Muslims take on playing ancient mythology games?

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This greatly depends on your bias about generalizing Muslims and the reality of a great variance in beliefs and practices similar to any other of the major world religions.

In many cases, the answer has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with local custom and prosperity. For instance many Middle Eastern nations have prohibitions on any entertainment that has sexuality, alcohol, anti-Middle Eastern suggestions or religions connotations of any kind. That doesn't mean the average Joe doesn't use software to get around the blocks and enjoy that entertainment, additionally some games/movies are edited to conform with these prohibitions.

To be clear NOTHING in the Qur'an is against this type of entertainment. The only things that legitimately could be extrapolated to prohibit some forms of entertainment would be things even a devout Christian/Jew/etc would decide to do without with exception that the Qur'an does tell believers to not create imagery of religions figures. The intended purpose is to prevent worship (accidental of otherwise) of anything alongside of God. Some take this strictly which is why Muslim art has always been more abstract and geometric than the rest of the world. Though many take this to be a guideline focused on the intent of not worshiping others.

As someone who has studied world religions at a university level intently, has people of no faith, Christian and Muslim in his family circle (and friends of course), has actually labelled himself Muslim for over a decade at one point before focusing on the UU view of the world... I see your question as very limited and bias.

The real question is how to the devoutly religious people of the world take on playing games based on mythology or modern religious ideas. I would say that would depend on 1) the religion portrayed 2) how it is portrayed. A game like Civilization is likely a non-issue for anyone. A game about war that shows holy sites and people of their personal religious identity being trounced on or ridiculed is likely to be avoided and upsetting.