{"id":371344,"date":"2026-07-01T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=371344"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:16:55","slug":"the-odyssey-gets-an-official-roblox-game-today-a-free-18-tie-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-odyssey-gets-an-official-roblox-game-today-a-free-18-tie-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey gets an official Roblox game today: a free, 18+ tie-in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Odyssey: Defy the Gods, a free survival sailing adventure on Roblox<\/a>, went live today as Universal\u2019s official tie-in to Christopher Nolan\u2019s upcoming film The Odyssey.<\/p>\n

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In The Odyssey: Defy the Gods, you sail through rough seas and run into threats pulled from Homer\u2019s epic. It doubles as an early glimpse at the world of The Odyssey, Nolan\u2019s first movie since Oppenheimer. The cast includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, and Zendaya, and the film hits theaters on July 17, 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

What\u2019s getting more attention, though, is the age rating. Roblox has marked The Odyssey: Defy the Gods as 18+<\/strong>, in line with The Odyssey\u2019s R rating, even though the platform is still packed with younger players. Roblox says it has age verification, parental controls, and content labels in place. Critics don\u2019t think those safeguards fully solve the problem, and the response so far has split in two directions: some people find the whole pairing kind of funny, others are uneasy about how moderation will hold up.<\/p>\n\n

For anyone who keeps an eye on movie-game crossovers, this one is probably worth a look. Universal has already used Roblox for How to Train Your Dragon and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and Hollywood keeps coming back to Roblox and Fortnite<\/a> when it wants a promotional push<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

You can play it now on Roblox for free.<\/p>\n

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The Odyssey: Defy the Gods, a free survival sailing adventure on Roblox, went live today as Universal\u2019s official tie-in to Christopher Nolan\u2019s upcoming film The Odyssey. In The Odyssey: Defy the Gods, you sail through rough seas and run into threats pulled from Homer\u2019s epic. It doubles as an early glimpse at the world of … Continue reading “The Odyssey gets an official Roblox game today: a free, 18+ tie-in”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":371343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-371344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371345,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371344\/revisions\/371345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371344"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=371344"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=371344"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=371344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}