God of War is a revenge saga that reinvented itself without losing its core. The early PlayStation games cast Kratos, a Spartan warrior weaponized and then betrayed by the gods, in brutal action set against Greek mythology, told across a deliberately scrambled run of sequels and prequels.
In 2018 the series relocated to Norse mythology and slowed down, trading frantic combo-driven spectacle for a weightier, single-shot camera and a story about fatherhood that earned some of the medium's highest praise. What holds both eras together is Kratos himself: rage as both engine and curse.
This is a game-first franchise, and its swing from mythological bloodsport to restrained character drama is one of the more remarkable mid-life reinventions the form has produced.
The God of War franchise spans 13 games in the CrossBinge catalog.
Games
- God of War (2005)
- God of War II (2007)
- God of War: Chains of Olympus (2008)
- God of War Collection (2009)
- God of War III (2010)
- God of War: Ghost of Sparta (2010)
- God of War: Origins Collection (2011)
- God of War: Ascension (2013)
- God of War III: Remastered (2015)
- God of War (2018)
- God of War Ragnarök (2022)
- God of War Sons of Sparta (2026)
- God of War Laufey (2027)