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They are one of the best adventure developers out there. I’ve played Treasure Island, Mysterious Island, Cleopatra and Nostradamus so many times! I wish they would come back to making solid exploration inventory historical adventure games! Please let us know if Kheops is working on something at the moment or send a note of support their way

If you haven’t done so already you absolutely must play Voyage to the Moon and Dracula: Path of the Dragon too; for me, Kheops best two games.

I would also like to know what has happened to this company.

I strongly doubt we will see any more games from them

Yes I wondered too. They made a series of good, high-quality games and then suddenly it stopped. According to the info page about Kheops here on AG they are now making some casual games series but I’d like to see them develop a real game again.

The Secrets of Da Vinci and Safecracker are also great Kheops games. I’d love to see a new historical adventure as well from that studio. Please don’t be done, Kheops.

Ascovel - 20 August 2012 07:38 AM

As long as Kheops are alive there’s a very good chance they’ll make more adventure games again as soon as some funding appears - they’re not a huge studio that needs a lot of money to maintain. To back up that claim a bit… At Gamescom I met Private Moon Studios - who also kept quiet for several years - and they are doing surprisingly well with AGON 5 and other major projects well on their way. Similarly Lexis-Numerique known for experimental titles like In Memoriam and Experience 112 from a good few years ago have found funding for a huge project that will top those two in scale and ambition.

Both pieces of news are great to hear. I’m anxiously awaiting AGON 5 and Experiment 112 was an incredibly promising and ambitious game only let down by its execution.

a guy on FB just told me the company closed down this past January.
Most devastating.

This is sad to hear. They were among the studios who kept the genre alive during the last decade. Now that it’s “back”, at least if current trends are to believed, it must be very devastating for them that they can’t be around to reap the benefits.

My favourite Kheops-games are Return to Mysterious Island and Nostradamus. RtMI was fresh and innovative, and had a great feel. Nostradamus was just rock solid, with great puzzles. There’s also Journey to the Moon, which was insane and lots of fun, and Dracula 3 which was a little too puzzle-heavy and difficult for me, but still a game I liked a lot.

I’ve played all of them, even their casual game. I was very sorry to hear they’d closed. I guess the casual didn’t make them as much money as they’d hoped.