Is Hades worth getting this early on?

I think I got the gist of it regarding Sybil and the Camerata's desire to stop the city's constant change, but is it ever confirmed what was real in the end? Was the Transistor just a virtual world within another virtual world? Was Red basically the last survivor of humanity or did she simply not want to go on without her lover?

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pyre left the longest impression on me tbqh even though it's probably the worst "game" of the lot

transistor had the best ost

It's up to you to decide. I prefer to see it as Red left the transistor with Royce inside, and fixed enough of the world to get to her lover and left this world for the transistors world in her lovers arms, because no matter how idealic a world she could create it didn't matter to her if she didn't have him.

Someday.

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Oh fuck, Hades is from Supergiant? I'll have to pick that up then, I completely missed that. Pyre wasn't for me, but everything else was a 10/10

Pyre > Transistor > Bastion

Hades is great. It's fun even in this early stage.
2 out of 4 zones in
5 out of 6 weapons (including a fucking automatic rifle of all things)
7 out of 8 gods to get boons from
Some story characters to add
Story moments to add in as well
Unlike all other Supergiant games the gameplay is currently better then the story. It's basically a mastered version of Bastion's gameplay distinct weapons deciding your playstyle but with the crazy ability combining of Transistor. It keeps me coming back even when no new content has been added just to try out shit.
It's up to you to decide if this is worth going through the hoop of Epic Games store. Which might I say is cancerous.

Transistor. Pyre has the best soundtrack and story. But Transistor is best overall. Although saving Zulf in bastion will always be the single greatest moment in their games.

So the story development's roughly half done? I'd probably get it now if not for the minor hassle of having to make an Epic Games account as you say.

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I feel like a lot of people who gave Pyre a real chance think that it's Supergiant's best story. But a lot of people also looked at the sports mechanics in the trailer and immediately wrote it off.

I probably would have done the same sadly, if I wasn't already a fan of supergiant's stuff.

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Well, every game of theirs was a personal 9.5/10 - so it's a fairly safe bet that Hades is going to be good. As safe as it gets I guess.

Best game: probably Bastion
Best OST: Pyre
Best total package: Transistor, winning by the width of a graphene sheet

>And it's the first time that a game has had my heart racing in ages because it actually plays around with consequences if you lose.
I was genuinely pissed when the refs didn't call out those cheating harpies for playing offsides. But it was actually interesting to see all the character interactions that resulted from my first major loss.

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That's cool. I always liked the general variety of Bastion's weapon combat, but thought it had balancing issues where enemy encounters were either mowed down left and right or they became tedious damage sponges.

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Bastion
Bastion
That level where you carry zulf was pure kino

I should note that all that stuff I listed is stuff they want in by the end of the year then they'll finish it up and get it out of early access next year.
But the story isn't like the story in all their other games.
In between runs you have conversations with characters in the house of Hades which have their own little stories (For example helping Orpheus, the court musician sing again by telling him exaggerated stories of your deeds.) Across the dozens of runs I've done there's only been 1 moment which has really advanced the main story in any way and it was a flashback. But it's a rogue-like, the story can't be typical.
They have even sort of integrated the fact its early access with the story. Whenever you get past the 2nd area the narrator will say one of surprisingly many lines about Zagreus having an off-screen death and there's this funny meta conversation Zag has with Hades about the rest of the underworld being "under renovation".

It's hard to assess exactly how "done" the story is. But there will be an ending.

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How do you even beat this?
youtu.be/_ZduC-OCXB8

I see. I'm cool with that as long as the characters are still enjoyable, and as long as the rogue-like aspects still leave room for a few structured musical moments.

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The music is unique like their all games. Being mostly strings and flutes which very much brings to mind the ancient Mediterranean but during boss fights and when facing elite enemies it shifts into the same songs but metal versions of them.
There's also two vocal songs both sung by Darren Korb like other games but ina high-pitched falsetto voice like it would in ancient Greece
youtube.com/watch?v=Oll7pr4JVTQ

youtube.com/watch?v=3DkiFCQQcFs
I like this one because it plays after Dionysus suggests you tell Orpheus that you and Dionysus are the same person which itself is a reference to the fact in actual real life greek myth Zagreus was sometimes interpreted as another name for Dionysus.

I wish I knew what genre this qualified as, because I still can't find anything else quite like it.

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Pyre, for both

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youtube.com/watch?v=gr03nRLbWos
It's own genre. Acoustic frontier trip-hop.