Hades 2 was launched in early access last night and is already racking up impressive numbers of simultaneous players on Steam for co-op players.
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There are over 100,000 players navigating through the first sequel of the Supergiant Games.
He has surpassed his predecessor, with the first Hades game currently holding a concurrent player record of 37,749 (although it's worth noting that Hades was exclusive to the Epic Games Store before it arrived on Valve's PC platform).
In addition, it seems that the release of Hades 2 may eventually boost the first game's record for simultaneous players. Numbers on SteamDB show that the first Hades recorded a top of 36,043 players in the last 24 hours, approaching its record from four years ago.
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At the early access debut of Hades 2 last night, Supergiant Games said it was planning its first major update for "later this year" and will monitor the players' comments until then.
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"This Big Update will take a few months after our initial release. Beyond that, we expect to be in Early Access until at least the end of 2024 in order to develop the rest of the content we have planned," the developer wrote.
One of the impressions about the sequel is that "while it may feel very comfortable and familiar being a sequel to a familiar game, perhaps its strongest card remains its power of surprise“.
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“Hades 2 looks similar to its predecessor more and more and more, but - that means two things! - one: maybe I'm still not quite familiar enough with seeing "deeper", into the secret goal of the whole thing. And, two: we're right at the beginning of this journey and it won't surprise me if the game I'm playing today, a game I already love, isn't the game I'll be playing a year from now", wrote Eurogamer's Chris Donlan in his review of Hades 2. "And this is very important.”
Source :: eurogamer
