IthacaThe Journey Home

An Odyssey in puzzles · Coming soon

Every sea
leads home.

A little ship. An ancient story.
A passage only you can open.

Help Odysseus find his way back to Ithaca and Penelope. Move the marble stones, clear the sea, and discover the next part of his journey.

Explore the game

For iPhone & iPad.
English & Greek. No ads. Play offline.

Odysseus and his crew sail away from Troy, in a Greek-inspired illustration.
Actual Ithaca gameplay: slide marble blocks to open the ship’s passage to the right.
Open a passage. Bring him home.

15chapters of the Odyssey

750story puzzles, one homecoming

750 morebonus puzzles beyond the story

01 / Find the passage

Small moves.
A long way home.

Each stone moves along its own path. Slide it aside, make room for another, and slowly untangle a route for the ship.

The journey grows from intimate 6 × 6 harbours to larger seas, with square stones and fixed red obstacles in later puzzles. Every puzzle has a verified solution.

01 Undo a move. Try a different path.

02 Up to three animated hints per puzzle.

03 Finish a chapter to open the next.

Actual app screen: a map with fifteen illustrated destinations, chapter progress, and a Continue your journey button.
Fifteen destinations. Your own pace.

02 / The story beyond the stones

A story worth
finding your way through.

Complete fifty puzzles to reveal the next illustrated scene. Meet the Cyclops, hear the Sirens, and travel towards the home Odysseus has never stopped remembering.

Odysseus and his companions escape beneath the rams in the Cyclops’s cave.
03 / The Cyclops A way out, beneath the rams.
Odysseus is bound to the mast while his crew rows past the Sirens.
08 / The Sirens Keep your course.
Odysseus and Penelope embrace beneath an olive tree in Ithaca.
15 / Penelope The reason for the journey.

Illustrated scenes from the game. The story unfolds with gentle motion and text.

03 / The words of Homer

An ancient voice.
A story you can follow.

At the end of each chapter, a passage from Homer’s Odyssey connects the puzzle journey to the original story.

Read the ancient Greek in its polytonic form, with an original modern Greek or English rendering and a short explanation. Revisit the scenes you have unlocked whenever you like.

Ancient Greek · Modern Greek · English

The journey is taking shape

Ithaca is waiting.
Your passage begins soon.

Ithaca: The Journey Home is coming to iPhone and iPad.

Questions? A little help along the way