You pick one of seven Greek gods, build that god a sanctuary, and then spend the rest of the game keeping both the god and the people around it fed. That is Theos: Cities of Myth, and it now has a release date. Developer Triskell Interactive and publisher Dotemu announced on September 23 that the game launches November 4, 2026, on PC through Steam. There is no price yet.
The day to day is the Caesar and Pharaoh loop. Roads carry walkers, the little citizens who deliver goods and services on foot, between houses, markets, storehouses and workshops. A house only grows if the right walkers pass its door. Schools of philosophy, theaters and temples raise the city’s standing, and a city with enough standing draws named residents such as Aristotle, who bring bonuses of their own. The patron god adds a second ledger. Build what the god wants and you get blessings; ignore the god and you get wrath. Beyond the walls there are colonies to found and trade to run with other city-states. Rival cities grow on their own, and each one can be courted as an ally, traded with, or fought in real-time battles. There is a campaign of adventures and a sandbox mode.
The obvious ancestor is Zeus: Master of Olympus, the Greek entry in Impressions Games’ city-building line, published by Sierra in 2000. The Poseidon: Master of Atlantis expansion followed a year later. Zeus was Caesar III with gods, heroes and monsters layered on top. It is still the game people mean when they say the old city builders were good, and it is still on GOG for under ten dollars. Triskell knows that line better than most. The French studio, founded in 2014, made Pharaoh: A New Era for Dotemu in 2023, a full remake of the 1999 Pharaoh. The remake kept the original design close and added an option to skip the door-to-door recruiter walkers and hire from a citywide pool. Before that, Triskell published its own steampunk city builders under the Lethis name.
What “modernized homage” has to mean
Dotemu’s announcement calls Theos a “modernized homage to the greatest city builders of the aughts,” which is a careful phrase. The charm of the old games and their frustration were the same system. Walkers wander at random, so a house two tiles from a market could still go without food. Pharaoh: A New Era touched that system only where a remake could. Theos is a new game with no license to honor, so it can fix the walker problem outright or keep it on purpose. The store page does not say which. The system requirements say something, though. Steam lists a GeForce GTX 1070 as the minimum for 1080p on low settings at 30 frames per second, with upscaling on. For a top-down city builder, that counts as demanding.
Theos: Cities of Myth can be wishlisted on Steam now, and the price is the one number Dotemu has not given yet.
