Odysseus: Homecoming

Become Odysseus and find your way home in a choice-driven adventure through Greek myth.

Realistic scene art, video, and voiced characters bring the battlefields and seas of ancient Greece to life. From the burning walls of Troy to a storm-tossed sea at night, you are invited on Odysseus's voyage home.

The war with Troy has dragged on for ten years. Unable to break through the city's walls by force, the Greeks leave behind a giant wooden horse and pretend to sail away, and the Trojans haul the horse inside their city. Hidden in its belly are Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and thirty warriors. Tonight they will open the gates and end the war. Then Odysseus must lead twelve ships and six hundred men home to Ithaca, where his wife and son are waiting.

In this game you are Odysseus, and at every crossroads in the story you decide what he does. A single decision can save your men or get them killed, and Odysseus himself may not survive. Whose word will you trust, and whom should you fear?

The fighting does not end when Troy falls. The victorious Greek kings begin to quarrel among themselves, and the ghost of Achilles, the great hero who died in the war, even makes a shocking demand. On the sea road home wait storms, strangers in unknown lands, a one-eyed giant, a witch, the spirits of the dead, and other mysterious beings.

The story is based on Homer's Odyssey, but no knowledge of mythology is needed. You may reach the ending Homer told, or one that is entirely your own. Begin a homecoming that belongs to you alone.