Polygon reported that The Mummy has quietly become one of the most-watched films on Netflix as Brendan Fraser gears up to reprise Rick O’Connell in The Mummy 4. The 1999 original is back in the cultural conversation, and a whole generation is rediscovering why torchlit tombs, scarab beetles, and rifle-toting archaeologists made such a compelling matinee. There has never been a proper Mummy video game, though, so anyone chasing that specific itch on PC has to piece it together from adjacent titles.
We rounded up eight of the best Egyptian adventure games for Mummy fans on desktop that actually deliver the Rick O’Connell fantasy in some form. The picks lean toward Steam because that is where the catalogue lives, and they cover the full spectrum: pyramid-crawling stealth-RPGs, arcade shooters set in the dunes, third-person tomb platformers, and a couple of clean tributes to the Indiana Jones and Lara Croft strain that inspired Sommers’s films in the first place.
What to look for in an Egyptian adventure game
Not every game set in Egypt scratches the Mummy itch, and not every Mummy-flavoured game is set in Egypt. The picks below were weighed against a few practical criteria:
- Setting authenticity. Real geography, real monuments, and a serious attempt at Egyptian architecture matter more than a “desert level”
- Action-adventure pacing. Puzzle-only walking sims and pure survival horror are out; the movies were pulp, and the games should feel like it
- Tomb exploration. Underground temples, torch-lit puzzles, and hidden chambers do the heavy lifting on atmosphere
- Controller support. Desktop players increasingly use Steam Deck and gamepad on TV, and full controller support is a baseline
- Story versus sandbox. Some players want a scripted 12-hour arc, others want a 60-hour open world; the list covers both
- Replay value. New Game Plus modes, difficulty tiers, or robust modding scenes turn a one-and-done into a return visit
Quick comparison
| App | Best for | Platforms | Free plan | Starting price | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assassin’s Creed Origins | Full open-world Egypt | Windows | No | Around $40 | Very Positive |
| Tomb Raider | Reboot origin story | Windows, macOS, Linux | No | Around $20 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Indiana Jones and the Great Circle | Whip-cracking pulp adventure | Windows | No | Around $70 | Very Positive |
| Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection | Cinematic treasure hunt | Windows | No | Around $50 | Very Positive |
| Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy | Mythic third-person adventure | Windows | No | Around $15 | Very Positive |
| Powerslave Exhumed | Retro tomb shooter | Windows | No | Around $20 | Very Positive |
| Serious Sam 3: BFE | Arcade horde combat in Cairo | Windows, macOS, Linux | No | Around $40 | Very Positive |
| Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris | Isometric co-op tomb runs | Windows | No | Around $20 | Very Positive |
The 8 best Egyptian adventure apps for Mummy fans on desktop
1. Assassin's Creed Origins - best full open-world Egypt
Assassin’s Creed Origins by Ubisoft is the closest thing to a fully explorable ancient Egypt on PC. Ubisoft reconstructed the Nile Delta, Memphis, Alexandria, Giza, Thebes, and the Faiyum Oasis at a scale nothing else on this list touches, and the Discovery Tour mode strips out combat entirely so you can wander the pyramids as a museum guest. The main campaign follows Bayek, the last Medjay, through a revenge story that turns into the origin of the Assassin Brotherhood, and the tomb sequences (real ones, mapped from archaeology) put you inside sarcophagus chambers with torches and traps that feel Sommers-adjacent.
For Mummy fans who want the sense of scale the films aimed for and a proper RPG hook, Origins is the unambiguous starting point.
Where it falls short: Combat leans slightly grindy in the mid-game. The Uplay/Connect launcher on top of Steam annoys some players. Requires a decent GPU for the crowd-heavy cities.
Pricing:
- Free: No
- Base: Around $40 (regular sales below $10 for the Gold Edition)
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation, Xbox.
Download: Steam
Bottom line: Install this first. It is the Egyptian sandbox that every other pick on this list is trying to approximate in a smaller frame.
2. Tomb Raider - best reboot origin story
Tomb Raider by Crystal Dynamics is the 2013 reboot that pulled Lara Croft back into the Rick O’Connell family of pulp heroes: bloody, breathless, and willing to shoot her way out of a burial chamber. The island setting is technically Yamatai, not Egypt, but the raiding-optional-tombs loop, the torch-and-rope puzzle language, and the crashed-plane opening scene are exactly the tonal ingredients Mummy fans respond to. The Definitive Edition on Steam bundles all the DLC and runs cleanly on modest hardware.
For Mummy fans who want the tomb-raiding fantasy without the open-world scaffolding, this is the cleanest entry.
