Hades

Epitome via Supergiant Games

Hades, the superb roguelike action dungeon crawler from Supergiant Games has get the kickoff video game to ever win a Hugo Accolade. Hades was an enormous success for the studio upon leaving early on admission in 2022, beingness met with rave reviews from critics and players alike.

The Hugo Awards are a long-running and prestigious award in the realms of fantasy and science fiction literature, with some of the most successful and prominent authors in history picking up the honour over the years. Winners of the awards include such luminaries every bit North.Grand. Jemisin, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke. This is the start year that the Hugos take given an award for video games.

Hades crush off contest from the likes of Final Fantasy seven Remake, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, The Last of U.s. two, and Spiritfarer. While the award is not permanent, the Hugos are currently considering calculation a category for video games to future award seasons.

Greg Kasavin, the Creative Director at Supergiant Games and writer of Hades, said in a video posted to Twitter that the team was "incredibly honored" to exist the recipients of the honor. Hades was instantly impressive non merely for the slick action, but as well for the incredibly interesting writing and story that unfolded as players attempted to help Zagreus, the son of Hades, to escape from his male parent's realm.