The Odyssey: Won! (with Summary and Rating)

In the end, it wasn't much of an "odyssey." The Odyssey United StatesIndependently developed and published as sharewareReleased 1993 for the MacintoshDate Started: 20 July 2026Date Ended: 3 August 2026Total Hours: 25Difficulty: Hard (4.0/5) Final Rating: (to come later) Ranking at time of posting: (to come later) Summary: The Odyssey looks like an Ultima clone with its iconographic interface and keyword-based NPC dialogue, but it plays like a Dungeon Master clone with its numerous mechanical puzzles and difficult combats. The combination creates a fairly unique shareware game. The game uses ancient Greek themes to tell the story of a lone guard who must defeat the chaos master besieging the city of Athenia. The total physical space through which the player must venture is far smaller than most titles of even the early 1980s, but because every room is a deathtrap that must be approached cautiously and repeatedly, it takes far longer than you would expect. There are few normal RPG…