The Odyssey: Winds of Athena

God Game : The Odyssey

I always thought Athena was the goddess of war and wisdom, not wind. That aside, interesting concept but the controls feel kinda jank.

They said I'm goddess Athena.
So at 2nd level I sinked all ships, turned off game and went play with my divine boobs.

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Gameplay is clunky and frustrating.

"The Odyssey: Winds of Athena" is an ancient game from 2006. It's a whopping 18 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware.

The game itself was never a winner... at first glance you might think this is some cool god management game like Populous, but it's much more shallow than that. It's more like Lemmings, if you ask me. There's a bunch of boats in each single screen puzzle level, and you need to get them from the entry to the exit. How? By controlling the wind (the boats will steer to the exit) and creating ocean currents and other things to push them away from obstacles. Get all the boats to the exit and you can go on to the next puzzle level. That's all there is to this... a somewhat shallow kind of puzzle game.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. Due to the age of the game it's locked on 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio, another reason this just won't look right. That's enough to disqualify this... the developer has the responsibility to make sure the game looks right on modern displays, and failing to do this is a disservice to gamers.

Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.

So, should you buy this game?

"The Odyssey: Winds of Athena" is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $5 USD, and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again. Even when it was new, this was never a triple-A game. This is the kind of game that went almost directly from the warehouse into the cheap bargain bins at the front of the shop. Now, on Steam, without any modernisation? This is impossible to recommend. For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Don't Starve Together", "Payday 2" or "Mass Effect 3". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

A poorly made browser type game ,that is somehow owned by a lot of people ,surely not because it just 9 cents at one time,there really is nothing redeeming about the game that stands out

God Game: The Odyssey feels as though someone wrote a really cool model for simulating and playing with water currents, and was so proud of it that, in order to show it off, quickly took some Greek-themed art assets and cobbled a game together around it. The current-modelling is cool; the gameplay rather lacklustre.

This game is cool but not so good, i don't like it because the price is not the best one, if you buy this game for 2 euros or more, don't buy it, wait for be 1 euro or cents.

This is my opinion, i don't like to waste money on something that i'll know it will be boring.

I really wanted to enjoy it and give it a positive review, but the weird control, and unstable ship moving made this game not only hard to play, but hard to enjoy. Every level is the same to top of it.

Sometimes, looking deeper into your Steam library can be rewarding. I guess, all of us have a lot of games they don't really care about on their accounts. From all those bundles, giveaways, etc. Many people even buy games just because of trasing cards and then use Idle Master without even trying to check out the game itself. But, like I said, sometimes it can be pretty rewarding. This game... I can't even remember where did I get it. In one of the bundles, I guess. Got the cards ages ago, but never really bothered to play the game. Until not so long ago. And you know... I'm impressed.

It wasn't a love from the first sight, though. Quite the opposite. The game runs in forced 640x480 resolution (which is laughable for 2006 game), it doesn't look that good and comes with hell of a lot of poor humor. Which I pretty much hated. Technically, the game is based on Homer's Odyssey, but there's also a lot of references to the popular culture. There'll be the old Star Wars jokes, a reference to Bill Gates, a Frogger-based level... If you don't mind, that's OK, but I'm a huge fan of the Odyssey since I was a kid and... you know. When you buy the game called The Odyssey, you don't want Star Wars. You want a freakin' Odyssey. And at least jokes should be better than “Use the Force”. I mean, come on! Use the Force”? How old this joke is? In other words, I didn't really like the first few levels. It felt like yet another “meh” games nobody really cares about. But guess what? I did change my mind. Right after the game started to get more complicated.

The thing is, The Odyssey: Winds of Athena is a pretty cool mix of puzzle and... arcade. The idea is pretty simple. There's number of levels you should complete to win the game. Every level is some sort of maze. You start with a small fleet and you should guide it through the series of obstacles to the exit. Sounds simple, huh? The problem is – you can't control the ships directly. Instead, you should control the wind by drawing lines and patterns on screen. The more ships will survive, the better. But there's also a minimum amount of ships you'll need to finish the level, so... the whole thing will be pretty tricky. Actually, some levels in this game can be really, really hard.

