Book of the Dead

Life in the Other World was blissful for you, Kteth, a falcon headed Egyptian Godling, and your brothers and other Gods until your Father, Set decided to murder the great God Osiris to take his place. Osiris' son Horus though rose up and defeated your Father and threw him out of the Other World, while his relatives including you are banished to become mortal and live amongst men. As you are innocent in all this some Gods have decided to help you and so tell you about a nearly forgotten manuscript called the Book of the Dead. It describes how a mortal soul can travel after dieing, to the Other World, and is written in tomes, appears on tomb walls and is in the minds of some priests and beings. Horus has heard about the book and so has put a curse on yourself which gives you a crippling disease which will kill you long before you find all the text and undergo the rites of purification to get your soul back to being a Godling. As well as the book you have to find Gods who will help you by giving you a cure.

Book of the Dead is a graphic text adventure where the screen has text describing your location while a picture shows you what you can see. You type in commands with the keyboard to interact with your surroundings and other people or Gods.

Added February 12, 2021
Published By CRL Group PLC
The Essential Myth
Front Cover (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Back Cover (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Spine/Sides (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Inside Cover (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Media (United Kingdom) (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
IGDB Cover from igdb.com
Starting your adventure in an egg (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Broken out of the egg (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Besides a small lake (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
Inside a temple (Commodore 64) from mobygames.com
The title screen (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The first game screen sees the player being born (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The pictures are optional
Note the game's ancient Egyptian method of scoring (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
Is this picture a clue of some sort or did they just run out of artwork? (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com
The use of colour is striking (ZX Spectrum) from mobygames.com

Year of Release:
1987

Genre(s):
Interactive Fiction Traditional

Graphic Style:
2D

Camera View:
First-Person

Control Type:
Text Parser

Setting/Theme:
Fantasy

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