Where it falls short: Not literally set in Egypt. The QTE-heavy opening dates the pacing. Some crafting systems feel bolted on.
Pricing:
- Free: No
- Base: Around $20 (regular sales to around $5)
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox.
Download: Steam
Bottom line: Pick Tomb Raider when you want a tight 12-hour raid arc with real tension. The Egypt connection is spiritual, but the fit is right.
3. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - best whip-cracking pulp adventure
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle by MachineGames is the 2024 first-person Indy adventure with a globe-trotting campaign that swings through the Giza pyramids in one of its longer chapters. The Cairo and Sukhothai sections are the closest a modern game has come to the tone of the original Mummy films: torchlit crypts, Nazi antagonists, whip traversal, and archaeological puzzle-solving with real hieroglyph clues. Troy Baker’s Indy performance carries the cinematic through-line, and the stealth-first combat design plays well on Steam Deck.
For Mummy fans who want the exact pulp-adventure template Sommers borrowed from Raiders, Great Circle is the most direct spiritual match on this list.
Where it falls short: The Egypt chapter is a slice, not the whole game. The first-person camera divides fans of classic Indy. Newer release means fewer deep discounts.
Pricing:
- Free: No
- Base: Around $70 (Premium Edition higher, occasional sales to around $50)
Platforms: Windows, Xbox, PlayStation.
Download: Steam
Bottom line: Pick Great Circle when the whip-cracking Indy tone is what you actually want. The Egypt chapter alone justifies the entry.
4. Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection - best cinematic treasure hunt
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection by Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy is the PC port of Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy bundled together. The Lost Legacy in particular is a compact 8-hour tomb-raid through India’s Western Ghats that leans heavily on the same “ancient civilisation, deadly traps, ruthless rivals” template that carried the Mummy films. Nate’s climbing-and-shooting rhythm is the closest a game gets to Fraser’s Rick O’Connell energy, and Chloe Frazer is the wisecracking Egyptian-adjacent lead the franchise built its later half around.
For Mummy fans who want cinematic pacing and set-pieces engineered like film sequences, Uncharted is the natural fit.
Where it falls short: No proper Egypt map. The Windows port needed early patches for shader stutter. Requires a Naughty Dog account overlay on top of Steam.
Pricing:
- Free: No
- Base: Around $50 (regular sales to around $20)
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation.
Download: Steam
Bottom line: Pick Uncharted when film-grade set-pieces and character banter matter more than literal setting. The Lost Legacy carries the collection.
5. Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy - best mythic third-person adventure
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy by Eurocom is the cult 2003 third-person adventure ported cleanly to Steam by THQ Nordic. You alternate between Sphinx, a young hero from the Egyptian afterlife who fights through pharaoh-cursed dungeons, and the Mummy of Prince Tutankhamen, who solves puzzles by dying repeatedly (with humour and no gore). The art direction reads like a lost Zelda entry set in Karnak, and the difficulty is exactly the Saturday-morning register Mummy fans grew up on.
For Mummy fans who want the myth-and-magic side of ancient Egypt with a family-friendly lean, Sphinx is the underrated pick.
Where it falls short: The camera shows its age. Some puzzle logic is dated. The Steam version has occasional widescreen scaling quirks (community patches available).
Pricing:
- Free: No
- Base: Around $15 (regular sales to around $4)
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox.
Download: Steam
Bottom line: Pick Sphinx when the mythic, cartoon-adventure register is the mood. It is the friendliest entry on the list and the cheapest.
6. Powerslave Exhumed - best retro tomb shooter
Powerslave Exhumed by Nightdive Studios is the 2022 remaster of the 1996 Lobotomy Software cult FPS set entirely in a Kilmaat-invaded Egypt. You are a nameless commando dropped into Karnak to fight mummies, sand worms, insect swarms, and hovering anubis warriors across 22 non-linear levels with power-up gating (a genre later branded “Metroidvania”). Nightdive rebuilt the game on their KEX engine with pixel-perfect original visuals, sharpened controls, and full mouse-look.
For Mummy fans who want the arcade-shooter version of the fantasy - firefight after firefight through tombs with a shotgun - Powerslave is the standout.
Where it falls short: Old-school non-linear map can disorient newer players. The soundtrack is minimal by modern standards. Level-gating puzzles need patience.
Pricing:
- Free: No
- Base: Around $20 (regular sales to around $8)
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch.
Download: Steam
Bottom line: Pick Powerslave Exhumed when you want the retro FPS energy of shooting mummies with an M60 in Karnak. Nightdive nailed the remaster.
