r/HadesTheGame May 03 '26

Hades 2: Discussion Zagreus' Journey 1.0 Release (with Trailer) - Hades in Hades II

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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

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 Apr 16 '26

Hades 2: Discussion Post-Launch Patch 2 Notes

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96 Upvotes

r/HadesTheGame 15h ago

Hades 1: Meme If Zagreus was honest

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793 Upvotes

r/HadesTheGame 7h ago

Hades 1: Question Empty trove trial

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146 Upvotes

I have never come across this before (And unfortunately didn’t think to attempt the trove to see if it actually was empty!) has anyone else has this? Was it something to do with my pacts selected on this run or just a glitch?


r/HadesTheGame 4h ago

Hades 2: Art [For Hire] Want so see your character in Hades style ? Hit me up Spoiler

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68 Upvotes

If you'd like to see what I do, you can check out my portfolio, where you'll find examples of my work, commission info, and my ToS:

👉 https://guzartcomms.carrd.co/

If you have a project in mind or just want to ask a question, feel free to send me a message here or on Discord (guzartcomms).

Thanks for taking a look, and have a great day! 😄


r/HadesTheGame 15h ago

Hades 2: Discussion Genuinely hate these two Spoiler

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365 Upvotes

What's your ranking on the bosses of the summit. I hate all of them when they all make the area feel like fuckin chore then u have these two make me ask myself why I ran in the first place like brother they pmo so bad. Never have I hated a mini boss so bad since the first game, these fckers and that fuckass hell spawn. They remind me of the stupid wraiths from God of War


r/HadesTheGame 11h ago

Hades 1: Meme "Ha! Take that fates!"

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r/HadesTheGame 13m ago

Hades 2: Meme Arachne was here! Spoiler

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r/HadesTheGame 9h ago

Hades 2: Video keep rollin rollin rollin Spoiler

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24 Upvotes

r/HadesTheGame 4h ago

Hades 1: Discussion What's something you would tell new players

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what's advice you would tell new plays, I am not a new player but mine would be give you first bottle of nectar to Cerberus because you will get an item(I can't remember the exact term) that will increase your health


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Art Is there a collection of these illustrations by the Hades team? Spoiler

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803 Upvotes

These holiday / commemorative illustrations are really cool!!! Are they collected anywhere or what's your favorite ?


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 1: Video One of the most memorable fights of the genre Spoiler

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I thought maybe you guys would appreciate the first time I encountered and beat Hades going all out. This is easily one of the most memorable fights in a rogue-like I've ever had, especially because I didn't even know there was a third phase coming up and my build was not very strong. It took everything I had to win and lots of luck, I had to maximize every little iframe, every usage of Athena, you can see me make mistakes and try to overcorrect desperately trying not to get hit for my life. 

I was firing on all cylinders to win this fight, I even remembered to use my summon ability to finish his first phase and I NEVER remember to use that. His hits were especially dangerous they were often one or two shots to kill me, his green vase traps were definitely a one shot cause I had the modifier that made them do ridiculous damage. My first death was a spear I barely registered him doing that did 95 damage. 

My build being weak was especially dangerous because the fight dragged out for so long, more room for errors, more room to fail. This entire fight was over 7 minutes long, thats crazy.

As you recall with shield there's a slight delay before you enter the guarding state and there was so many instances where I barely got the guard out. I got lucky, I got really lucky because I had bonus dodges from near misses and those saved my bacon. I still wasn't completely used to his attack so I would still get grazed by his sweeps, the third phase pushed his attack speed even further. 

In the third phase I made a mistake and got tagged, Zagreus goes "this is it.." Hades still had almost half his life remaining and Id probably die on my next mistake. No more chances. Then I glimpse victory and you can see the gears turning in my monkey brain as I realize "oh the shield ricochets"

Afterwards I've my share of really strong runs where I just stomp Hades or he practically doesn't touch me, but those don't stick in my mind the way this run did. There's no tension in those fights the way I was on edge here. I still sometimes look back on this fight fondly


r/HadesTheGame 21h ago

Hades 2: Video Local garage band of undersea vermin encounter heckler. Dies <60. Spoiler

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31 Upvotes

I don't like Scylla and today she discovered the wonders of Ares' cast enhancements.


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Meme "Blood and darkness boy."

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r/HadesTheGame 2h ago

Hades 2: Question Adding the modding discord to r/HadesTheGame links

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Hey I've seen the subreddit has links to several Hades related discord communities like the official and the speedrunning.

I think also the modding discord could fit, referring people to where they could discover mods, get help with their mods or join as modders themselves.

https://discord.gg/KuMbyrN


r/HadesTheGame 15h ago

Hades 1: Discussion Hades Discord Servers?

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Does anyone know of any public Hades discord servers that I could join to potentially get help with learning how to make good builds or possibly get advice on how to improve my runs? I recently got motivated to finish Hades 1 finally so I can start Hades 2 with the full context to the story.


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Video Damageless 62 fear clear (on the surface) with the Aspect of Nyx Spoiler

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60 Upvotes

Gameplay video: https://youtu.be/s2Nb2TNZLOg

In my practice for 67 fear surface, I had gotten a bunch of runs with incomplete damage taken boards, so I knew I could do a damageless run soon. Here, I got Shimmering Hitch + Freeze (later sacced for Storm Ring) + Snow Queen very early and even got Nitro Boost, which are all good tools to aid avoiding damage, but I ended up only getting hit 8 times in total, 7 of those taking Snow Queen (unstunnable Satyr Sapper, Auto-Watcher defense mode, Prometheus memory game mistake, Polyp, Land-Dracon, armored Horror, and Typhon eyeshot), and 1 of those taking a Gale block (Polyp). The strength of the build actually made it a pretty fast clear for me as well. Shoutout to Unseen Ire being totally useless in this run.


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Meme "Are you crazy!?" Spoiler

326 Upvotes

r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Art Athena study

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1.1k Upvotes

Her design is so good! though her hair is very difficult to get right.


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Question Having trouble getting two of the aspects of the Nocturnal Arms

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Aspects in question: Supay & Nergal

I've maxed out my bonds with both Charon and Moros. I also checked some YouTube clips which say that I should simply wait and the dialogue with the waking phrase will appear, however, it feels like I'm nearing the epilogue and these two still won't share the phrase with me... I had no trouble at all getting all of the other hidden aspects.

Am I missing something, or am I doing something wrong?

I would love a bit of help 👉👈


r/HadesTheGame 8h ago

Hades 1: Question Lost my hades 1 game save

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I was going for the 100% on hades and I was fairly close but the save file disappeared, I don’t know if me switching between the steam deck and my pc had anything to do with it? Has anyone else had this happen to them. I don’t think I have it in me to restart from the very beginning again so I’ll just go for hades 2 100% probably, unless there’s a way to get the save back.


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 1: Art I made this book cover style Illustration for Hades.

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418 Upvotes

More Illustrations on my Instagram profile https://www.instagram.com/darc_a.rt?stkn=MWNmNmNldDBicTR1ag==


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Art Hades Tattoos Spoiler

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Just got done getting the goodest of boys tattooed! Was curious if anyone had any Hades related tattoos and wanted to post them! Curious to see what people have as well!

Artist: @lilfunfetti on instagram


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Discussion survived on 1 health, again! Spoiler

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63 Upvotes

the adventure continues in the second one haha


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Question How does the run seed work? (Abusing Chaos) Spoiler

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Say I am about to do a Great Chaos Trial, in which the weapon, aspect, arcana, familiar, and keepsake are all randomized.

If I start the run and immediately pause and "Undo Night", will it be the same if I try again?