Epimythos: The Forgotten Legends

Epimythos: The Forgotten Legends is a Greek mythology quiz game with three modes for testing your knowledge and learning the stories and symbolism behind the myths. It includes illustrations, contextual backstories and hundreds of curated questions, as well as a Chronological mode that takes you through the myths across six mythological eras.

Discovery mode

Discovery mode pairs each question with a contextual introduction and a backstory after your answer. As of Version 1.0, it has 390 questions. Occasional annotations, Anachronism Notes and other factoids clarify potentially confusing details; you can dismiss these annotations. You can choose up to 100 questions per round from these categories:

• Heroes and Legends: Heracles, Perseus, Jason, Theseus and other heroes.
• The Trojan War and the Return home of the Greeks: Questions about these narratives.
• Argonauts: Jason, his crew and Medea.
• Olympians and Titans: The Olympians and their predecessors.
• Underworld and Afterlife: Underworld deities and quests.
• Heracles: The life of Zeus and Alcmene’s son, marked by struggle and redemption.
• Mythical Bestiary: Creatures including Pegasus, the Chimera and the Hydra, as well as birds and giants.
• Love, Drama, and Tragedy: Myths involving the divine, viewed from a Dionysian angle.
• History and Geography: Lore rooted more in real history than in myth.
• Notable Mortals: Stories about human beings.

You can play Discovery mode in chronological order, with periods listed as the Primordial Era, the Titanomachy, the Gigantomachy, The Age of Gods, the Early Heroic Age, the Late Heroic Age and the Post-Heroic Age. Anti-repetition filters are available in the larger Discovery categories and in all Chrono-Discovery periods. You can choose a curated selection of questions or tackle every question in the library.

Speed mode

Speed mode is a timed quiz where you earn points and build a multiplier by answering correctly. Questions get harder as you do better. Choose Easy, Medium or Hard; the game adjusts difficulty according to your streak. Correct answers in a chain raise your score, with harder settings offering multipliers up to x10. You can skip a question once or twice without penalty, but skips are unavailable in Hard Mode. The leaderboard lets you challenge friends and compete for a place at the top.

Verbose mode

Verbose mode uses typed answers and a pool of 140 illustrated myth scenes. You can play in chronological order, choose random questions or select a category. Questions ask you to type a name or concept; if your answer is close, an answer button lets you continue to an illustration and an in-depth explanation. You can also proceed to the explanation if you do not know the answer.

The Interpretations category explores symbolic meanings, including what Medusa’s head on Athena’s shield represents and what Oedipus was really about.