Hades 2 recently got a big update in April 2026. It’s the second update since the full game launched in September 2025, and the first since it became available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on April 14th.
Following the success of the acclaimed 2020 game Hades, Hades 2 has received widespread praise. Both its early access release in May 2024 and the full version released last year were met with near-universal acclaim. Currently, Hades 2 boasts a 95 score from top critics and a 98% recommendation rate on OpenCritic. On Steam, it has an “Overwhelmingly Positive” rating based on over 116,842 user reviews. The game has also received numerous awards, including Best Action Game at The Game Awards 2025, Best Game on Steam Deck at The Steam Awards, and Action Game of the Year at the D.I.C.E. Awards.
Hades 2 Releases Second Post-Launch Update
Supergiant Games released a significant update for Hades 2 on April 14th. Details were shared on the game’s Steam page, outlining changes to Boons, weapon Aspects, Hexes, prophecies, enemy difficulty, and the game’s look and sound. The update also includes many bug fixes.
Supergiant’s latest update focuses on expanding the story and customization options. The biggest addition is the ‘Fated Prophecy’ update, which adds new ending scenes for characters like Odysseus and Arachne. You can now also permanently gift most characters at the Crossroads, unlocking additional scenes. The update includes more dialogue throughout the game, with characters now reacting to major events as they unfold. Finally, players can enjoy alternate appearances for their animal companions and new decorations for the Crossroads Training Ground.
This latest update for Hades 2 focuses heavily on improving the game’s godly Boons, with some minor adjustments to new voice lines and prophecy lists. The changes to Boons vary – some, like increasing the damage of Ares’ Sword Ring, are small, while others, like making Hestia’s Fire Away Boon compatible with all Casts, are more significant. Ares received the most changes overall, with adjustments – and even complete overhauls – to his Sword Ring, Grievous Blow, Grisly Gain, Profuse Bleeding, and Sanguinary Savor Boons.
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The latest update to Hades 2 includes some helpful tweaks to three different weapon aspects. Artemis’ Blades now recover from using its special attack (riposte) more quickly. Players using Pan’s Blades can now combine it with the powerful Dancing Knives Boon from Daedalus. Finally, the special attack (Omega attack) for Hel’s Skull now recharges faster.
Hades 2 Update 2 April 2026 Full Patch Notes
These patch notes contain references to some Hades 2 story and character SPOILERS.
Highlights
We’ve added new scenes that show the outcomes of prophecies about characters like Odysseus and Arachne. You can watch these scenes in the Fated List after you’ve completed the related prophecies.
You can now give certain items – Bath Salts, Twin Lures, or Ambrosia – to your bonded Crossroads characters repeatedly, with new, short scenes playing each time. This allows for ongoing gifting after you’ve built a relationship with them.
Characters Melinoë develops close, romantic relationships with might sometimes express a desire to continue those relationships.
Characters throughout the game now have more dialogue, adding to the story at different moments.
Discover exciting new decorations in the Crossroads Training Grounds, plus a unique alternate form for each of your Animal Familiars, and even more fun surprises!
Aspects of the Nocturnal Arms
• Aspect of Artemis (Blades): Riposte effect now recharges faster between uses
• Aspect of Pan (Blades): now also works with Dancing Knives (Daedalus)
• Aspect of Hel (Skull): Omega Attack now channels faster; now hits cocoons more reliably
Boons & Blessings
• Tidal Ring (Poseidon): now hits multiple foes more reliably
• Seismic Servo (Poseidon x Hephaestus): now applies its bonus to several additional Boons
• Snow Queen (Demeter): the barrier is no longer negated by attacks that deal no damage
• Fire Away (Hestia): now works with all Casts, not just Hestia’s
• Sword Ring (Ares): increased damage
• Grievous Blow (Ares): increased bonus from Rarity and Poms of Power
Grisly Gain (Ares) makes it more likely for weapon hits to release Plasma. The quality of your items (Rarity) and Poms now determine how much Magick you regain when you collect Plasma.
Okay, so they totally revamped Profuse Bleeding on Ares! Now, whenever I pick up Plasma or hurt an enemy, it creates this blade that falls down around them. It’s a cool change and adds a lot more to the gameplay, definitely makes things more dynamic!
Sanguinary Savor (Ares) has been updated: it now boosts Wounds damage and automatically collects Plasma. The items needed to activate it have also been changed.
The Winner’s Circle ability (Hermes) has been improved to work reliably with all Cast effects, making damage happen faster and effects end sooner. The overall power of the ability has been adjusted to balance these changes.