But that's what makes this game so cool – the challenge. You'll need to think a lot about many things at the same time (there'll many types of obstacles and enemies on your way), you'll need to act fast, you'll need to be very, very accurate with the controls... And even though this game can make you to rage quit here and there, it feels really great when you actually win the level. The Odyssey: Winds of Athena is one of those puzzle games that can be extremely addictive. And thanks to how all levels are completely different from each other... Well, you've got the idea.

The game doesn't really look that good (it looks like it was made in 90s), sound is pretty poor, it runs in low resolution and it'll take some time to learn about the right way to control things, but in the end, when you get past all this, you may find yourself enjoying it. A lot. I really do recommend this one. Just make sure you get past the early frustration. The Odyssey: Winds of Athena is a very interesting game with a lot of unique challenging levels. There's a lot of puzzle games on market nowadays, but this one is different and very challenging. And that's exactly why you should give it a try. I'm not even a big fan of the genre to be honest. But this game was able to make me sit on my butt for hours and try again and again... and again. Which says something, right?

As other write, it is small logical quickie, but with poor technical quality. The window is really small and on fullscreen it is poor resolution, something like 800*600 or smaller. So it is awfully small on 2K monitor, difficult to play. I did not finish the game, but I tried more than half, I guess. There are some interesting elements like that harpies can take your ships to the other part etc. If you want cards, or if you get it free, or if you have strange obsession by poor indie games, try it, othrewise no.

Tags: Clicker - Fast
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library

TLDR: Improper interactivity. Modify currents in topdown view. Feels like playing with a christmas snowball. Gets old fast. Physics are not great.

You know those snow globes you see around christmas. This game is like like, you gotta click on water in straight lines to create currents, and rotate your mouse in a little corner of the screen to create wind. All in the hope of guiding your sailboats to a designated end goal on the map. The action is very indirect and uses dubious physics to simulate both wind and water currents. The game is audiovisually underpar and seems like a very dated phone game or a flash game. I'll give it some points for originality instead of simply using angle snapping to create a casual object routing game, but the chaotic currents and your ships flailing about everywhere makes it a micromanagement nightmare, everything is so indirect, unpredictable, demands way too many clicks, and just feels tedious.

It's unique. It's like a lemmings game, but with boats and wind. It got boring pretty quick, but the idea is cool. Don't buy it unless it's on sale.

The Odyssey: Winds of Athena is a simple 2D-puzzle game released 10 years ago for the first time. It has fun elements to it, and is overall, a fun little time waster.

Pros:
-Pretty cheap, and it is on sale very often, lowering the price even more
-Has steam trading cards
-Simple mechanics that are easy to grasp, making the game easy to play, yet difficult to master

Cons:
-Resolution compatibility for widescreen is non-existent

This is fun little game for it's price, and worth a look if you just want something to waste time
5/10

Kinda interesting but also kinda boring game. Look, if you like clicker games, this one is for you, most probably. I kind of like clicker games, like 12 labors of hercules, but that one is a lot more fun for me. This is kind of boring, but also kind of different than other clicker games. But I just farmed trading cards and deleted

The concept is brilliant, and it is a great effort at something new, but it sadly falls a little short of being fun to play.

You are given the power of Athena, controlling wind and currents in the ocean, but the captions of the ship all seen to have a death wish and would rather break free of a current to run aground some rocks or a sandbar. It all feels like it could have been so much more than it is.

Once you get a few levels in, and you are nudging ships through narrow spaces, triggering levers to open gates across the sea, while cyclops stand on the shore and throw boulders at your ships for fun, I had to stop playing. I wanted to be the cyclops more than have the buggy powers of a goddess.

