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The joy of purposefully losing runs in Hades

It took me a couple dozen attempts to escape hell in Supergiant Games early access roguelite Hades. Once I succeeded I thought I might give it a break; return when there were new updates. But it absolutely has its claws in me, which is how I found out that mucking about and losing is actually way better than trying to win.

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