Massively Multiplayer · February 27, 2019

Hades’ Star (2019)

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In Hades' Star, you create and grow a space Empire over time, in a persistent galaxy that constantly evolves. These are the star types discovered so far: Yellow Stars As the most stable star type, the Yellow Star offers a perfect setting to establish your permanent presence and plan your Empire's long term economy. All new players start in their own Yellow Star system and over time expand to discover and colonize more planets, set mining patterns, establish trade routes and neutralize the mysterious alien ships found throughout the Hades galaxy. As the owner of a Yellow Star system, you have complete control over what other players have access to it. By establishing diplomatic relations, you can allow any other player to send ships to your system, and dictate your own terms for mining, trade or military cooperation. Red Stars Very early in the game, every player will build a Red Star Scanner, a station that allows them to jump ships to detected Red Stars. These stars have a small lifetime and will go supernova after 15 minutes. The goal in the Red Star is to co-operate with any other players that have ships in that star system, defeat the NPC ships, retrieve Artifacts from the Red Star planets, and jump back before the Supernova. Artifacts can be researched in the home star and will yield necessary resources for trade, mining and combat advancements. Higher level Red Stars offer more challenging enemies and better rewards. White Stars Players can organize in Corporations. Besides helping each other, Corporations can also scan for White Stars. A White Star sees up to 40 players from two Corporations battle in the same star system for Relics, a resource that can be retrieved to upgrade the Corporation and give each member additional benefits. Time passes by very slowly in White Stars: every match lasts for 5 days, giving Corporation members time to talk and coordinate their strategy. The Time Machine can be used to plan future moves, communicate them to other Corporation members, and see potential outcomes of future combat. Blue Stars These short lived stars only last for 5 minutes, during which the entire system is collapsing on itself. Each player can only send a single Battleship to the Blue Star. The 5 participating players combat each other, using their ship's modules and other NPC ships to destroy the other player ships and be the last one alive. Blue Stars offer the fastest PvP action in the game. Regular participants receive daily and monthly rewards to advance their Empire.

Position in Massively Multiplayer

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.6k Steam reviewsTop 90% in Massively Multiplayer
Positive rating73% positiveGenre average: 73% — this title sits in top 55%
Concurrent peak148 playersTop 69% in Massively Multiplayer by live player count
Engagement hours5 h averageTop 97% for session depth among Massively Multiplayer

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Free to Play · 104
  • Space · 100
  • Strategy · 81
  • Massively Multiplayer · 69
  • Sci-fi · 45
  • RTS · 35
  • Multiplayer · 32
  • Tactical · 30
  • PvE · 30
  • PvP · 29
  • Online Co-Op · 28
  • 2D · 25
  • 4X · 24
  • Co-op · 24
  • Indie · 23

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (10)

  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • MMO
  • PvP
  • Online PvP
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op
  • Cross-Platform Multiplayer

Community

  • Steam Achievements

Other

  • In-App Purchases

Release & Availability

Release dateFeb 27, 2019
DeveloperParallel Space Inc
Base priceFree-to-play
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Support · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

5h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

1h

Typical completion time

Achievements

15

Steam unlocks available

Reception Metrics

Steam community

73%Mostly Positive · 2.6k reviews

1.9k positive · 696 negative

Peak concurrent players

148

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