Hades
Synnical77 Mar 2, 2023 @ 12:04pm
What is the endiest ending to Hades?
It's hard to discern where the 'true' ending to Hades is.

Beat Hades once. Nope.
Beat Hades 10 times. Nope.
Get all the gods to go to the dinner party. Nope.

Is there a final, final end point? Like, a final, final boss or a final, final end point to the story?
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werwolfgaming Mar 2, 2023 @ 12:11pm 
To get the true ending you will need to exhaust all of Persephone's dialogue with Zagreus, which means speaking to her a total of ten times, including the first. That also means toppling Hades 9 more times

The true ending is the 10 wins over hades
Synnical77 Mar 2, 2023 @ 12:21pm 
Originally posted by werwolfgaming:
To get the true ending you will need to exhaust all of Persephone's dialogue with Zagreus, which means speaking to her a total of ten times, including the first. That also means toppling Hades 9 more times

The true ending is the 10 wins over hades

Right, but defeating hades 10 times brings Persephone back home and unlocks another really lengthy quest involving getting bonded to all the gods and getting them to a dinner party and a cutscene to go with that.

So,
Ending 1, Beat Hades once
Ending 2, Beat Hades 10 times
Ending 3, Have god party

Are there another other endings?
Last edited by Synnical77; Mar 2, 2023 @ 12:21pm
Nibbie Mar 2, 2023 @ 12:29pm 
Originally posted by Synnical77:
Originally posted by werwolfgaming:
To get the true ending you will need to exhaust all of Persephone's dialogue with Zagreus, which means speaking to her a total of ten times, including the first. That also means toppling Hades 9 more times

The true ending is the 10 wins over hades

Right, but defeating hades 10 times brings Persephone back home and unlocks another really lengthy quest involving getting bonded to all the gods and getting them to a dinner party and a cutscene to go with that.

So,
Ending 1, Beat Hades once
Ending 2, Beat Hades 10 times
Ending 3, Have god party

Are there another other endings?

The credits only roll once, there is your ending.

"Ending 1" isn't an ending at all, not sure why you would really consider that one, especially just that one and not the other 8.
"Ending 3" is called the epilogue. I'm no literary expert, so I guess that depends on whether an epilogue is considered to be the ending, just part of the ending, or after the ending.

If you mean "is there a point that the story will never progress at all", you can technically run everyone out of dialogue which would fulfil that condition, but a "true ending" like you seem to be looking for kind of would kind of run counter to the game being a roguelike. You always need to be able to do another run.
Last edited by Nibbie; Mar 2, 2023 @ 12:29pm
Originally posted by Synnical77:
It's hard to discern where the 'true' ending to Hades is.

Beat Hades once. Nope.
Beat Hades 10 times. Nope.
Get all the gods to go to the dinner party. Nope.

Is there a final, final end point? Like, a final, final boss or a final, final end point to the story?

Hades is a roguelite, there's no fixed end point, you can keep playing forever. The normal ending is achieved after your tenth clear. Then there's the short epilogue you can get after a lot more effort.

Beyond that, there's any remaining story threads with the NPCs you can finish. When those are all finished, there's leveling your rank at the Resource Director, pushing heat as high as possible, etc. The final end point is simply when you get bored of the game and no longer want to play.
roymaster45 Mar 2, 2023 @ 5:16pm 
Originally posted by Synnical77:
Originally posted by werwolfgaming:
To get the true ending you will need to exhaust all of Persephone's dialogue with Zagreus, which means speaking to her a total of ten times, including the first. That also means toppling Hades 9 more times

The true ending is the 10 wins over hades

Right, but defeating hades 10 times brings Persephone back home and unlocks another really lengthy quest involving getting bonded to all the gods and getting them to a dinner party and a cutscene to go with that.

So,
Ending 1, Beat Hades once
Ending 2, Beat Hades 10 times
Ending 3, Have god party

Are there another other endings?

Nope, the dinner party with all the gods (which most people consider to be more of an "epilogue", but that's getting into semantics) is the last major story bit you get. Past that, it's just exhausting everyone's dialogue and Zagreus continuing to work as a "security tester/consultant" for the Underworld for eternity.
Synnical77 Mar 2, 2023 @ 5:21pm 
Originally posted by roymaster45:
Originally posted by Synnical77:

Right, but defeating hades 10 times brings Persephone back home and unlocks another really lengthy quest involving getting bonded to all the gods and getting them to a dinner party and a cutscene to go with that.

So,
Ending 1, Beat Hades once
Ending 2, Beat Hades 10 times
Ending 3, Have god party

Are there another other endings?

Nope, the dinner party with all the gods (which most people consider to be more of an "epilogue", but that's getting into semantics) is the last major story bit you get. Past that, it's just exhausting everyone's dialogue and Zagreus continuing to work as a "security tester/consultant" for the Underworld for eternity.

Thankyou.
Serimner1 Mar 3, 2023 @ 4:18am 
The title gave me a good chuckle "endiest ending". =D
alexfavron Jun 2, 2023 @ 10:22pm 
For sure, when you'll reach rank 50 you will say: I'm DONE !
admiral1018 Jun 3, 2023 @ 10:28am 
Epilogue is the end to the main story, but there are usually side stories that aren't finished by that point. Namely the Hypnos and Dusa/Nyx side stories.
CASH MONEY Jun 3, 2023 @ 1:10pm 
god party is the final ending
ReZisT Lust Jun 16, 2023 @ 9:49pm 
You purchase Aphrodites Poster, stare at it for an hour and then go die happy.
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