Hades 3 is not a sure thing, a senior Supergiant Games official has said. The message landed just as the 1.0 version of Hades 2 debuted to rave reviews and strong commercial momentum.
Hades 2 was announced at the December 2022 edition of The Game Awards, two years and three months after its successor left early access. On September 25, 2025, the sequel itself left early access.
In the lead-up to this release, Supergiant Games Studio Director Amir Rao sat down with popular roguelike content creator Haelian to discuss the prospects of a Hades threequel. "It's not preordained," he said. "It's not something we secretly know right now or anything like that." Elaborating on this notion, Rao clarified that Supergiant is a one-project-at-a-time kind of studio. "When we're working on our games, we're not talking about the next game."
The stated stance reflects Supergiant's iterative process—what Rao calls "the game is the design document"—which favors building, testing, and revising in public over locking in long-term roadmaps. Some plans do change early on during development, before the early access phase, as underlined by Supergiant previously confirming Hades was initially intended to have a different protagonist. But...
