# The Nobody: An Odyssey — He texts you. Homer forgot him

> He texts you. Homer forgot him (iPhone/iPad app by Errata LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-nobody-an-odyssey/id6790462410 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Errata LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/6790462412)
- Category: Games, Books, Adventure
- Price: $2.99
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 7 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-21
- Data updated: 2026-08-10
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-nobody-an-odyssey/id6790462410/reviews.md

## What is The Nobody?

Homer names Polites once — "the dearest of my companions" — and then lets him vanish into a crew that never reached home. A rower. A nobody. The sea takes him with all the others, unnamed.

This is his version.

Three thousand years after Troy, Polites's messages reach your phone. He doesn't know what you are. You don't know why you can hear him. But the connection holds — across the islands, the monsters, the dark stretches of open water — and what you say back starts to matter.

Stay with him and he might make it home. Go quiet, and the story ends the way it always has.

THE VOYAGE
• Eight chapters, from the sack of Ismarus to the last island under the sun
• Real-time pacing — Polites writes across hours, and sometimes goes quiet to think, row, or sleep.
• Your choices shape who he becomes, who he saves, and how it ends. There is more than one ending, and survival is not always the likeliest one.
• Ocean ambience, no music — best with headphones, somewhere quiet.

A story told entirely in messages, about the man the poem left out. Free to begin at playthenobody.com.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.8 — 2026-08-05

Fixed notification ask timing.

### 1.0.7 — 2026-07-28

Fixed notification clearing bug.

### 1.0.6 — 2026-07-26

Fixed timing issues related to background texts.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-07-24

Fixed chapter break pause bug.

### 1.0 — 2026-07-21

No release notes.

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