Average and enjoyable in kind of a remarkable way. The dog care system can feel kind of tacked-on at times, but I don't think the dating sim aspects of the game would be nearly as enjoyable without it. The game is also still getting bug patches and cute little seasonal updates, which is nice.

I marked as complete after finishing one character route, but I would like to go back and do some more. Maybe it's the sort of game to play in chunks over a long period of time, because after I finished my first route I was all... boy, I don't want to do that all over again!

This game gets repetitive. Right? Of course it does. Once you git gud enough to escape once it gets repetitive. Game grows stale, put down game and play different game. But you don't. You keep doing it until you get the true ending. And then you keep doing it until you unlock all the aspects and experiment with every boon and Daedalus buff. And then you keep doing it because you want to max out everyone's affection and deck out the House with fun furniture that angers your dad, and maybe even date someone, or play the lyre, or achieve more pointless Ranks, or do increasingly absurd challenge runs, or maybe you've just become so accustomed to the small dopamine hits granted by this game's satisfying combat system that you just. Can't. Stop.

Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever be done playing Hades.