• Various other minor fixes and adjustments
Hexes & Path of Stars
Tribulation (Moon Water) now triggers effects that happen after you take damage repeatedly, instead of just once.
• Decline (Twilight Curse): reworked — now increases direct damage from the projectile
Resources & Reagents
• Resources obtained using Gathering Tools now offered more consistently
• Minor changes to inventory descriptions of some resources
Foes & Dangers
• Sorrow-Spiller (Fields): slightly reduced appearance rate
We’ve fixed an issue in the Charybdis encounter (Thessaly) where it sometimes took too long to begin. Also, the tentacles are now correctly immune to the Morph ability, as intended.
Level Design & Environments
• Various minor fixes and improvements to several Locations
Fated List of Minor Prophecies
We’ve improved how character Prophecies work by adding more details as you play and tweaking when you receive or complete them.
• : increased priority of key events; the narrated epilogue scene now can be re-viewed
• Silk and Spitefulness: increased priority of key events; added narrated conclusion
• Voice and Vanity: increased priority of key events; added narrated conclusion
• Haunted by the Past: increased priority of key events; added narrated conclusion
• Unfinished Business: increased priority of key events; added narrated conclusion
• Soundest of Sleepers: added narrated conclusion
• Denier of Suitors: reduced requirements to fulfill this
• Original Virtues: reduced requirements to fulfill this
• Born to Win: increased priority of event in which Chaos introduces this
Art & Visual FX
We refreshed the artwork for the Fated List and added new images for the Prophecies connected to specific characters.
• Added new banner animation when fulfilling most of the character-related Prophecies noted above
• Added new greeting animation when you confront after a certain point
• Added ambient animations for Hecate while she stands in the Crossroads
• Added ambient animations for Moros while he stands in the Crossroads
• Added animations for Selene when she greets or salutes in the Crossroads
• Added portrait variant for for a particular context
• Updated some transition animations using Aspect of (Flames)
• Updated visual FX for bombing runs by Icarus
• Updated visual FX for Mental Block (Athena)
• Updated visual FX for Colossus Slash (Daedalus – Axe)
• Updated visual FX for Dashing Heave (Daedalus – Axe)
• Updated some visual FX for Aspect of Circe (Staff)
• Updated some visual FX for King Vermin (Oceanus)
• Updated Hecate sticker on her Keepsake after forging a bond with her
• Updated artwork where Chronos can appear in
• Various other minor graphical fixes and improvements
Voice & Narrative
• Icarus now is less painstakingly reluctant when it comes to trying to forge a bond with him
• Characters in the Crossroads now will accept an initial gift of Bath Salts earlier than before
A significant moment between the characters, previously anticipated with Moros, might now happen more freely.
A significant moment in the relationship with Nemesis might happen with fewer limitations in the future.
• Moros now may appear in additional circumstances while Melinoë returns to shadow
• Hecate now has more to say about each Hidden Aspect of the Nocturnal Arms, among other things
• Poseidon now becomes increasingly enthusiastic as Sea Star activates more times
• The audience watching Scylla and the Sirens has new responses after a certain point
• now has more to say about the after a certain point
• Heracles now can somehow be after a certain point
• Melinoë has new voice lines when choosing Sacrifice Boons
• Melinoë has new voice lines for Lone Shades summoned by the Aspect of (Staff)
• Melinoë now has more to say to the in the Fields of Mourning
• Melinoë now has things to say about the unlockable Abandoned Statue in the Training Grounds
• Melinoë now gives due credit if Toula vanquishes a Guardian
• Melinoë now comments when choosing Keepsakes near the end of the Prophecy
• Melinoë now may comment when she can gift Nectar to Echo if she has not already done so
• Melinoë now may comment when new Chaos Trials are available in the Pitch-Black Stone
• Dora now has more to say while in the Crossroads Training Grounds
• Eris now has opinions about the decorative Warning Sign pointing to her, among other things
• Odysseus now has more resources to give you at various points
• Nemesis may in her Encounters after a certain point
• Hecate and Odysseus may sometimes be chatting when no urgent matters require their attention
• Moros and Odysseus may sometimes be chatting when no urgent matters require their attention
• and may sometimes be chatting in the after a certain point
• Hera won’t act like she never met you if you reach the before you find her Boon
• More characters now have voice lines when re-offering their blessings using Change of Fate
• Adjusted priorities and requirements for various voice lines and narrative events
• Other minor additions, fixes, changes, and improvements
Music & SFX
• Updated sound effects for
We’ve improved the sound that plays when you collect Gifts of Night after completing Incantation Bounties in the Infinite Abyss.
