
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
Map: M
Contact: diygames.mallorca@gmail.com
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | HTML5, Windows, Linux |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
| Author | diygames |
| Genre | Adventure, Educational, Puzzle, Role Playing |
| Made with | GDevelop |
| Tags | 2D, greece, philosophy, Pixel Art, serious-games, Top-Down |
| Average session | About a half-hour |
| Languages | Catalan; Valencian, English, Spanish; Castilian |
| Content | No generative AI was used |
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Development log
- New demo available (download)Jan 05, 2026






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Bon dia, @diygames,
He provat la demo i m'ha agradat la idea de barrejar Monkey Island i lluites dialèctiques. A banda, et comento un parell de coses que penso que hauries de modificar:
1- La tecla Shift a Windows és molt mala idea. Quan prems 5 cops la tecla de Shift Windows et fa un molest soroll i et surt el típic missatge. Jo posaria una altre tecla.
2- El primer combat dialectal (la gallina) has d'estar en un lloc concret per que salti el combat. Si no el Shift no el detecta. No sé si això et passa amb més personatges
Salut i ànims ^^
Emilio
Gràcies per jugar al joc i pels suggeriments. Els implementaré quan pugui. El que comentes del primer combat és tan sols al tutorial del joc, després no passa (crec). No sé si has descarregat la demo o l'has jugat a la web. La versió web és més antiga i té més errors. La demo descarregable està corregida i millorada, però no prou testejada. La llàstima és que és massa gran per jugar-hi amb el navegador.
Moltes gràcies!
Bon dia, @diygames,
Lo del Shift passa en la versió de windows i la del navegador. Lo del primer combat només succeeix en el navegador.
Hi ha algun botó per baixar el volum?
Salut,
Emilio
No, no hi ha cap control de volum
Entesos.
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