Greek Mythology Game: Four Ways to Play Among the Gods

1 October 2026

If you want a Greek mythology game, there are four good ways to play one today. You can fight out of the Underworld in Hades II, a fast action game from Supergiant Games. You can command an army blessed by Zeus or Poseidon in Age of Mythology: Retold. You can play a Greek god on a little island in Santorini, a board game that takes twenty minutes. Or you can step inside Homer’s Odyssey as your own character, with a narrator that has read the poem and answers whatever you type. Which one fits depends on whether you want reflexes, armies, a quick duel at the table, or a voyage where you decide what to say to Circe.

This guide goes through all four, says who each one is for, and ends with how to try the last one tonight without paying anything.

What people want from a Greek gods game

The search covers several different wishes. Most people typing it want one of these:

• Action with the gods on their side. Boons, weapons and monsters, with a run that ends when you fall.
• The gods as a power you command. Lightning storms, earthquakes, a Cyclops in your army.
• Something for the table. A game two people can learn in a minute and argue over all evening.
• The myths themselves. Ithaca, the Cyclops’ cave, the suitors in the hall, and the chance to do it differently from Odysseus.

The table shows where each option lands.

The four options side by side

The claims about the three published games below are as of October 2026, read from Supergiant Games’ and Steam’s pages, the Age of Empires site, and Roxley’s shop. The claims about the poem are read from its Project Gutenberg edition.

Hades II, the Underworld roguelike

Supergiant Games made the first Hades, and Hades II is its sequel. The studio’s own page describes it in one line:

“Hades II is the bewitching sequel to our rogue-like dungeon crawler, in which you’ll battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time.”

You play as the immortal Princess of the Underworld. Each run sends you out through a world drawn from Greek myth, with Boons from more than a dozen Olympian gods, Apollo to Zeus, and you fight until you win or fall. Then you start again, a little stronger, and the story moves on from where you fell. Steam lists it as single-player, with early access from May 2024 and a full release on 25 September 2025.

Pick it if you want the gods as loud, funny characters in a game that tests your hands, and you enjoy dying and trying again.

It is weaker for anyone who wants to choose what happens in the story. The characters say what the writers gave them to say, and the way through is with a weapon.

Age of Mythology: Retold, the strategy game

Age of Mythology: Retold is a new version of the strategy game Age of Mythology, from the makers of Age of Empires. Its page sums it up as a mythical age “where gods, monsters, and humans collide.” The details it lists:

• you choose gods from the Greek, Norse, Egyptian and Atlantean pantheons, with more pantheons added in its expansions;
• you call down powers such as lightning storms and earthquakes, and field myth units like Centaurs and the one-eyed Cyclops;
• a 50-mission campaign that includes besieging the walls of Troy;
• skirmish and multiplayer on randomly generated maps.

It is sold on Steam, the Microsoft Store and PlayStation, and the PC version needs Windows 10. The page notes that online multiplayer on console requires an Xbox Game Pass subscription, sold separately.

Pick it if you want to build a city, raise an army and throw Zeus’ lightning at somebody else’s. Greek myth here is a faction you command.

It is weaker for anyone who wants to be a person in the myths. You see the world from above, and your heroes are units with a health bar.

Santorini, the board game of god powers

Roxley’s Santorini is a short strategy game for the table. Its page puts the idea this way:

“Santorini is a highly accessible pure-strategy game where you play as a youthful Greek god or goddess competing to best aid the island’s citizens in building a beautiful village in the middle of the Aegean sea.”

Each turn you move one of your workers, then build a level next to it. Get a worker up onto the third level and you win. The Greek gods come in as cards that give each player a different power, which Roxley calls game altering and which is where the depth comes from.

Pick it if you want a Greek gods game for two at the kitchen table that a child can learn in a minute and an adult will still lose.

It is weaker for anyone who wanted the stories. Zeus and Athena are rule changes on a card, and there are no voyages, monsters or heroes.

Playing inside Homer’s Odyssey as your own character

Every game on this list borrows from the same old stories, and the Odyssey is the one most people already half know. Project Gutenberg, the free library of public domain books, offers Samuel Butler’s prose translation, made “for the use of those who cannot read the original”. It marks the book as public domain in the USA, offers it as an EPUB or a plain text file, and rates it fairly easy to read, at about a seventh grade level.

The poem has far more in it than the famous scenes. There is Telemachus setting out to ask after his father, the suitors eating through Penelope’s house, the Cyclops and the name “Noman”, Circe’s island, the winds in a bag, the land of the dead, and a beggar in rags who is a king coming home. Gods take sides, disguise themselves, and argue on Olympus about what mortals deserve.

The fourth way to play is to step inside that poem. You give a narrator the book, and it reads it before you begin: the places, the people, how each one speaks and what each one wants. Then you make your own character and type what you do. There is no list of choices. You can sail with Odysseus and argue against opening the bag of winds, serve in the palace at Ithaca and warn Penelope about a suitor, or be a shepherd on the Cyclops’ island who knows a way out of the cave. The narrator keeps the world consistent with what Homer wrote.

This is what LLM RPG does. You upload a book as a .txt or .epub file, and it builds an atlas of that book’s world (characters, factions, places, items and events) before your first scene. The Project Gutenberg edition described above is a file you can upload, so Ithaca is one download away.

If you would rather start with no download at all, there is a ready-made mythology world, Children of the Thunder, in which the storm-god’s hammer is stolen, mortals are blamed, and you play a half-divine wanderer. It is an original world in the spirit of the old myths, rather than Homer’s.

Pick it if what you want is to be inside the myth as yourself, talking to gods and kings and making your own plans, and you would rather start typing tonight than buy a game.

It is weaker for players who want combat with their hands on a controller, an army to command, or a game for the whole family. It is a written story, read and typed, and it plays alone.

For more worlds in the same style, see the guides to a Dune roleplaying game and a Robin Hood game. For the wider field, see solo role playing games and text-based RPG games.

What it takes to start each one

With LLM RPG you can play a ready-made world for five turns with no account at all, and signing up adds free credits. The current plans are on the pricing page.

How to start a Greek mythology game tonight

If playing inside the Odyssey sounds like your kind of game, this is the whole path from nothing to your first scene.

1. Try it with no account. Open Children of the Thunder and play five turns. A few minutes tells you whether typing your own actions suits you.
2. Sign up with your email if it does. You get a one-time code, no password.
3. Download the poem. Get The Odyssey from Project Gutenberg, as a .txt or .epub file.
4. Upload it. The narrator reads it and builds the world before you play, and you are shown what the reading costs before anything is spent.
5. Make your character. A sailor on Odysseus’ ship who does not trust the crew, a servant in Penelope’s house who counts the suitors, a young priest on Circe’s island who has seen what she does to visitors.
6. Type what you do. Then see what the gods make of it.

When one of the other three is the better choice

Pick by the evening you want. Two people and twenty minutes: Santorini. A controller and a run you can finish before bed: Hades II. A long campaign and an army with a Cyclops in it: Age of Mythology: Retold. All three are well made, and none of them needs you to read anything.

Play inside the Odyssey when the thing you want is the myth itself: to stand in the hall at Ithaca, choose your own side, and hear what Athena says back.