Mythology Bucket List

Journey with Kratos and Atreus

Watch Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic, The Odyssey. Known for his ambitious filmmaking with practical effects and IMAX cameras, Nolan promises a grand retelling of Odysseus's ten-year journey home after the Trojan War. The film features a star-studded cast and is expected to be a cinematic spectacle.

Read J.R.R. Tolkien's Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, a collection of stories and essays expanding on the history and lore of Middle-earth.

Read The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth, the foundational works of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium

Complete the action RPG game Black Myth: Wukong, inspired by the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.

Ten years of Odysseus getting home: the Cyclops, the Sirens, and the bow only he can string.

Slick roguelike escape from the Greek underworld (2020).

Ensemble swap history for Greek, Egyptian and Norse myth: favour, god powers and a hydra that grows heads.

The expansion adds the Atlanteans and the titan you spend the whole game trying to release.

Thor’s hammer, Helheim and Avalon, closing the story Legend started.

The Iliad as a summer blockbuster, with Pitt as an Achilles who fights like a dancer.

Morpheus, lord of dreams, escapes seventy years of captivity; Gaiman's ten volumes of myth.

The Monkey King escorts a monk to India in a hundred chapters; the Chinese classic behind every Goku.

The witch of the Odyssey tells her own story; Madeline Miller.

Patroclus and Achilles from boyhood to Troy; Miller's Orange Prize.

Old gods versus new in a road trip across America; Gaiman's big one.

Aeneas from burning Troy to the founding of Rome; Virgil's answer to Homer.

Fifty days of the Trojan War, the rage of Achilles and the death of Hector; the first book of the West.

Two hundred and fifty myths of transformation in one poem; where the Renaissance got its gods.

Scheherazade keeps herself alive with Sinbad, Aladdin and Ali Baba, a story a night.

Vikings fight for glory in a doomed world, with drafted powers each age.

Melinoe against Chronos; the sequel out of early access in 2025.

Fimbulwinter, Thor and Odin; the Norse saga ends.

Every god on Olympus dies; the trilogy ends in blood.

Kratos falls from Olympus and rides the Steeds of Time; the PS2 swansong.

Kratos and the Blades of Chaos against Ares; the Greek trilogy begins.

The sun goddess as a white wolf paints Japan back to life with a brush; Clover's art game.

Lead Viking clans in the final battle of Ragnarök