Last yr, Supergiant Games’ Hades, the roguelike impressed by Greek mythology about Hades’ son Zagreus escaping the underworld, launched to close universal acclaim. If it wasn’t praised for being an inviting step into the roguelike style, it was praised for its characters and narrative. If it wasn’t for that, it was for the music, you get the thought. Over a yr later and now on all the most important consoles and PC, the sport nonetheless has a large influence, and it’ll absolutely develop once more as a result of it gained a Hugo Award this weekend and is the primary online game to take action.

Every yr, the Hugo Awards acknowledge one of the best brightest literary works of science fiction and fantasy. In latest years, they’ve branched out to incorporate classes akin to Best Fanzine or Best Fancast (podcast or video sequence, mainly). For 2021, the Best Video Game class was created after being floated round as an concept for years now, in response to the website’s announcement again in 2020. Of course, it seemingly helped that lots of people had time to simply play video video games this previous yr.

Hades’ author and inventive director Greg Kasavin, who was unable to attend the Hugo Awards, took to Twitter to publish an acceptance speech on behalf of Supergiant. “We’re so grateful that our work on Hades has stood out,” he stated, “and we hope the Hugo Awards continue to recognize the amazing work being done in the video games space.” In addition to thanking the workers and their household, he gave a shoutout to the Greek gods up excessive and down low for “inspiring people like us for several thousands of years now, and may they long continue to do so.”

Hades had some fairly good competitors to beat out: unsurprisingly, the AAA contenders have been The Last of Us Part II, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Final Fantasy VII Remake. And on the indie facet, there was the beloved afterlife administration darling Spiritfarer and the pretend (?) baseball sim Blaseball. This award was created as a one-off, however hopefully it sticks round, since video video games are a fairly large a part of sci-fi and fantasy at this level.

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