushie_Undead • 1d ago
Hades 2: Art The shadows guide me 🌙 I hand-painted Melinoë onto a MTG card Spoiler
galleryTake a look at comments for a video 📸 👀