Hades is celebrating its 10-year anniversary today, September 17, 2025. Below, we examine ho the fan community has made the game and Greek mythology its own with a vibrant fiction and mod community.
For many people, Greek mythology begins and ends with a few familiar faces. The musclebound hero–known as Hercules or Heracles–has had tales of his exploits retold for centuries through books, and more recently through movies, TV shows, and Michael Bolton’s stellar singing.
Beyond him, most modern audiences recognize the broadest strokes: Zeus as the thunder-wielding king of the gods, Hades as the grim lord of the dead, and other recognizable figures like Poseidon, Athena, Icarus, and Apollo. This pop-culture shorthand distills a vast and intricate body of myth into a handful of archetypes. The pantheon of Olympus, and the sprawling tales around it, contain thousands of figures whose influence never reached the same cultural spotlight.