Tap her statue.
A physics puzzle where you play the gods of Greece, Egypt and Rome. Find the weak spot and drop the statue. Just don't flatten your own temple.
Coming soon to Google Play. Free, for ages 13 and up. Ads come off for $1.99.
Gods Get Even is a free physics puzzle game, coming soon to Android. Mortals from the old myths got so proud they built statues of themselves. You play the gods, and you knock the statues down.
Every god does one thing. Zeus's bolt smashes stone. Poseidon shakes one spot. Hermes grabs a block and flies off. Pick the right god, find the weak spot, and the whole building comes down. Your own little temple has to stay standing.
Greece
Egypt
Rome
Every mortal in the game comes from a real myth, and every one of them picked a fight with the gods. It went about how you'd expect.
Greece
Niobe, queen of Thebes
Niobe had seven sons and seven daughters. She bragged about them all the time.
She told everyone to stop praying to the goddess Leto. Leto only had two kids.
Leto's two were Apollo and Artemis. Niobe lost all fourteen. She cried until she turned to stone.
Sources: Ovid, Metamorphoses 6; Homer, Iliad 24
Arachne, a weaver
Arachne was the best weaver around. People came just to watch her.
She said she was better than Athena, the goddess of weaving. Athena told her to take it back. She wouldn't.
They had a contest. Athena got mad and turned Arachne into a spider.
Sources: Ovid, Metamorphoses 6
Minos, king of Crete
Poseidon sent Minos a beautiful white bull from the sea.
Minos promised to give it back to Poseidon. He liked it too much, so he kept it.
Poseidon got even. Crete got the Minotaur, half man and half bull.
Sources: Apollodorus, Library 3.1.3-4
Laomedon, king of Troy
Poseidon and Apollo worked a whole year for King Laomedon. Poseidon built the walls of Troy.
When the year was up, Laomedon wouldn't pay. He threatened them instead.
So Poseidon sent a sea monster after Troy.
Sources: Homer, Iliad 21; Apollodorus, Library 2.5.9
Salmoneus, a king in Greece
Salmoneus was a king. One day he decided he was Zeus.
He drove his chariot over bronze to make fake thunder. He threw torches and called them lightning.
Zeus threw a real one.
Sources: Apollodorus, Library 1.9.7; Virgil, Aeneid 6
Egypt
Sennacherib, king of Assyria
Sennacherib marched a huge army to Egypt's border.
Egypt's king prayed for help.
That night, mice ate all the bowstrings. The army ran home.
Sources: Herodotus, Histories 2.141
Cambyses, king of Persia
Cambyses, king of Persia, took over Egypt.
People were celebrating a sacred bull. Cambyses thought they were laughing at him, so he stabbed it.
Years later, his own sword cut him in the same spot.
Sources: Herodotus, Histories 3.27-29, 3.64
Pheros, king of Egypt
Pheros was king of Egypt. One year the Nile flooded higher than ever.
Pheros threw a spear into the river.
He went blind for ten years.
Sources: Herodotus, Histories 2.111
Setne, prince of Egypt
Setne loved books. He wanted the magic Book of Thoth.
It was in a tomb, with ghosts. They said no. He took it anyway.
Everything went wrong after that. He gave the book back.
Sources: The First Tale of Setne Khamwas
Rome
Tarquin the Proud, king of Rome
Tarquin was Rome's last king. He wanted a giant temple on a hill.
Every old god up there agreed to move. Terminus, the god of boundary stones, said no.
Terminus stayed. Tarquin got kicked out of Rome.
Sources: Livy, History of Rome 1.55
Cacus, the cow thief
Cacus was a fire-breathing giant. He lived in a cave.
He stole Hercules's cows. He pulled them in backward, so the tracks pointed the wrong way.
One cow mooed. Hercules ripped the top off the hill.
Sources: Virgil, Aeneid 8.190-267; Livy, History of Rome 1.7
Flaccus, a Roman official
Flaccus was building a temple in Rome. He wanted the best one.
He pulled marble tiles off Juno's temple and shipped them home.
He had to send them all back. Nobody could put them back on.
Sources: Livy, History of Rome 42.3
Caligula, emperor of Rome
Caligula was emperor of Rome. He told people he was a god.
He took statues of the gods and put his own head on them.
He tried to move the statue of Jupiter. It laughed out loud, and the workers ran.
Sources: Suetonius, Caligula 22, 57
Gods Get Even is a free physics puzzle game, coming soon to Android, where you play the gods of Greece, Egypt and Rome. Mortals from real myths, like Niobe, Arachne and King Minos, built statues of themselves. You knock the statues down with each god's power and try not to flatten your own little temple.
They're real old stories. Every mortal in the game comes from one, and each myth on this page says where it's from: Ovid, Homer, Herodotus, Livy and a few others. Some of them, like Caligula and Sennacherib, were real rulers whose stories grew in the telling.
Hubris is the Greek word for pride so big a person thinks they're as good as a god. In the myths it ends badly every time. That's the whole game.
Zeus, Hermes and Poseidon in Greece. Hapi and Ra in Egypt. In Rome it's Jupiter and Neptune, which are Rome's names for Zeus and Poseidon, plus Vulcan and Terminus. Thor and Loki show up as guests once you've earned enough stars.
Fifteen in each of Greece, Egypt and Rome, and a Wrath level to finish each one. Today's Grudge adds a new level every day, the same one for everybody.
Yes. It shows ads from Google AdMob, rated for teens and never in the middle of a level. One $1.99 purchase turns them off for good.
It's on its way to Google Play now. Tap the button and send the email, and we'll write back once, the day it's out.
13 and up. The myths keep their old endings, so Niobe still turns to stone, but each one is told in a few plain sentences.
Android comes first. iPhone and iPad are next.
Fifteen levels in each of Greece, Egypt and Rome, a Wrath level to finish each one, and a new Today's Grudge every day.
Coming soon to Google Play. Free, for ages 13 and up. Ads come off for $1.99.