I commend the developer for a fresh idea, and I hope he makes a more polished sequel. For now, I cannot recommend this game unless you are curious about the concept, and then only when it's on sale.

The game is nothing special, just a boring mobile port with bad mechanics and controls.

Also, you can guess that something is wrong when you see that the game has two different names on its Steam page:

God Game : The Odyssey vs The Odyssey: Winds of Athena.

2d puzzle short-break game, where you need to help some folks lead their boats through the very troubling seas. You'll be creating small physical phenomena on the way of those boats, to save them from harm. In a Greek god way, indirectly and somehow messy, but with the good intentions at heart.

With the current price and the reality of Steam "greenlight" Augean stables going wild with the really bad things selling great just because they have trading cards on the board... I'd say "The Odyssey: Winds of Athena", or whatever that game calls itself - is a decent project, which is not trying to rip you off, and providing with just enough gaming experience for the small price.

That is correct, of course, only by comparisons with the weakest part of Steam, all those sleaze stuff that have any value only with cards... If we remember, that almost for the same money we can buy high-quality things like WItcher 1 (where even the optional mini-games are more inspiring than that "Odyssey")... That so many good games of the equal cultural value, as "Odyssey", are freeware from the start... Well, I can't say that I Really Recommend the game.

It is working, it has quite rare, almost unique game mechanics, it is fairly provides you with the promised puzzle-like gameplay fitting to fill short pauses in your life, like awaiting in the traffic or in some queue... Yeah, that goes mostly as the thing for mobile platforms, and not full-time PC gaming experience.

So I'll mark the Odyssey as 5.7/10. It is not a bad game, it is fair, costs little, has cards to align the price even more. It provides enough gameplay to fill your hands for some time... yet it is not inspiring enough to really go for it.
So if you get it discounted or bundled - that's not a waste. Just don't expect much.

You play as Odyssey and should help get merchant ships from one point to another . But on the way there is a set
barriers that you will overcome. You can also control the speed of the winds and currents that would direct the merchant ships on the right course.

The lunar sales are up and i get in temptation to buy this game (i love mythology and play as Athena guiding ship sound fun)
So i bought it for 0,21 cents. I instal it right away and as soon as the download finished (less than 10 sec, game is only 51 mb) and i press the start. And maybe the review begun!

i really loved the game espesialy the music and backgrounds :D
so i will write the pros and cons

Pros
-Its an intresting game (as a gaming development option)
-Menu wallpaper and sidebar with Athena are really beautifuly worked
-simply mech's (propobly it worth mentioning in both Pros and Cons)
-enjoyable if you dont get bored easily
-Low price
-Worth for passing some time
-Really nice music
-mythology lesson (well not exactly accurate but its a game not judge xD)

So the cons
- Sadly most missions are kinda boring and easy enough
- In mission music should be selcted through options (default is no music)
- you got really few choises-powers to control


So i would suggest the game and i think its worth a 8/10, it could be better ....but..... you get what you paid for :D

Interesting idea, very unusual concept. You control winds and currents with your mouse. Rather limited gameplay though. Most of the times it's either blind luck or good aim with frantic clicks and drags.

Overall I'd say that it's not worth the pricetag though. I got it on sale so I got my money's worth but I don't recommend it at the original price.

I found the gameplay frustrating and heavily depending on luck.
A touch screen interface would be more appropriate.

A good small game for anyone to get into, simple concept which are alot of fun. A little challenging at times but it's a perfect time waster.

Check out my first gamplay of this game at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3THiKdvGWU

This game is awesome so far, it has a very unique art style to it. The gameplay is interesting cause you gotta figure out how to guide ships using a mix of wind and currents, so it's a unique type of physics puzzle.

Crazy stuff gets added in when you get farther into it, like Sirens and giant eagles and stuff that mess with your ships. So it has some fun elements from the Odyssey that keep it fun.