Hades: Progress - what gets carried over? Hades guide, tips

This page of the Hades game guide answers the question of what are the permanent progressions in the game, i.e. things that progress to subsequent games.

Last update: 05 September 2021

On this page of the guide to Hades you will learn what is carried over to subsequent playthroughs. This can be important in terms of planning the campaign and using objects that can be lost when you die.

Here is a list of the most important things that aren't lost after death and which can be carried over to subsequent attempts:

1) Talents from the Mirror of Night - this is the main category related to transferring permanent progress in the game. Talents guarantee a variety of skills and stat bonuses. They can, for example, let you respawn after death, lengthen the health bar, allow you to use more bloodstones or increase the strength of selected types of attacks.

You need to use Darkness to buy talents. It is worth noting that the game allows you to level up your talents, reset the purchased talents (you pay for this with 1 chthonic key) and exchange active talents for others.

2) selected resources - This category includes primarily Darkness, which is the most important "currency" for making permanent purchases. Another important category are Crystals spent for upgrading the underworld. You will not lose any of these materials after death.

3) selected unique items - this concerns primarily the Chthonic keys which have several uses, the most important of which is unlocking new weapons and talents. You can also collect e.g. Titan Blood, diamonds or Nectar (gifted to selected friendly creatures).

4) unlocked weapons - Once purchased weapons (with chthonic keys) will remain with you permanently, you don't need to buy them again. It is worth noting that weapons on subsequent visits to the House of Hades can randomly appear in modified versions that allow you e.g. to collect more Darkness.

5) gifts - You can unlock new gifts and upgrade them to new ranks by having them active during fights.

6) projects of the House Contractor - Each purchased project will remain permanent. This concerns both projects related to the House of Hades, and those that affect the lands you traverse (e.g. unlocking a new type of chamber, which can randomly appear in subsequent playthroughs).

7) Fated List of Minor Prophecies - It's just a variety of challenges with very valuable prizes. Most of them require playhroughs and performing various related activities e.g. exploring chambers or meeting unique NPCs.

8) The Codex - its entries are never reset. The Codex expands throughout the game with completely new entries, as well as updates to current entries. The latter may require e.g. meeting an NPC a specific number of times or killing a specific number of enemies with a particular weapon. Statistics for all playthroughs are counted.

9) important moments in the story - The game remembers various advancement actions, e.g. that you dealt with a given boss, that a specific enemy defeated you or that you met Chaos. This can affect e.g. the course of conversations with various NPCs. However, don't think that if you defeated a boss once, you won't have to do it again. There will be further confrontations, either with the boss themselves or a slightly different "variety".