I’m picky about Greek mythology games. Put Zeus on a loading screen, place a Cyclops near the end, and plenty of games expect the mythology label to do the rest.
After watching The Odyssey, I want something more convincing. I want a dangerous journey, gods with personal agendas, monsters that belong in the world, war hanging over every decision, and heroes who survive through intelligence as much as strength.
The best games to play after watching The Odyssey do not need to retell Homer scene by scene. Most of the worthwhile ones do not. They need to capture some part of what makes Odysseus’s journey endure: divine interference, temptation, exile, pride, violence, persistence, and the exhausting distance between a warrior and home.
Some of these are games like The Odyssey movie because they recreate the same sense of travel, danger, and mythic struggle. Others belong among the best Greek mythology games because gods, monsters, fate, and human ambition shape the gameplay rather than merely decorate it.
I’ve ranked them by how well they carry that feeling, not by which title happens to contain the most Greek names. Some recreate Ancient Greece. Others turn mythology into strategy, family drama, action, music, or a fight against the gods themselves.
How I Ranked These Games
A direct connection to Greek myth helped, but it was not enough on its own. I looked at five things:
- How deeply the mythology affects the game rather than decorating it
- Whether the journey, conflict, gods, monsters, or characters echo The Odyssey
- How strongly the setting creates a believable mythic world
- Whether the gameplay supports that connection
- How easy the game is to recommend to players today
That puts Age of Mythology: Retold above the more obvious open-world choice. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gives you the best place to wander. Age of Mythology: Retold gives the gods actual power over the world.
Quick Overview:
| Rank | Game | Strongest Match | Main Caveat |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Age of Mythology: Retold | Gods, monsters, Troy, and divine warfare | It is an RTS, not a character adventure |
| 2 | Assassin’s Creed Odyssey | Open-world travel through Ancient Greece | Huge map and familiar Ubisoft bloat |
| 3 | Hades | Greek gods as flawed, memorable characters | Roguelike repetition will not suit everyone |
| 4 | Immortals Fenyx Rising | Light mythological exploration and puzzles | The humor and vaults can wear thin |
| 5 | A Total War Saga: TROY | Trojan War strategy and Homeric conflict | Steeper strategy learning curve |
| 6 | Hades II | Titans, witchcraft, and darker Greek myth | Better after playing the first game |
| 7 | Apotheon | Greek pottery art and rebellion against Olympus | Older, rougher 2D combat |
| 8 | Titan Quest | Monster hunting across the ancient world | Its age shows in the interface and pacing |
| 9 | Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical | Greek gods as modern character drama | No traditional combat or exploration |
| 10 | God of War III Remastered | Olympian scale and violent spectacle | Almost the opposite of Odysseus’s heroism |
A Greek Name Is Not Enough
True games based on The Odyssey are rare, so thematic connection matters more than direct adaptation.
A lot of Greek mythology games are really ordinary fantasy games with different nouns. Replace “Zeus” with “storm king” and “Olympus” with “sky fortress,” and almost nothing changes.
The games that work here use mythology to shape the experience. Poseidon’s anger matters because the sea is hostile. Hades matters because death has politics. Troy matters because the war explains the damage carried home. Gods should be active forces, not collectible biographies.
That distinction pushed several famous games lower than their general popularity might suggest.
10 Games to Play After Watching The Odyssey, Ranked
1. Age of Mythology: Retold
Age of Mythology: Retold earns the top spot because it treats mythology as a functioning system of power.
You do not simply meet gods or read about them. You choose them, earn their favor, summon creatures connected to their pantheons, and use divine powers to change battles. Mortals build the cities, but gods can flatten them with lightning, earthquakes, storms, monsters, or other interventions. That relationship between human ambition and divine interference feels perfectly at home beside The Odyssey.
The Greek campaign connection is strong too. The broader campaign stretches across Troy, Egypt, and Midgard, mixing heroes, armies, myth units, and legendary places over dozens of missions. The Greek pantheon sits beside several others, while later additions have expanded the game with more mythological cultures.
What places it above Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is how central the gods are. In Ubisoft’s Greece, mythology often waits inside optional quests or expansions. Here, divine power affects the economy, army composition, strategy, and moment-to-moment battle.
There is an obvious barrier: this is a real-time strategy game. Someone looking for sword combat, dialogue choices, or a single hero’s emotional journey may bounce off the resource management. Retold has modernized the original formula and is available across PC, Xbox Series consoles, and PlayStation 5, but it still expects players to build, manage, and command.
For players comfortable with strategy, no other game on this list makes myth feel so active.
2. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
This is the easiest recommendation for anyone whose main reaction to the film is, “I want to stay in Greece.”
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gives you a huge version of the Greek world filled with islands, ports, mountains, temples, battlefields, ruins, political arguments, and family secrets. Sailing between regions carries some of the travel appeal that defines Homer’s epic, even though the game takes place centuries after the supposed age of Odysseus.
