Steam News · Feb 4
The Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy remaster from 2017 (originally released in 2003) has seen a big upgrade arrive for the classic. Read the full article here:
Steam News · Feb 3
Hi there, everyone!Time for another stable, cumulative update covering the latest fixes and improvements since our last 2024-04-21 change notes. This is what many of you have been already enjoying if opted into the latest beta or sixty-four-bits branches. Via right-click on your Steam Library entry, then Properties > Betas.There is a lot to unpack here, the "short" version is that projected soft s...
Steam News · Apr 21, 2024
This update comes with lots of bugfixes and gameplay tweaks, improved levels (Cursed Palace, Mummy Sewer and Uruk Temple), and a few higher-quality textures. People with NVIDIA laptops should not get black screens anymore. The fiddly part at the end of Uruk Temple with the moving metal platform has been streamlined. See the full changelog below:
Steam News · Nov 10, 2023
7305 days ago a game titled Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy was first released in North America. After around three years of development and more than a few name changes, going from «Shadow of Set» at E3 to «Misfortunate Mummy» around summer, they finally settled on what we all know. The project started as a 1996 CGI movie concept from a small team of artists from Valencia, Spain called Anibyte. The t...
Steam News · Oct 9, 2023
Hi there! Those wanting to test the first version of the much-requested projected shadows on Windows and Linux + SteamOS can do so now by opting into the «sixty-four-bits» Steam beta branch. At the moment, they look more or less like this, but we are aware that they are way too dark in some places, so some tweaks are to be expected. Toggle the following button to preview them, and we always apprec...
Steam News · Aug 27, 2023
2023-08-27 (Sunday) Add even more HD textures for characters, many enemies, pickup-able 3D items, Abydos Museum jewels, special effects and various environments; like the Abydos minigames, Uruk Castle, Uruk Trials, Heliopolis exterior and many others. A grand total of 304 new files. Toggle the following buttons to see a few before/after example screenshots below: Knives Cat:
Steam News · Aug 22, 2023
Hi there, and happy 20th anniversary since the game's release! We were told that we should probably make some kind of announcement whenever we release a patch, instead of just silently dropping it into the blackhole that is our Official updates thread. ːsteammockingː We might as well start now, because we are still working on your favorite missing Sphinx features. See you again until the next patc...
Steam News · Mar 11, 2022
Hi there! Time for a song refresh. Updated all the song files; now the songs are based on the recovered high-quality 1411 kbps / 44100 Hz master files instead of derived lossy versions. Instead of ~500 MiB for the combined FLAC+MP3 package, now it weights around ~300 MiB for the MP3 version and ~930 MiB for the lossless FLAC version. One can freely choose between either version by toggling the «Do...
Steam News · Feb 25, 2021
To celebrate the Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy -75% off sale ending March 1st, the Discord Community Staff (@lordquacksmith and @SphinxLuvDuvWuv) have organized to give away three copies of Sphinx on Steam! Today's winner is @Shrev64#0089. Here's how to enter: Join the official community Discord. React to the latest announcement containing information about the giveaway with an emoji of your country...
Steam News · Nov 6, 2019
A lot of things happened in the Sphinx community since our last announcement; the Sphinx Discord server got verified, meaning that it is now officially the place to hang out to talk about the game, and is now jointly managed by THQ Nordic and the previous community staff. Also, the Sphinx wiki got a big overhaul, jmarti856's huge beta restoration mod is chugging along after we released even more b...