• Added sound effect of Moonstone Axe hitting the ground after the full attack sequence
• Added sound effect when setting the Express Route in Tartarus
• Adjusted volume of several sound effects
• Other minor fixes and improvements
Settings
Now you can zoom in! Get a closer view of what’s happening – this is especially helpful if you’re using a smaller screen. You’ll find the zoom feature in the Accessibility settings.
Miscellaneous
Okay, so as a fan, I’ve figured out you can basically skip most of Homer’s cutscenes after you beat a level – he doesn’t seem to care, honestly! It’s a nice little time-saver.
• You may now sort the Archived Trivia menu by Animal Familiar
• The Argent Skull Special now destroys trees in Erebus in one hit
• Added Reward preview icon when entering Locations just before a Region’s Guardian
• Updated text if you just so happen to lose to
• Updated Path of Stars menu selection art to make unpicked upgrades easier to see
• Updated Seed-planting menu to only show Seeds; selection now defaults to last chosen Seed
• Updated Inventory hints for several resources
• More Boons of Hestia now will ignite oil slicks in Thessaly
• Arachne now responds if you take a swing at her
• Added more-festive atmosphere to the Crossroads during
• Adjusted Book of Shadows entry for
• Adjusted camera during Taverna sequences with Icarus to make him easier to see
• Updates and fixes to translations in all languages
Bug Fixes
• Fixed controller vibration not working while (once you can do so)
• Fixed a rare case where you could avoid finding on the path to the True Ending
• Fixed Aspect of (Axe) sometimes missing if you changed direction during a Dash-Strike
• Fixed visual issue where Melinoë could get stuck in the Special animation for the Moonstone Axe
• Fixed Vampiric Cataclysm (Staff) not being improved by Old Herbal Remedy (Circe)
• Fixed the effect of Phase Shift (Selene) persisting unexpectedly after entering a Chaos Gate
• Fixed Lunar Ray (Selene) ending unexpectedly if Athena happened to arrive
• Fixed additional cases where you could end up out of bounds after using Wolf Howl (Selene)
• Fixed Moon Water (Selene) affecting controls for the Aspect of Persephone (Skull) Omega Special
• Fixed interaction between Arctic Ring (Demeter) and Hostile Environment (Demeter x Ares)
• Fixed interaction between Rapid Onslaught (Daedalus – Blades) and Aspect of (Blades)
• Fixed Pride of Poseidon regeneration being canceled by
• Fixed cases where Gold taken from Personal Loan (Dionysus) would not be re-paid when expected
We fixed a bug where the ‘Slothful’ effect (specifically when combined with ‘Miasma’) could unexpectedly cause a burst of speed when it ended.
Fixed Expiring (Chaos) so its initial burst of damage now works correctly, even when the Breath of Eros (Charon) effect is active.
We resolved a bug that sometimes prevented the Prophecy Natural Talent from showing up correctly on the Fated List.
• Fixed cases where you could unexpectedly accept the same Boon twice
• Fixed cases where you could unexpectedly interact with Athena twice as she arrived
• Fixed Engraved Pin (Moros) sometimes unexpectedly resetting its effect in a Location
Hey everyone, just wanted to share a quick update! I noticed a little bug with Dora – sometimes, when she used Vow of Scars, she wasn’t healing as much as she should have. The developers have fixed that now, so she’ll heal properly when the conditions are right. Super happy to see this addressed!
We fixed an issue where Keepsakes weren’t providing a notification when their effects ended and they could be replaced.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Magick not to regenerate as expected in Family Dispute Encounters
• Fixed Lone Shades sometimes failing to hit Polyphemus when expected
• Fixed Gale not blocking the ink effect from a Hellifish along with the damage
• Fixed cases where Boons of Ares could be offered before you properly met
• Fixed a case where the Incantation Beast-Loved Morsel would not be available when expected
• Fixed a case where the Crossroads Renewal Project would not become available when expected
• Fixed Golden Boughs in the Fields of Mourning sometimes not showing Athena if she was present
Players are sometimes receiving rewards for completing challenges at a fixed location, even if their attempt to complete the challenge failed. This is happening in the Crossroads, specifically after encountering Nemesis.
• Fixed song subtitles sometimes getting stuck onscreen while Melinoë and Artemis sing together
• Fixed contextual interaction with the Hot Springs not being available right away
• Fixed unexpectedly being able to open the Book of Shadows while being warped out of
• Fixed visual issue where could remain tinted if affected by Freeze during
• Fixed Talos sometimes throwing his shields straight through walls
• Fixed Eris sometimes throwing Rubbish where it could not be reached
• Fixed various voice lines not playing as expected
• Fixed several text errors
• Other minor fixes
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