Ubisoft built the story around a mercenary whose choices shape relationships and outcomes. The optional Discovery Tour strips away combat and lets players explore Classical Greece through guided historical material, which gives the game value beyond its main campaign.
The map is also enormous, sometimes to its own detriment. Forts, camps, mercenaries, equipment drops, repeated objectives, and level progression can turn a mythic trip across Greece into a very long checklist. Anyone hoping for a tight 15-hour follow-up should look elsewhere.
Among modern Ancient Greece games, nothing else gives you this much freedom to sail between islands, explore cities, enter temples, and wander through the Greek world. Age of Mythology: Retold makes mythology more important; Assassin’s Creed Odyssey makes Greece more tangible.
3. Hades
My story pick is Hades.
Zagreus is trying to escape the Underworld rather than return to Ithaca, but the emotional machinery feels familiar. He fails, returns, learns, argues with family, receives help from unreliable gods, and tries again. Progress depends on persistence, relationships, knowledge, and the willingness to endure another setback.
The Underworld also feels inhabited rather than displayed. Achilles, Orpheus, Eurydice, Sisyphus, Theseus, the Olympians, and the House of Hades all have grudges, loyalties, insecurities, and unfinished business. Greek mythology works best when immortal power comes attached to painfully human behavior, and Hades understands that.
The roguelike structure is the dividing line. Repeated escape attempts are central to both the gameplay and narrative, so players who dislike restarting runs may never care how intelligently the repetition is written.
For everyone else, this is the strongest character work on the list.
4. Immortals Fenyx Rising
Not every Greek myth needs to arrive covered in ash and tragedy.
Immortals Fenyx Rising turns the mythology into a colorful open-world adventure built around Fenyx, Typhon, the imprisoned gods, environmental puzzles, vaults, monster fights, and divine abilities. Prometheus tells the story while Zeus constantly interrupts him, giving the whole journey the loose energy of myths being argued over by two people who remember events differently.
It is a good change of pace after a heavy film. The gods remain vain and ridiculous, the monsters are recognizable, and movement across the Golden Isle feels playful rather than punishing.
The puzzle vaults and broad humor are the main risks. Both are enjoyable in smaller doses, but the game repeats them often enough that players may tire before the story ends. It is also far less emotionally ambitious than Hades.
Choose it for an easygoing mythological adventure, not for Homeric grief.
5. A Total War Saga: TROY
Odysseus cannot be separated from Troy. The war explains why he is sailing home, why his household has been left exposed, and why the returning hero is carrying more damage than his reputation admits.
A Total War Saga: TROY moves the focus back to that war. You manage territory, diplomacy, resources, armies, and real-time battles while figures such as Achilles, Hector, Paris, Menelaus, and Agamemnon compete for control and survival.
The base game uses a “truth behind the myth” approach, presenting legendary creatures through a more historical lens. Players who want literal monsters can add the MYTHOS expansion, which brings in creatures including Cerberus, the Griffin Patriarch, and the Lernaean Hydra.
That choice lets players decide how mythological they want the Trojan War to become.
It ranks below the action games because TROY asks for patience. Total War systems can be intimidating, and the personal drama becomes part of a much larger military machine. For strategy players, that is exactly the attraction.
6. Hades II
Hades II is no longer an early-access recommendation with a warning attached. The full version launched in September 2025, followed by Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 releases in April 2026.
Melinoë’s war against Chronos moves beyond the first game’s escape story into witchcraft, ritual, Titans, and a broader conflict surrounding the Underworld and Olympus. The mythology reaches into less overused territory, which helps it avoid feeling like a second tour of the same divine family reunion.
It belongs below the original because its connection to The Odyssey is looser and because new players will get more from the story after meeting this version of the pantheon in Hades. The sequel is larger and darker, but “larger” does not automatically make it the better entry point.
7. Apotheon
Apotheon looks like ancient Greek pottery has started moving, fighting, and bleeding.
That visual identity gives it a place no larger game can take. The gods have abandoned humanity, so the hero climbs toward Olympus to seize divine power and save what remains. Its 2D combat is violent, physical, and deliberately less polished than modern action games.
The age and rough edges are noticeable. Combat can feel awkward, and it lacks the comfort of a modern blockbuster. The art, however, is not a skin placed over conventional fantasy. It changes how the whole game feels.
This is the underrated pick for players who want something distinctly Greek without committing to another enormous map.
8. Titan Quest
Titan Quest is the mythological road trip of the list.
It takes players through Greece, Egypt, and Asia in an old-school action RPG built around character builds, loot, repeated combat, and creatures drawn from several ancient traditions. The Titans have escaped, the gods need a mortal champion, and most problems are solved by finding a stronger weapon and hitting the next monster harder.
Its appeal is simple. You move through a broad ancient world and fight almost everything myth can throw at you.
