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(Review after 100%, took me 24 hours in two playthroughs (Warrior and Olympian, each about 12 hours))


The Achilles tendon. On my current machine the game ran well, but crashed to desktop a lot. Easily two dozen times over both playthroughs. Thankfully the game has a reliable auto save, so you usually only lose a couple of minutes of progress, 10 at the most.

I tested all available Windows versions. “lastupdate_fix” crashed the least after the start of the second playthrough, but still around 10 times. Save before each teleport/level change! It happened randomly too, but that’s where 95% of my crashes occurred.

My Windows system is very stable with other games. The only one I can compare this to is Hyperlight Drifter on my Linux NUC.

Outside of the crashes I encountered no major, game breaking bugs.


Intuitive and straight forward. Fists are the quickest but have almost no range, spears are the slowest while having insane range (Sarissa). Every other melee weapon is in between. Arrows can be very effective. Some weapons have unique bonuses. Some enemies are vulnerable to specific weapon types.
Timing is everything. Many weapons can be used to slash or throw. You can either block an enemy or roll away. It doesn’t get too hard, even on Olympian. Tip: Use the Earth-Shaker's Hammer when you get overwhelmed by too many enemies.


You only get injured (Outside of minimal fall damage) once your armor is down to zero. Health and armor can be for a time overcharged. Enemies and object can drop health and armor pickups (Besides money, trinkets and ingredients). With trinkets (Either bought or crafted) you can boost certain stats and keep yourself healthy and your armor up. Money is not scarce, but you can’t buy everything and have to choose. Tip: Buying armor upgrades is wasted money, you’ll find them. Spend the cash on skill upgrades (Which make you hit faster and harder).


Great to look at, bad to use. It integrates itself nicely into the game. But due to the very large amount of weapons, traps, trinkets and bombs (Afaik it can’t be sorted!) in 4 menus (Melee/Ranged/Throwable/Consumable) makes the search for the right weapon unnecessarily complicated. And you’ll search a lot, since weapon durability is really bad (Due to it playing in ancient Greece). Weapons can’t be repaired.


Levels are nicely designed. The settings change with each god you are currently challenging/”visiting”. Some domains are a little underwhelming (Demeter, Aphrodite), some are great (Artemis, Hades). The gorgeous minimalist, understated style (Very evocative of ancient Roman/Greek clay artistry) is kept consistent through the whole game.


Nothing special. Enemies rush you and can block strikes and arrows, but don’t work together. Nothing too complicated or hard. Sometimes their way finding lets them down, which you can exploit (Chimera and Ares especially). The only particularly annoying boss fight was Poseidon.


Great. Very precise and pretty tight. The only bad solution is heal/repair armor. It’s the same button.


No ultrawide resolution support, but that’s not a huge problem IMO.


Most achievements can be done in one run. Only one needs a second playthrough (Olympian). Most popped reliably, one had some issues (Bounty) but worked the second time. “Treasure Hunter” felt contrived.


A cool idea, which sadly was very unstable. I intentionally didn’t write anything about the story. For those who know Greek mythology it’s pretty foreseeable.

For 80% off this was a nice, short adventure into a great art style. Nothing really memorable, but not bad at all. It could be great if it wouldn’t crash so much.

If “meh” were available as a score I’d give it that.

The game crashes far too often for me to give it a recommendation, even if in most other respects the game is actually great. However, once you're about 3/4 of the way through the game, you can expect a 50/50 chance of crashing every single time the game loads a new area.

Apparently, the game has had this crashing problem for the last ten years. It actually personally offends me... do the devs not care about how bad this makes them look? Are they expecting me to overlook it, pretend the problem doesn't exist?

I picked up Apotheon mostly because the art looked cool, but I ended up liking how it actually plays. Combat feels heavy and kind of unforgiving at first. You cannot just swing nonstop. Stamina runs out fast and enemies hit hard, so fights take some patience.

Exploring Olympus is fun, though I definitely got lost more than once since a lot of areas look similar. The boss fights were the best part for me. Each god felt different and beating them felt like I earned it, not like the game handed it to me.

The story is pretty light and stays in the background, which worked for me. Overall it is a tough but satisfying game with a really unique look, especially if you like slower, more thoughtful action games.