The player's health can be increased by picking up Hercules Action Figures and drinking Herculade cups found throughout the game. There are three rush levels in the game in which the player must run forward through the map and avoid obstacles without being able to stop or fight. The last two levels are playable only on Medium and Herculean difficulties. There are ten levels and three difficulty modes: Beginner, Medium, and Herculean. The game is mainly two-dimensional, although in many missions the player can walk to other planes via pathways or stairs. To do that, Hercules must pass several tasks and defeat many villains, and at the end, face Hades, ruler of the dead, who is also responsible for Hercules' losing of his immortality. Hercules, son of Zeus, is stripped of his godhood and must prove that he is a true hero in order to regain his immortality, and join Zeus and the other gods on Mount Olympus.
The game follows the same storyline from the animated film. In 2010, the PlayStation version was made available on the PlayStation Store. Versions were released for the PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, and Game Boy on July 3, 1997, in North America and on November 14, 1997, in Europe. Hercules (also known as Hercules Action Game and as Disney's Action Game Featuring Hercules in Europe) is a 1997 platform game based on the 1997 film of the same name.