Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs

The Curse of the Pharaohs is a downloadable content expansion package for Assassin's Creed: Origins, set to be released in March 2018. It is the second out of two expansion packs for the game, alongside The…

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Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Action Historical Open world

Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs is an adventure developed by Ubisoft Montreal, released 13 March 2018 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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What Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs is

Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs is an adventure game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and released in 2018. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Assassin's Creed Origins is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the tenth major installment in the Assassin's Creed series and the successor to Assassin's Creed Syndicate (2015). Set in Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra, the story follows a Medjay named Bayek of Siwa and his wife Aya as they seek revenge for the murder of their son, which leads to the founding of the Assassin Brotherhood and their long-running conflict with the Templar Order. The story is followed in the modern day by Layla Hassan, an Abstergo researcher who is inducted into the Assassins.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Assassin's Creed series

Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs is the 125th of 205 entries we hold in the Assassin's Creed series. The next entry was Assassin's Creed: Rogue Remastered in 2018. Its critic score of 87 is 12 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Assassin's Creed III: Deluxe Edition at 96.

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How it was received

Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 12 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2400s @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX-6350 @ 3.9 GHz or equivalent, 6 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD R9 270 (2048 MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better). An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 42GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs launched on 13 March 2018, within three weeks of Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out and Into the Breach. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Far Cry 5, Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, Into the Breach.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

All media

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Parents

Assassin's Creed Origins

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Quick answers

Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs — frequently asked questions

When did Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs come out?

Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs was released on 13 March 2018 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs?

At minimum, Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs needs Intel Core i5-2400s @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX-6350 @ 3.9 GHz or equivalent, 6 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD R9 270 (2048 MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better) graphics, 42 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse of the Pharaohs?

The PC version needs about 42 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("42 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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