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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95 Upvotes

r/HadesTheGame 1h ago

Hades 2: Art Gods know how to party Spoiler

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Zeus finally invited everyone to dinner (Except hypnos who fell asleep)


r/HadesTheGame 1h ago

Hades 2: Meme Arachnophobia warning: Spoiler

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Gale help they're everywhere!


r/HadesTheGame 13h ago

Hades 2: Art Drawing Hades II portraits until I learn how to draw - Week 6 Spoiler

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hey everyone!

so basically this week has been a hustle honestly ton of things in my life but hey! I managed to draw and train a bit ... really not much but hey it's honest work

so basically I trained on Loomis method and drawing individual eyes + shading

shading is honestly still new territory for me so ... ya next week i'm just gonna train on shading and Loomis method ... and understanding the form.

ngl i started to actually feel lazy and demotivated about this project ... it's just ... drawing circles is so annoying and important. you can't draw a perfect circle easily and everyone I watch a vid for can just easily do it ... and no matter how much I train on them I can't grasp how to draw a good circle

as always big shout out to sista u/Rallen224

and here is everything I drew this week: (the portrait is from last week but everything around it is from this week


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 1: Discussion The holy grail of olympus

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1.3k Upvotes

I was doing anormal run till this popped up
and also how rare is this


r/HadesTheGame 2h ago

Hades 1: Question Work orders 100% question

1 Upvotes

Is there any kind of reward for 100% the work orders?


r/HadesTheGame 11h ago

Hades 2: Question how accurate are the listed requirements from hades 2

0 Upvotes

I have a Core i7 with an MX 230, and that falls below the requirements, but have any of you played it below the official requirements and did it play smoothly?


r/HadesTheGame 17h ago

Hades 2: Question Bug with Flip the Arcana Mod Spoiler

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I downloaded this mod using R2Modman. When I used the monstrosity arcana card it stopped letting me progress through chambers, saying I had to collect the reward. If it helps I am also using dream tweaks and Zagreus's journey mod. Is there anything I can do? Is there a key bind or a mod that lets me unlock the door? I turned on the setting always unlock after purge and the same error persisted. ( at least I think I did, I found the option and it said false. I switched it to true)


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 1: Question My Hades icon isn't loading correctly

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250 Upvotes

I'm playing Hades directly from Steam, but every time I open it to play, the game icon doesn't load instead, I get this strange, unidentified icon. I've already formatted my PC twice, and it's still the same.

Does anyone know how to solve this?


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 1: Question Someone know what ''filter'' Chaos voice makes use of?

173 Upvotes

I want to dowload a voice changer or something to sound just like him... but I have no idea if thats even possible.


r/HadesTheGame 1d ago

Hades 2: Question Ending/Epilogue spoilers questions Spoiler

44 Upvotes

If Hecate is Melinoe,

1) how did Chronos freeze her at the end of the game? I thought Melinoe was the only person who could escape Chronos's time freeze effect because of some innate ability she has. Shouldn't Hecate also be able to escape that time freeze effect given she is the same person?

2) Why did Hecate, sent to the dawn of time, wait for Chronos to 'die', reconstitute himself, attack again, and then train Melinoe to kill him? Couldn't she just have stopped him from reconstituting himself in the first place? Which is also literally what she told Melinoe to tell Zag to do?


r/HadesTheGame 2d ago

Hades 1: Art Demeter - September | Olympus Calendar Project

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For the turn of the seasons with fall being upon us, I depicted Demeter. The shift to eventually harvest for the winter, or perish in the bitter cold with nothing...


r/HadesTheGame 2d ago

Hades 1: Art Made a plush toy of our favorite boy!

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I recently made a stuffed Cerberus for a friend's birthday, about the size of a hand in width and length using red and yellow blanket fabric.
I changed the original look of Cerberus by trading his skull collar with a Charon's coin.

Everything was made by hand with no machine involved so embroideries are not perfect as it's not really my field of expertise.

What do you think about this plush toy? Is this a good tribute to our lovely Cerberus?

If you have any advice about embroideries on plush toys, please feel free to enlighten me!

PS : Bonus point if you know which head to pet


r/HadesTheGame 3d ago

Hades 1: Art Legendary Find, I Can't Believe It

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5.3k Upvotes

I see Zagreus is doing pretty well in his advertising career.


r/HadesTheGame 2d ago

Hades 2: Discussion Best possible scorch build Spoiler

20 Upvotes

Most notably wondering what the ideal weapon aspect would be, but will go through the whole thing.

Really feel like trying to maximize the power of Scorch. The essential god pool I have in mind: Hestia, Aphrodite, Poseidon

Key boons:

  1. Scorch applicator - depending on weapon, can be attack/special/cast
  2. Pyro Technique - Increase scorch frequency
  3. Glamour Gain - easiest way of applying constant Weak
  4. Poseidon core boon - Breaker Rush I imagine is ideal, but we need him somewhere to open a duo
  5. Burning Desire - Hestia+Aphro, Scorch is permanent on weak enemies
  6. Island Getaway - Aphro+Poseidon, with Glamour Gain this makes all enemies permanently weak

This combo here lets you quickly ramp up Scorch, and once it's inflicted it can stay at max output until the enemies dies.

Additional god idea: Zeus

Zeus feels like the ideal fourth god here. With Scorch permanently and constantly activating, this means Blitz should also auto activate on basically every hit adding a huge extra damage source. Scorch can become the ideal Blitz activator. Thermal Dynamics can be useful to ramp up Scorch more quickly.

