Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is one of my favorite games and I don’t know why

If I had tested Assassin’s Creed Odyssey when it was released, it probably wouldn’t have been that great. The world is way too big, leveling takes forever (probably not least to push in-game purchases), the variety of missions isn’t really all that great, and the unanimous opinion… modestly good present story is surprisingly important to. Our PC games test for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey said that this thing isn’t necessarily the greatest adventure of all time, and it would have read something like that for me too. I then tested the successor, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, myself and certified it to be the better game due to various significant improvements.

So much for the objective opinion (which is only possible to a certain extent anyway). But then the little subjectivity devil on my shoulder reports and says “you, by the way, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (buy now €91.63 /€53.99 ) is one of your absolute favorite games.” Caution: Small spoilers about the game follow in the course of the text.

My Big Fat Greek Videogame

Well, if the little devil says that, it must be true, the only question is: why is that? All I know is that after nearly 190 hours of gameplay, completing all missions and side missions, completing all DLCs, and collecting all trophies, I put the controller aside not at all happy to finally be done with it.

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is one of my favorite games and I don’t know why (2)

Source: Ubisoft




No, I must have sailed wistfully across the virtual sea for another 30 or 40 minutes, really sad about having to say goodbye to this world.

My home is my Greece

What Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has done better than most games for me is to capture me in its world. Yes, virtual Greece is huge, but I still had the feeling: this is MY world.

This wasn’t a setting I ran around in and didn’t connect with. I knew the different areas of the mainland, I found my way around the islands like Crete and Lesbos, I felt at home there during the game.

A game designer may be better able to explain why this worked so well than I can. In any case, I know that with a world of this size, only Hyrule from Zelda: Breath of the Wild has managed to do that.