Hayden's Odyssey

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey movie adapts Homer through a new eye that brings a sense of horror and existential angst to the story – and some humor too. It may not be a perfect movie, but it’s a pretty great moviegoing experience all the same.

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan's newest movie, The Odyssey, releases on July 17, and ahead of that, an official companion game is now available on Roblox. A survival sailing adventure game, The Odyssey: Defy the Gods, is out now on Roblox, and it's free. Players will assemble a crew, ration supplies, and "appease the gods for the right of safe passage" across the ocean. In the game, players will scavenge mysterious worlds to find food and crew that have gone missing. Out on the ocean, players have to survive in the elements like Odysseus did during his perilous journey. Defy the Gods is out now o

The director previously premiered the trailer for time-bending action movie Tenet in Fortnite, now Nolan's taking The Odyssey to Roblox.

While there's no canon for the mythological hero, several authors and poets in the centuries since offer differing stories of what happened.

The Oppenheimer director's epic film gets a second video game tie-in, after appearing in Roblox earlier this month