Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris (2006) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris

This time he will not fail. This time Osiris will show the world of humans what he's made of. But the ankh alone is not enough - not as long as he hasn't found the most important part of his body: his heart.

70 30 October 2006

What Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris is

Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris is an adventure game developed by Deck13 Interactive and released in 2006. It was published by Strategy First. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on FMOD.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Having rid himself of the death curse and saved the Ankh from the hands of Osiris, the wicked God of the Underworld, Assil has now woken up in the dingy back streets of Cairo with a blinding hangover only to discover the Ankh is missing! With no time to lose, Assil must recover the Ankh and ensure that it doesn't fall into the hands of Osiris; to do so would be a catastrophe enabling him to launch his own fiendish plan.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 8 hrs.

What it launched against

Ankh 2: Heart of Osiris launched on 30 October 2006, within three weeks of Bully, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War and Guitar Hero II. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Bully, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II.

Official trailer