It took one day for Hades 2 early access to beat the first game’s all-time peak player count on Steam
The roguelike has now surpassed 103,567 players
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Hades 2Early Access has reached over 100,000 concurrent players 24 hours after launch, beatingHades' all-time peak player count onSteam.
The Early Access version ofHades 2received a surprise launch on May 6 forSteamand quickly made its way to the top of the Trending Games list for the digital storefront.
According toSteamDB- the third-party online database that records Steam stats - the highly-anticipated roguelike game from Supergiant Games peaked at 79,276 players within the first nine hours of its release, double the all-time peak ofHadeson Steam, which reached 37,749.
However, as of writing (May 8), the updated SteamDB charts show thatHades 2Early Access was able to exceed its initial all-time peak player count the following day, and has officially surpassed 103,567 players, with almost 97,000 players currently in-game.
It’s worth noting thatHadesEarly Access first launched as anEpic Games Storeexclusive in 2018 before it arrived on Steam in 2019, and its all-time peak wasn’t achieved until it officially launched in version 1.0 in September 2020.
The roguelike is now sitting comfortably at number 11 on the current top 15 most-played titles but takes first place as the top trending game. It’s also the top-selling game of the past 24 hours.
InHades 2,you play as Melinoë the Princess of the Underworld and sister toHades' main character Zagreus, on a quest to save her father, brother, and mother from Chronos, the father to Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon in Greek Mythology.
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We don’t yet have a release date forHades 2version 1.0, but Supergiant Games hasconfirmedthat, like the first game, it will continue to add updates and introduce more characters in Early Access, all of which will culminate in the v1.0 launch.
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