SSG is a bold studio. A story heavy roguelite should be an oxymoron doomed to fail from the onset, a hybrid that satisfies neither its obsessivly-replaying gameplay junkies nor the story-driven weirdos who tend to be SSG's audience who wanna see the tale's end (or just wanna get in Thanatos' pants (does he even wear pants?)).

By now it's clear it's an astounding success, managing to appeal to both and in my case fusing the two sides of the Gameplay Goblin and the Story Snob, making them work in tandem to see as much of the game as I could.

The story is, for once, really solid and well-structured, being held up by its tremendously well-written (and well-illustrated) cast. Hades in particular is the most captivating, the most well-rounded and he manages to steal the show whenever he's on screen (if you buy the house contractor upgrades while he's gone you are missing out big time). Big props for actually understanding Greek mythology and updating it quite well to our modern sensibilities (as much as you can when adapting stories where a good chunk of the pantheon is born of incest).

All in all, the largest praise I can give the game is: I didn't want to quit after 10 hours, on the contrary, I was yearning for more. Pyre is still my favourite from the studio, buit had it been even just an hour longer I would have thrown the whole thing out of my pc. Here I played for >85 hours. It's the most solid out of SSG's catalogue and its wealth of content justifies the obscene hours of playtime me and others have accumulated in the Underworld.

Also you can fall in love with a cute Gorgon and this alone makes it an 11/10.