| Alternative title(s) | Okhlos: Omega became the game’s name after an update in 2017. Before that, the game was simply called Okhlos. |
| Antiquity game | CAG |
| Release | Aug 18, 2016 |
| Publisher | Devolver Digital |
| Developer | Coffee Powered Machine |
| Platform(s) | Linux, OS X, Windows |
| Mode | Single-player |
| Genre | Action-adventure; role-playing game; hero-based |
| Setting | Ancient Greece, with levels in Pergamon, Delphi, Ephesos, Sparta, Atlantis, Athens and Lemnos |
| Notable charactersB | Achilles, Actaeon, Aeacus, Aeneas, Agamede, Agamemnon, Ajax, Amphiaraus, Anaximandros, Andromache, Andromeda, Antigone, Aphrodite, Apollo, Arachne, Archimedes, Ares, Arete of Cyrene, Aristotle, Artemis, Aspasia, Atalanta, Athena, Atlas, Bellerophon, Cadmus, Calydonian boar, Castor, Charon, Chloris, Clytemnestra, Daedalus, Deianira, Delphi Oracle, Demosthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Dionysus, Diotima, Electra, Empedocles, Epicurus, Epizelus, Eratosthenes, Euclides, Euphemeus, Galatea, Galen, Hades, Hannibal, Helen, Hephaestus, Hera, Heraclitus, Hermes, Hipparchia of Maroneia, Hippocrates, Hippolyta, Homer, Hydra, Hypatia, Icarus, Keres, Lycaon, Medea, Meleager, Memnon, Menelaus, Minos, Minotaur, Mithridates, Narcissus, Nestor, Odysseus, Oedipus, Orestes, Panacea, Pandora, Parmenides, Patroclus, Peleus, Pelias, Penelope, Pericles, Pheidippides, Phillip II, Philoctetes, Pirithous, Plato, Plotinus, Pollux, Poseidon, Procrustes, Prometheus, Ptolemy I, Pygmalion, Pyrrhus, Pythagoras, Rhadamanthus, Sisyphus, Sphinx, Socrates, Spartacus, Telamon, Terpander, Theano, Themistocles, Theseus, Thucydides, Tithonus, Xenophon, Zeus |
| DLC | Okhlos: Olympus Edition (2016) |
Bibliography
Clare, R. (2018). ‘Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Player Processes, and Transmedial Connections’. Doctoral Thesis.
Garfield, A.; Manders, A. (2019). ‘Video Games, Homer to Hesiod: What Ancient Greek Content Do Video Game Players See?’ in Proceedings of the 2019 11th International Conference on Education Technology and Computers, 190-195.
Additional keywords
roguelike, gods, Olympians, pantheon, heroes, history, deicide
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