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Designer(s) Timm Schwank Genre Adventure game | 8/10 Steam Initial release date 4 November 2005 Series Ankh series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date(s) November 4, 2005WindowsGER: November 4, 2005EU: February 3, 2006NA: August 31, 2006LinuxWW: December 17, 2006OS XGER: December 18, 2006EU: May 2007Nintendo DSEU: September 17, 2008 Developers Deck13 Interactive, VIS Entertainment Publishers Microapplication, Daedalic Entertainment, Viva Media Similar Deck13 Interactive games, Adventure games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ankh is a point-and-click 3D adventure game by Deck13 Interactive released in 2005 for the Microsoft Windows. It features a fully three-dimensional environment with cinematic camera movement. All content is fully spoken and the soundtrack reflects an authentic Egyptian atmosphere. Humor is an important aspect of the game, and the influence of classic LucasArts adventure games is noticeable. Ankh is a remake of Ankh: The Tales of Mystery, a 1998 adventure game developed by Artex Software for the Acorn Archimedes. Ankh was ported to Linux and OS X in 2006. A Nintendo DS port was released in 2008 under the title Ankh: Curse of the Scarab King.
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Plot summary
The player takes the role of Assil, the son of a respected architect in Cairo. Assil is a party animal but at some point one of his party-nights turned out sour. When he tries to have some fun in the pyramids with two friends of his, he accidentally breaks some urns and thus disturbs the mummy resting in the pyramid. The mummy punishes Assil by placing a death curse on him, and now he has 24 hours to remove the curse and save himself. Later in the game Assil meets the Arabian ambassador's daughter Thara, who is also a playable character.
Jan Klose, Creative Director at Deck13 Interactive, also cited Monkey Island to be an influence for the Ankh series.
Reception
The PC and DS versions received "mixed or average reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
