Best Mythology Games on Steam
Games drawing on gods, legends, creatures, heroes, and ancient belief systems.
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1Black Myth: Wukong - Black Myth: Wukong is an action RPG rooted in Chinese mythology. You shall set out as the Destined One to venture into the challenges and marvels ahead, to uncover the obscured truth beneath the veil of a glorious legend from the past.
Aug 19, 2024
In this game, you can…
- turn into bosses you've defeated and use their forms in fights.
- play as Sun Wukong in the prologue.
- beat a chapter's main boss, then watch a stylized animated epilogue that turns your actions into a narrated painting.
- build energy by dodging and basic hits, then spend it on heavier attacks instead of blocking.
- chain perfect dodges to power up your next big hit.
- respec for free and switch your whole build at any rest point.
- stumble into secret zones, hidden bosses, and optional questlines by exploring and backtracking.
- fill a journal where every enemy kill can unlock a folklore story entry.
2Valheim - A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Feb 2, 2021
In this game, you can…
- build a house with a fireplace and die if you forget ventilation.
- drag a cart full of ore across the wilderness, then end up building roads and supply routes to get it home.
- ship ore and even livestock across islands by building docks and running maritime trade routes.
- hunt sea serpents on purpose at night for food.
- watch enemies from different regions start fighting each other while you just stand back.
- build with structural support so big halls and towers need real beams, not just stacked walls.
- sail in a night storm, guide a friend's ship to port by torchlight, then sprint to the walls when a raid warning hits.
- tear down a bad build and get all the materials back, so you can rebuild freely.
3Hades - Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Sep 17, 2020
In this game, you can…
- choose a power-up and trigger a new bit of gossip between gods mid-run.
- die, walk out of a blood pool at home, then talk to everyone for new dialogue and upgrades before trying again.
- give gifts to characters and get powerful keepsakes back, so your friendships directly change your combat build.
- swap between six weapons that play wildly differently, including aspects that can completely change how the weapon works.
- stack your own difficulty modifiers for better rewards, choosing exactly which new handicaps you want to deal with.
- finish a room, pick between two next paths, and watch your build evolve choice by choice until it collides with a boss fight.
- have the story react to exactly how your last run ended, with characters teasing or comforting you about specific deaths and wins.
4God of War - His vengeance against the Gods of Olympus years behind him, Kratos now lives as a man in the realm of Norse Gods and monsters. It is in this harsh, unforgiving world that he must fight to survive… and teach his son to do the same.
Jan 14, 2022
In this game, you can…
- throw an axe across a fight, watch it carve through enemies, then recall it to snap back into your hand.
- fight with your kid as a real partner, calling on his arrows to stagger enemies and open them up for your hits.
- fight a full-on dragon as a giant set-piece boss encounter, not just a background monster.
- row a boat across a huge lake and trigger long myth stories and character backstory while you travel.
- go from a quiet hunting trip to carrying your wife's ashes on a journey that keeps expanding into new realms and threats.
- parry a hit with your shield, counterattack, chain into rune attacks, and swap between throws and melee without breaking momentum.
- hunt down optional valkyrie bosses that hit harder than the main story's big fights and demand real mastery.
5Hades II - Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
Sep 25, 2025
In this game, you can…
- mute the music mid-boss and get a unique reaction for doing it.
- fight a boss whose music is so catchy you might stop attacking just to listen.
- run two separate campaigns with different routes, locations, and bosses: one in the Underworld, one on the surface.
- drop a binding circle on the floor and build your whole run around it.
- charge attacks, specials, and your cast into omega moves that spend magick and slow time while you aim.
- craft upgrades between runs with a cauldron, using reagents you gathered during your last escape attempt.
- swap keepsakes between regions mid-run to change what powers you're leaning on for the next stretch.
- get new dialogue and character reactions popping up even after dozens of runs.
6Noita - Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Oct 15, 2020
In this game, you can…
- swap positions with something you launched so far away it clips out of reality, and end up somewhere it shouldn't exist.
