This game is currently in the Humble Choice for June 2023, and this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before July 4th, 2023, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.
Not just a simple Hades clone.
Curse of the Dead Gods looks like someone took a popular game with Hades and just tried to imitate it, but that is missing everything that Curse of the Dead Gods does differently. The map screen between rooms is done similar to Slay the Spire. Weapons can be traded out in the middle of a run and have randomized stats. There is also the Curse system, in which the player will get four “curses” with quotation marks, as many of them can also benefit the player and a fifth major curse that’s guaranteed to be more brutal.
Instead of having a multi-act structure, players can select from multiple dungeons, each one having a different set of enemies and a unique boss. Each weapon feels different, and there are a few progression systems for players to buy into to unlock stuff.
But at the end of the day, this is another rogue-lite and if you don’t like the genre, this likely won’t change your mind. It’s a little more punishing, while the player has a health bar, there are traps, enemies, and multiple damage systems, including the corruption which will add curses, and when a run starts to go badly, it’s hard to recover sometimes.
Pick this up if you like rogue-lites. I played this originally on Game Pass and enjoyed it. Now playing it again I’m having an even better time. I compared this as the Saints Row to Hades’ version of Grand Theft Auto. It’s a slightly weaker game, but some people are going to enjoy it more out of the two, and there’s no reason players have to choose between them. You can easily enjoy both
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Not just a simple Hades clone.
Curse of the Dead Gods looks like someone took a popular game with Hades and just tried to imitate it, but that is missing everything that Curse of the Dead Gods does differently. The map screen between rooms is done similar to Slay the Spire. Weapons can be traded out in the middle of a run and have randomized stats. There is also the Curse system, in which the player will get four “curses” with quotation marks, as many of them can also benefit the player and a fifth major curse that’s guaranteed to be more brutal.
Instead of having a multi-act structure, players can select from multiple dungeons, each one having a different set of enemies and a unique boss. Each weapon feels different, and there are a few progression systems for players to buy into to unlock stuff.
But at the end of the day, this is another rogue-lite and if you don’t like the genre, this likely won’t change your mind. It’s a little more punishing, while the player has a health bar, there are traps, enemies, and multiple damage systems, including the corruption which will add curses, and when a run starts to go badly, it’s hard to recover sometimes.
Pick this up if you like rogue-lites. I played this originally on Game Pass and enjoyed it. Now playing it again I’m having an even better time. I compared this as the Saints Row to Hades’ version of Grand Theft Auto. It’s a slightly weaker game, but some people are going to enjoy it more out of the two, and there’s no reason players have to choose between them. You can easily enjoy both
If you enjoyed this review or want to know what I think of other games in the bundle, check out the full review on or subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/e2DNWzOaOao