In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which war provides the game’s historical backdrop?

The Peloponnesian War provides the historical backdrop for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. This conflict between the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, lasted from 431 to 404 BCE.

Odyssey begins in 431 BCE and places its fictional family story across the Greek world. The player chooses either Kassandra or Alexios as the protagonist, while the historical setting includes Athens, Sparta, the Aegean islands, and other regions of ancient Greece.

The game uses real figures such as Pericles, Socrates, and Hippocrates alongside fictional characters and myth-inspired encounters. It is not set during the Persian Wars, which occurred earlier, or the later Roman civil wars. Odyssey was released in 2018 and is set centuries before Assassin’s Creed Origins.