Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a 2018 role-playing (rpg) video game made by Ubisoft Québec and Ubisoft Entertainment.
Greece is tearing itself apart in the Peloponnesian War, and you play a Spartan mercenary, Kassandra or Alexios, sword for hire and heir to a broken family. Choices shape the story here: dialogue branches, romances, and alliances between Athens and Sparta that bend how your odyssey unfolds. The world is enormous, sun-drenched islands and city-states you sail between, stacked with myth, cultists and legendary beasts. Combat leans into role-playing progression, abilities, gear and a skill tree, while the sea and the horizon keep pulling you onward toward the next legend.
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What is Assassin's Creed Odyssey about?
Greece is tearing itself apart in the Peloponnesian War, and you play a Spartan mercenary, Kassandra or Alexios, sword for hire and heir to a broken family. Choices shape the story here: dialogue branches, romances, and alliances between Athens and Sparta that bend how your odyssey unfolds. The world is enormous, sun-drenched islands and city-states you sail between, stacked with myth, cultists and legendary beasts. Combat leans into role-playing progression, abilities, gear and a skill tree, while the sea and the horizon keep pulling you onward toward the next legend.
When was Assassin's Creed Odyssey released?
Assassin's Creed Odyssey was released on 5 October 2018.
Who made Assassin's Creed Odyssey?
Assassin's Creed Odyssey was made by Ubisoft Québec and Ubisoft Entertainment.
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- Companion guide: Ancient Greece
- Companion guide: Greek Mythology
- Companion guide: Lost Civilizations
- Companion guide: Secret Societies
A few thoughts on Assassin's Creed Odyssey
The mythic Ancient Greece of gods, heroes and doomed love runs straight through The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller's retelling of Achilles and Patroclus. For the Spartan side of it, the film 300 delivers the same bronze-and-blood spectacle, and Miller's Circe carries the sea-voyage-and-monsters spirit further.
Open-world games built for wandering off the main quest
Assassin's Creed Odyssey hands Kassandra or Alexios a sun-drenched Greece built for drifting off the Peloponnesian War plot to chase myths and cultists instead. The Witcher 3, Skyrim, Red Dead Redemption 2 and both Grand Theft Auto entries reward that same instinct, worlds so dense and lived-in that the horizon keeps pulling you further than any mission marker does.
Warriors who outgrow their own myth
Kassandra's Odyssey turns a Spartan mercenary into a figure whole city-states whisper about, and these stories chart the same slide from person into legend. The Song of Achilles traces a hero fated for glory, 300 gives Sparta's last stand, Vikings follows Ragnar's rise, and God of War's Kratos carries a past he can't outrun.
Secret orders working in the shadows
Odyssey plants the first seeds of the Assassin Brotherhood inside a war already being steered by a hidden cult, and these comics follow the same tangle of masked agendas. Assassination Classroom hides a killer teacher behind a school roof, Rurouni Kenshin's wanderer carries an assassin's past, Watchmen's vigilantes answer to no one, and the Turtles fight from the sewers below.