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Death is not the end. You’ve been chosen as the Ankou, a servant of Death who aids lost souls using the tools of your old trade. Roam haunted lands to find resources, craft weapons, and slay hordes of demons in this action-exploration roguelike.

An Ankou is a exploration, rogue-like and action roguelike game developed by Alkemi and published by PID Games.
Released on August 17th 2023 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 569 reviews of which 399 were positive and 170 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 3.49€ on Steam with a 30% discount.

The Steam community has classified An Ankou into these genres:

Exploration Rogue-like Action Roguelike Arcade Hack and Slash Dark Fantasy Top-Down Action Crafting Survival Singleplayer Bullet Hell Indie Procedural Generation Supernatural Gore Violent Early Access Isometric Grand Strategy

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10+
  • Processor: Intel I3 or equivalent and above
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Geforce 10 series equivalent or above
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Anything that goes beyond bleep

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Jan. 2026
Great mechanics, visuals and controls. Overall it feels a bit repetitive because every character will mostly play in the same way every time but its challenging and the crafting system is cool. It seems that it is early access and abandoned but its cheap and often goes on sale but even at this stage, its possibly even worth full price. Its not fully finished yet and it possibly never will be but its a game made with love and care and i enjoy it.
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July 2025
I will copy paste an article about the Developer and the studio. The game is very good but unfortune! Stop being complain brats and do some research.Because you have sad life ,you trying to hate everything !! A new day, and another painful loss for the video game industry. French developer Alkemi Games, creators of An Ankou, announces the closure of the studio, following the end of its development contract in December. Alkemi Games never managed to find financial stability or much impact with its title An Ankou, despite quite positive reviews for this isometric view roguelite that is very reminiscent of the Survivor and Hades type games. The studio's founder and director, Alain Puget, says in a statement on social media that after the end of the contract he will hold out for a few more months, teaching his intern as much as he can, before throwing her into this "hostile world". He also throws a curveball at Ankou's publisher, PID Games, which will keep the rights to the game after an agreement between the two parties fell through, and Alain says he no longer has the strength or motivation to stay awake at night to finish the game. A transcript of the original French text translated below: "December will see the departure of Alkemi's last permanent contract and the beginning of the end for the studio. Alkemi won't be closing just yet (that is, if everything holds together for a few months), because I've got a great intern, and closing the company would mean sending her back to the trenches at the worst possible time and I have still a couple things to teach her, I think. After this period, Alkemi will probably close. I'll lose the games, the rights, the (very meager) income... 15 years of work. I made my peace with it a long time ago, and it wasn't just "my" games anyway. Besides, it didn't make any money and I'm not the type of person to make sequels either. I think my biggest regret will be An Ankou: a fantastic playground on which we had a blast for 11 months in 2023 before the party came to an end. Since then, we've been rowing non-stop to avoid sinking. I'd always hoped to get back into it even in my spare time. But now, with the almost certain prospect of losing the company and all rights, the motivation to invest my nights and weekends in An Ankou has obviously disappeared. I'm very sorry about that, believe me. I have I tried every negotiation I could in order to find a plan to finish it. Thanks to Mickael, Christophe, Guillaume, Kévin, Dimitri, Louis, Pilou, Anaïs, GC, Morgan and Viviane. The best team. Thanks to our regular and one-off partners. Thanks to Biborg and Bruno, without whom we wouldn't have lasted 15 years. Thanks to our friends Fabien, Olivier, Thomas, Laura, Audrey, Matthieu, Rémi and so many others... Thanks to the players who have played our games. Our weird games, sometimes a little broken, but always made with the desire to do something new that we would have liked to play. Love, Alain." Source from GAMEREACTOR
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June 2025
Fun little game, and I hope the devs get the chance to finish it.
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May 2025
The reviews on this game are being pulled down because it's "abandoned," but honestly to me the game felt complete in the sense that I'm GLAD they are not updating this anymore. This game presents a twist on some of the survivors games like vampire survivors, brotato, etc. It's a little slow at first and has a bit of a learning curve, but it's quite fun once you get in the groove. The key point, however, is that there isn't much left to add. If they added more content, the game's twist would have overstayed its welcome and it would have become boring. The game is just long enough to enjoy the concept and move on. Nice environment, tense music, a few fun enemies, and a good concept. If you're going through survivors games because you can't get enough of them, this one is still worth it to pick up and 100% in 15~20 hours.
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March 2025
I am 12 hours in and close to 100% this game. I bought this game despite knowing it is abandoned. In its current state it is enjoyable to play, has no noticable bugs, offers a good challenge with a various selection of weapons and the darkness system, and for 4€ on discount you will get your money's worth. I hope, someday, this game will be picked up by the dev again because it already shows a lot of potential to be a great roguelite
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Frequently Asked Questions

An Ankou is currently priced at 3.49€ on Steam.

An Ankou is currently available at a 30% discount. You can purchase it for 3.49€ on Steam.

An Ankou received 399 positive votes out of a total of 569 achieving a rating of 6.71.
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An Ankou was developed by Alkemi and published by PID Games.

An Ankou is playable and fully supported on Windows.

An Ankou is not playable on MacOS.

An Ankou is not playable on Linux.

An Ankou is a single-player game.

An Ankou does not currently offer any DLC.

An Ankou does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

An Ankou does not support Steam Remote Play.

An Ankou is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Alkemi
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PID Games
Release 17 Aug 2023
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