Its age is equally obvious. The interface, pacing, quest presentation, and combat feedback can feel stiff beside newer action RPGs. Players who enjoy older loot-driven games will settle in quickly; others may find the historical importance easier to appreciate than the moment-to-moment experience.
9. Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
This is the niche recommendation, and it should stay niche.
Stray Gods places Greek gods in the modern world and builds its story through dialogue, relationships, investigation, choices, and musical performances. Grace becomes involved in the mystery surrounding the death of the Last Muse, with decisions changing both the songs and the direction of the story.
There is no open-world Greece, tactical warfare, monster hunting, or conventional combat. Anyone looking for those should skip it.
What it offers instead is mythology as theatre. The gods carry old identities into new circumstances, then continue making emotional disasters with the confidence of immortals who have never learned restraint. It fits players who respond to the interpersonal side of Greek myth more than its battles.
10. God of War III Remastered
Odysseus survives by reading people, lying well, waiting for the right moment, and understanding when brute force will get him killed. Kratos takes the opposite approach.
God of War III Remastered sends him from Hades to Olympus in a campaign of revenge against the Greek gods. It is enormous, violent, theatrical, and designed to make every mythological confrontation feel like the end of the world.
It ranks last because it captures the scale of Greek myth while missing almost everything specific to The Odyssey. There is no longing for home, little interest in restraint, and no admiration for survival through cunning. Kratos responds to divine cruelty by making the entire world collateral damage.
The remaster remains the available version of the third game, although Sony has confirmed that the original Greek trilogy is being remade. That project is still early in development, so it does not replace the current recommendation yet.
Play it when you want Olympus to collapse. Look elsewhere when you want to feel like Odysseus.
Honorable Mention: The Age of Mythology Series
Age of Mythology: Retold is the version I would recommend first today, but it belongs to a series that deserves more than a passing reference.
The original Age of Mythology established the mix of historical RTS systems, divine favor, god powers, heroes, and myth units. The Titans expanded it with the Atlanteans and enormous Titan units, while Extended Edition kept the game accessible until Retold rebuilt it for modern platforms.
The older releases are harder to recommend over Retold because the remake preserves the core idea while improving controls, presentation, accessibility, and platform availability. They still matter historically. Few games have integrated gods so deeply into strategy, and even fewer have done it well enough to remain relevant more than two decades later.
Which Game Should You Play First?
My answer stays Age of Mythology: Retold. It captures divine interference, monsters, legendary warfare, Troy, and the uneasy relationship between humans and gods better than the rest.
The genre matters, though. Players who dislike RTS games should not force themselves through economy management because it ranks first on this list. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is the better choice for exploration, while Hades is the better choice for character writing.
Grab Immortals Fenyx Rising for something relaxed, TROY for the war behind Odysseus’s journey, or Hades II for darker and less familiar corners of Greek myth. The lower-ranked games are more specific: Apotheon for art, Titan Quest for loot, Stray Gods for narrative experimentation, and God of War III for destruction.
Final Thoughts
The best games to play after watching The Odyssey depend on what stayed with you after the film.
For me, the gods are the deciding factor. Odysseus is clever, resilient, proud, deceptive, and deeply flawed, but his journey becomes legendary because divine power keeps reshaping it. Age of Mythology: Retold captures that larger struggle better than anything else on the list.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gives you the most convincing Greece to explore. Hades gives the gods their strongest personalities. TROY returns to the war that caused the journey, while the remaining games pull different pieces of mythology into action, strategy, art, music, and spectacle.
A Greek setting is easy to imitate. The harder task is making the old myths feel dangerous, strange, and alive.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Games to Play After Watching The Odyssey
Are Any Games Directly Based on The Odyssey?
Yes, but most direct adaptations are older, smaller, educational, or less satisfying as modern game recommendations. The stronger games based on The Odyssey tend to borrow its setting, structure, characters, or themes rather than reproducing Odysseus’s journey episode by episode.
A modern, large-budget game directly adapting the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Calypso, the Underworld, and the return to Ithaca remains an obvious gap.
Why Is Age of Mythology: Retold Ranked Above Assassin’s Creed Odyssey?
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey gives players a much stronger sense of walking and sailing through Greece. Age of Mythology: Retold makes the mythology more important to the actual game.
God powers, divine favor, heroes, myth units, and pantheon choices affect strategy from the opening minutes. That deeper mechanical connection gives it the edge for this specific ranking.
Is Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Based on Homer’s Odyssey?
No. It tells an original story set during the Peloponnesian War, centuries after the legendary Trojan War period associated with Homer.
The shared name, sailing, island travel, family story, and Greek setting make it an obvious thematic companion, but it is not an adaptation.
Should I Play Hades Before Hades II?
Yes, especially if character relationships and story continuity matter to you.
Hades II explains its own conflict, but the first game establishes Supergiant’s versions of the Underworld, Olympus, and the divine family. Starting there also makes the changes in Melinoë’s story more meaningful.