- trigger a chain reaction where electricity detonates a hanging bomb, the blast becomes gas, the gas ignites, and the whole oil pool erupts.
- turn an eldritch monster into a sheep, then teleport it into lava — or just dig a tunnel and ignore it.
- turn a harmless-looking spell into a face-level explosion or a portal to a tentacle realm.
- eat weird fungus, vomit, and watch the vomit transform into lava.
- build a wand that spawns a lava star with its own gravity and melts you instantly.
- kick objects like minecarts into enemies and use the physics as your weapon.
- get turned into a sheep by a pink potion even after you can vaporize mountains and turn ground into gold.
7Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - From the makers of Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and DmC: Devil May Cry, comes a warrior’s brutal journey into myth and madness. Set in the Viking age, a broken Celtic warrior embarks on a haunting vision quest into Viking Hell to fight for the soul of her dead lover.
Aug 7, 2017
In this game, you can…
- hear voices that warn you about attacks from behind instead of a HUD.
- look through a circle to make an obstacle disappear and the path become real.
- follow the sound of water and controller rumble to navigate a trial without relying on sight.
- align rune shapes in the world to open sealed doors.
- fight eight enemies at once on a narrow bridge while the voices call out incoming hits.
- use a time-slowing focus mode mid-fight to keep attacking while everything else crawls.
- collect lorestones that unlock narrated Norse myth stories as you travel.
8WorldBox - God Simulator - WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!
Dec 2, 2021
In this game, you can…
- give grasshoppers sapience with monoliths, watch them churn through a hundred kingdoms in a year, then somehow invent agriculture and windmills.
- curse the world so every death leaves a wandering wraith haunting the land for the rest of history.
- drop a landlocked orc tribe into a mountain bowl and watch them still research boats and set up maritime trade routes.
- watch cats become a shoreline empire so influential that other species start naming their children and cities in catlike words.
- build a wall between two civilizations, fast-forward time, then smash it down and trigger instant mass slaughter.
- give a single person immortality and every trait, make them king, and watch them conquer a 78x53 landmass while surviving plagues and gods.
- edit the genes of an entire species at once, then watch them develop their own building style and start conquering other civilizations.
9Nine Sols - Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
May 28, 2024
In this game, you can…
- interrupt a machine ritual that's about to voluntarily sever a kid's head.
- stick a paper seal onto an enemy, then cash in the energy you banked to detonate them.
- think you've beaten a boss, get the win moment, then watch it stand back up for phase 2 or phase 3.
- deflect at the last instant, build energy from it, then turn that defense into a counter chain.
- parry enemy strikes, parry projectiles, and even learn special parries for attacks that look like they shouldn't be stoppable.
- get wrecked by a boss for hours, then come back later and suddenly perfect-parry the same fight like it's scripted.
- slow time mid-fight to line up a bow shot right after a parry exchange, then snap straight back into the rhythm.
- find gifts and little activities for a kid you're protecting, like teaching him to draw or getting him to play the flute.
10暖雪 Warm Snow - 'Warm Snow' is a Rogue-like action game with a background set in a dark fantasy world, where the eerie 'Warm Snow' holds sway. You will play as the Warrior 'Bi-an' on a crusade against the Five Great Clans, in order to save a world teetering on the brink of destruction.
Jan 18, 2022
In this game, you can…
- turn your swords into wine, soak enemies with it, then ignite the alcohol so the blades start doing damage.
- remove your dash for extra stats, then use a gourd to douse enemies in alcohol and keep igniting whole crowds.
- block specific relics and swords in the hub so future drops are more likely to feed the build you want.
- launch flying swords that hunt the nearest enemy, then recall them all at once for an explosive hit.
- put the same relic in different slots and have it become a completely different power each time.
- build around parrying so a perfect parry instantly chains into brutal sword-dash attacks.
- choose how many flying swords to fire to set up a "break," then rush in and recall them for a different effect.
- stack elemental effects so applying one element boosts the others, then turn fire into true damage that also poisons.