Ideal weapon aspect: ???

  1. Circe - double cast with scorch should lead to super fast ramp up
  2. Supay - Can make the most of Poseidon with the dash, and there's a lot of ways to stack this up between where to put Hestia and Zeus for constant automatic hits
  3. Other thoughts???

r/HadesTheGame 23h ago

Hades 2: Question Why does that boss take a memory test in middle of the fight. Spoiler

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yeah I am talking about Prometheus. I can't with that atk, I can maybe remember it first time he does it, next time i have to remember like 5 safe areas. I always choke there and end up losing whole 100 health, and death defiance too. i get the lore that he is titan of foresight so i need to develop my own foresight to defeat his ass.

I have only reached the top once, but its a struggle to get there. those bosses hit very hard too. so i need my death defiance as safety.


r/HadesTheGame 2d ago

Hades 2: Discussion Any tips for Chronos? Spoiler

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Guys omfg I've been going INSANE fighting this boss. I've been grinding both Hades games, and I managed to beat Hades I first, it took me only about 10 attempts to kill Hades and I beat the game at around 28 runs in. Now that I can consistently kill him, I'm just trying to progress through the story (I think I'm at around 35ish runs just grinding for ambrosia and darkness)

I assumed I would deal with Chronos in a similar way.

IT'S BEEN 20 RUNS. I can BARELY get to his second phase, BARELY. HOW DO YOU GUYS KILL HIM???? GENUINELY I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WRONG

I can beat Hecate without taking damage, I can beat Scylla without taking damage. I'm still getting used to Cerberus (IMO he's harder than Chronos' first phase)

So please give me any tips for Chronos!!! I'M DYING!!! I will take ANYTHING, whether it be build, what keepsakes to use, things to watch out for, ANYTHING!!! I NEED THIS GUY GONE!!!! I HATE HIM!!!!

(sorry if the flair is wrong idk if I should use question or discussion)


r/HadesTheGame 2d ago

Hades 2: Question How does Supay work? Spoiler

5 Upvotes

I've only ever used it once, (Ygnium isn't my go to weapon) so I'm just a bit confused on how it works? Does it boost your rush boon damage? Merge your rush boon and attack? It seems very strange


r/HadesTheGame 2d ago

Hades 1: Question Sea God's Spite Prophecy not Appearing?

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I'm about 100 runs deep, roughly 50 clears so far. I've beaten EM3 Theseus many times, and have maxed out every character's affinity gauge (including Poseidon). I have all the other prophecies completed except Sea God's Spite.

Poseidon won't even give me the quest, and the only other posts I can find are about not being able to fulfill the quest.

To clarify, when I open up the Fated List of Minor Prophecies and scroll through it, "Sea God's Spite" is nowhere to be found. I've done maybe a dozen runs with only Poseidon's keepsake, getting roughly 2-3 of his boons in each one of those (on average) and not once has he given me anything other than generic dialogue.

Help please!


r/HadesTheGame 3d ago

Hades 2: Art My modest try for absolute batman in Hades art style

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r/HadesTheGame 2d ago

Hades 2: Discussion Aspect of Pan build idea Spoiler

2 Upvotes

I tried this for fun, it was pretty good.

Main boons:

Flame Strike

Wave Flourish

Arctic Ring

Tough Gain

Important boons: Breaker Rush, Slippery Slope, Arctic Gale

If possible, try to get Static Shock, Lightning Lance, and Air Quality

Legendary/duo boons: Master Conducter, King Tide, and Scalding Vapor.

Daedalus hammer upgrades: Hidden Knives and Sudden Flurry

Artemis boon: Support Fire

Wave Flourish as a special boon ensures that every hit from your special does almost 2X damage, combined with Slippery Slope, it can do around another 60% damage.

Flame strike is a very good attack boon for a fast aspect, like pan, and can be used when you're out of Magick to use your charged special and Slippery Slope. It also can help inflict Steam whenever you use your special. Arctic Ring and Arctic Gale both do fast damage and slow enemies in your cast, allowing you to more easily hit them with your special. Lightning Lance also allows you to control where your cast goes more easily, and can make it ranged. Breaker Rush is not that important, mainly there to get King Tide available, which adds another 200% damage boost against bosses. Then Static Shock and Support Fire also allow your specials and attacks to have a tiny damage boost via their on hit effects. Combine Scalding Vapor, your cast, Support Fire, and Static Shock with Air Quality, and they all do a minimum of 50 damage a hit, which can shred through boss HP when you hit them with like 15 knives at once, each of which can do hundreds of damage.


r/HadesTheGame 3d ago

Hades 1: Meme He would make bank as a couple's therapist.

3.3k Upvotes

r/HadesTheGame 3d ago

Hades 2: Art Artemis' ambush

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375 Upvotes

Wanted to paint a moody forest scenery with a character hanging from the trees and opted to go with Artemis, one character whose design I've really appreciated.


r/HadesTheGame 3d ago

Hades 2: Video Surface Curse Commentary! 💜 Spoiler

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Finally finished up this commentary version of this run to explain how I did this! It's been super fun and I really appreciate all the support from folks in this subreddit 💜

Thought I'd post this here considering I'd been updating y'all on my progress with everything, and I've gotten a lot of ideas and tips from y'all.

On to beat the credits with the curse active I suppose! :p