Areté
Athens, 399 BC. The assembly is about to condemn Socrates for impiety and corrupting the youth. Nyx, a young man who lives in the outskirts with his mom, decides to go to the city to study with the wisest of the Era. He doesn't suspect that this innocent mission will turn him into the philosopher bound to emend the injustice that the Athenian people have commited against his master.
To acomplish this task, he needs to learn philosophy to achieve the Tetraktys virtues, with the help of the greatest philosophers of the Ancient Greece: Plato, Aristotle, The stoics, Epicurus, and the cynics.
-Explore Athens to complete philosopher's quests and uncover the secrets of the city.
-Visualize and interact with the most influential allegories in Classical Philosophy playing mini-games.
-Use the quotes you learn from philosophers to argue against ignorant claims in dialectical turn-based combats.
Controls:
Movement: WASD or arrow keys
Interaction: Shift
Combat: mouse
Contact: diygames.mallorca@gmail.com
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Is Democritus in this game, by any chance?
I'm afraid not. The game starts with Socrates' trial, so all the philosophers in the game are post-socratic. In this demo you'll find Socrates, Perictione, Damon, Anthistenes, Diotima, and Plato. The whole game will include Aristotle, the stoics, the cynics and Epicurus