Supergiant’s Hades 2 is formally set to launch on September 25, 2025, for Nintendo Switch 2, and can certainly devour my life simply as a lot as the primary sport did all these years in the past.
Look, I do know this launch schedule is going to confuse anyone, so let me break it down little by little for you. Hades 2 will launch digitally, as I discussed, in September 2025, and once more later as a bodily version on November 20, 2025.
Now, let’s focus on each and what your choices are for preordering every version.
Hades 2 – Bodily Version
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Launch Date: November 20, 2025.
Hades 2 is now accessible to preorder in bodily format by way of Amazon, Walmart, and Finest Purchase for $49.99. You will not must pay something till launch, as every retailer expenses on dispatch, not order date.
The bodily Nintendo Switch 2 version will embody the complete sport on a card, so it isn’t a digital sport key like many different third-party Switch 2 video games.
It additionally is available in that vivid crimson Switch 2 case, however surprisingly, the sport card will additionally work on an authentic Switch, Switch OLED, and Switch Lite. This is as a result of each variations of the sport are packed on the cartridge, with no price for upgrading the sport from Switch to Switch 2 both.
It is also value noting for any savvy customers on the market that the bodily Switch 2 version of the sport prices $49.99, and is $20 extra than the usual digital copy at $29.99.
And eventually, it is also value noting that it is a timed console unique, with at the moment no phrase on once we can count on the sport past Switch platforms, and launch on PlayStation and Xbox (but when I might wager a guess, it’s going to be late 2026 to early 2027).
Hades 2 – Digital Version
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Like I discussed, Hades 2 is set to launch on September 25, 2025, digitally for Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, and PC on Steam.
In case you already purchased the sport on Steam in its early entry kind, you will not must buy once more, as the sport will merely want be up to date to 1.0. You should purchase it in early entry now to get your obtain sorted, and even take a look at the beginning of the sport, or simply wait for the 1.0 patch.
For these on Switch trying to play the sport ASAP, and do not fancy hanging round till late November, it’s also possible to preorder the sport digitally by way of the Nintendo eShop today for $29.99.
Plus, if you have already got an save file from early entry on PC, you may additionally be capable of switch it to your Nintendo console if that is the place you’d choose to play going ahead.
Ought to You Play Hades 2?
It is a reasonding sure, at the very least from me, however the sport additionally sits at an Overwhelmingly Constructive evaluate ranking on Steam. Like many, I’ve already checked the sport out in early entry and spent a whole lot of my time breaking into the Underworld on Steam Deck. Now, with 1.0 set to launch in simply a few weeks, let me inform you that this is but once more the proper sport to play on the go.
It will go well with Switch 2 so properly, and as revealed throughout Nintendo Direct September 2025, Hades 2 runs at 120 frames per second in TV mode on the console. Scorching rattling! It is properly value choosing it up on PC or your pleasant Nintendo console for launch day, or preordering for the bodily coming later this yr.
In case you want any extra convincing, think about studying IGN’s early entry evaluate for the sport, of which I will go away slightly snippet of just under as properly.
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