7. Serious Sam 3: BFE - best arcade horde combat in Cairo
Serious Sam 3: BFE by Croteam is the prequel that drops Sam “Serious” Stone into a crumbling 22nd-century Cairo to fight Mental’s horde through Egyptian temples, museums, and desert ruins. The whole campaign is set in Egypt, which no other big-budget shooter on Steam can claim, and the wave-based arena combat is the natural inheritor of Powerslave’s tomb-firefight lineage cranked to modern excess. Full coop for up to 16 players is where the game really opens up.
For Mummy fans who want maximal desert firefights with friends, Serious Sam 3 is the party pick.
Where it falls short: The story is thin (which is the point). Some enemy sound design gets repetitive. The base game is old enough that mod support has drifted.
Pricing:
- Free: No
- Base: Around $40 (regular sales to around $8)
Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation, Xbox.
Download: Steam
Bottom line: Pick Serious Sam 3 when the game night calls for 16-player desert carnage. Nothing else on the list scales like this.
8. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris - best isometric co-op tomb runs
Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris by Crystal Dynamics is the 2014 top-down isometric spin-off set in Egypt, where Lara, Carter Bell, Horus, and Isis race to reassemble the pieces of the god Osiris before Set overruns the land. The four-player couch and online coop, the puzzle-heavy tomb rooms, and the twin-stick shooting all sit in a much lighter register than the mainline reboot, and the whole thing is designed to be finished in an evening with friends.
For Mummy fans who want a shorter, breezier coop take on the tomb-raiding fantasy, this is the surprising pick.
Where it falls short: Not a mainline Tomb Raider entry - the third-person exploration is gone. Solo play works but loses most of the point. Some puzzles need coordination.
Pricing:
- Free: No
- Base: Around $20 (regular sales to around $4)
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation, Xbox.
Download: Steam
Bottom line: Pick Temple of Osiris when the plan is a couch coop night with three friends. It is the most communal entry on the list.
How to pick the right one
If you want the fullest ancient Egypt on PC and a real RPG to sink into, install Assassin’s Creed Origins first. Nothing else offers Alexandria, Giza, and the Faiyum on the same map with a proper campaign.
If the whip-cracking Indy tone is what you actually miss from the Mummy films, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the closest spiritual match released in years. The Giza chapter alone earns the sticker price.
If cinematic pacing is the draw, Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection is the film-grade choice. If a tight 12-hour tomb-raid arc without the open-world scaffolding is enough, Tomb Raider (2013) is the leanest fit.
If you want the myth-and-magic side of Egypt in a family-friendly package, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is the underrated bargain. If retro FPS energy is your itch, Powerslave Exhumed is a note-perfect remaster of a lost classic.
If the plan is a friends-over game night, Serious Sam 3: BFE scales to 16-player desert carnage in Egyptian temples, and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris carries a four-player couch coop tomb run for the quieter crowd.
FAQ
Is there an actual Mummy video game on Steam?
No modern licensed adaptation of the Fraser-era Mummy franchise exists on Steam in 2026. The 2000s console tie-ins to The Mummy Returns and Tomb of the Dragon Emperor never made the transition to modern PC, and no publisher has picked up the license since. Games like Assassin’s Creed Origins, Powerslave Exhumed, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are the closest you get to the tone and setting.
Which of these runs on Steam Deck?
Assassin’s Creed Origins, Tomb Raider (2013), Powerslave Exhumed, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, and Serious Sam 3: BFE are all Steam Deck Verified or Playable with solid frame-rates. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Uncharted are Playable with some setting tweaks. Temple of Osiris runs well but coop is easier docked to a TV.
Which game has the most historically authentic Egypt?
Assassin’s Creed Origins is the standard by a wide margin. Ubisoft consulted Egyptologists and reconstructed real temples, cities, and rituals across the map, and the Discovery Tour mode is used in some university courses as a virtual field trip. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a distant second for architectural detail in its Cairo chapter.
Are any of these free to play?
None of the eight are free. All are premium single-purchase titles, and every one goes on deep discount at least twice a year on Steam. Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris routinely drop to around $4, which is the cheapest entry point on the list.
Which is the best pick for solo players who hate multiplayer?
Assassin’s Creed Origins, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Tomb Raider (2013), Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, and Powerslave Exhumed are entirely single-player. Only Serious Sam 3 and Temple of Osiris lean on coop as the core draw.
When does The Mummy 4 come out?
Universal has confirmed Brendan Fraser is returning as Rick O’Connell for The Mummy 4, but the studio has not committed to a firm theatrical date at time of writing. The renewed streaming interest around the original trilogy on Netflix has accelerated marketing activity, and industry coverage points to a release inside the next two years.
