Ankh: Reverse the Curse
Ankh is a point-and-click 3D adventure game by Deck13 Interactive. It features a fully three-dimensional environment with cineastic camera movement. All content is fully spoken and the soundtrack reflects an…
Ankh: Reverse the Curse is an adventure developed by Deck13 Interactive, released 4 November 2005 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Ankh: Reverse the Curse is
Ankh: Reverse the Curse is an adventure game developed by Deck13 Interactive and released in 2005. It was published by BHV Verlags GmbH. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on OGRE.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Players take on the role of fun-loving youngster, Assil, who, after stealing the Great Pyramid key to organise a party for his friends, receives a death curse by accidentally breaking one of the holy urns. This leaves him just a few hours to prevent his very existence being erased. As fate would have it Assil stumbles across a magic Ankh and the girl of his dreams. Using all their cunning they must find a way through Ankh's mysterious and inspiring setting to rid Assil of his curse.
How it plays
Its themes are action, comedy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Ankh: Reverse the Curse holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Ankh: Reverse the Curse launched on 4 November 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization IV. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV.
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