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The Dagger of Amon Ra

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4.4/5

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4.4

33 Reviews

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The Dagger of Amon Ra
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An Ancient Mystery... A Roaring '20s Murder... Laura Bow, intrepid heroine of The Colonel's Bequest, is back! This time she's trapped in a huge, imposing museum in the dead of night, surrounded by socialites, miscreants, thieves...and a cold, relentless murderer. What is the ancient secret of The...
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4.4/5

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Product details
1992, Sierra, ...
System requirements
Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10, 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (co...
Time to beat
4 hMain
7.5 h Main + Sides
10 h Completionist
7 h All Styles
Description

An Ancient Mystery...
A Roaring '20s Murder...

Laura Bow, intrepid heroine of The Colonel's Bequest, is back! This time she's trapped in a huge, imposing museum in the dead of night, surrounded by socialites, miscreants, thieves...and a cold, relentless murderer.

What is the ancient secret of The Dagger of Amon Ra, and who is willing to kill for it? What's the motive for murder? Greed? Religious outrage? Patriotism? Rivalry? Laura Bow, cub reporter for a major New York newspaper, better find out fast!

Are you ready to meet the challenge? Can you discover the truth about the priceless Dagger of Amon Ra before the killer discovers... you?
  • Hand-painted, digitized backgrounds inspired by the art of the era.
  • Realistic video-captured and artistically enhanced animation.
  • Deep puzzles with multiple solutions.
  • An intricate and multi-layered storyline; several different endings possible.
  • An original stereo soundtrack evocative of the 1920s.
  • An intuitive no-typing, point-and-click interface.

© 1992 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision is a registered trademark and The Dagger of Amon Ra is a trademark of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. The ratings icon is a registered trademark of the Entertainment Software Association. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.

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hintbook manual
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DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
4 hMain
7.5 h Main + Sides
10 h Completionist
7 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'1992-01-01T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
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Size:
271 MB

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Posted on: February 25, 2017

puckinator

Verified owner

Games: 54 Reviews: 1

YES

Thankyou! First Freddy Pharkas, now Laura Bow! Im in Sierra heaven. I love this game. Its so beautiful. The amount of gameplay and gorgeous rooms in this game is very underated in the Sierra gaming library. Alot of clicking, alot of reading conversations, alot of repeating questions cause you arent sure if you asked it yet. Yes, very repetetive in that respect, but so worth it.


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Posted on: January 29, 2020

SirTawmis

Verified owner

Games: 271 Reviews: 48

Trapped!

Like the first LAURA BOW game, you're trapped in your surroundings. While the story, I feel had more depth in this game; I didn't feel it was as charming as the first game. It is a little more difficult (I feel) than the first game as well. But nothing that will stop you from ever beating it. But the first game, over all, was pretty easy. If you're in the mood for CLUE but want to play an interactive game - this is the one for you!


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Posted on: August 24, 2024

EEKJeep

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Games: 65 Reviews: 2

Wandering aimlessly

Nearly impossible without using a hintbook. Eventts seem to be timed by a game clock, but there's no way to know what time it is so you can be in the right place at the right time. There's also no going back to check anything once the acts change. Hard to questions all the suspects when they just wander around the museum and randomly disappear. In what must be a bug, one of them even wound up walking on the ceiling.


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Posted on: March 29, 2025

nebirvi

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Games: 32 Reviews: 7

Overall I really enjoyed. A weak 4

Hey! What a nice surprise! Big Kings Quest and Gabriel Knight fan, but never heard of this until this week. WARNING: The first part in this game is sloooooow. It would have worked wonders if you could walk faster. But I'm glad I stuck to it becauce things took of. What lifted this game to a 4: - Beautiful and detailed graphics and enjoyable environments (for the most part) - The humor and details in dialogue and character stories - The amount of characters and detailed relationships - Fun and intersting items and puzzles. - Good murder mistery á la Poirot What makes me give it a (weak) 4 stars: - Some very arbitrary puzzles - A bit buggy - Sloooow walk wich is really annoying since there is a lot of trial and error. - Not as good with placing "the next possible stepps" in the design. I think Kings Quest and Gabriel knight is sharper on that point. Overall happy about it, would reccomend and might even play again at some point even though I know the end. P.S I did have to use a walk through here and there, not everything is logical and many things were very out of focus in more than a nifty/ard way. Simply just bad design. Be prepared to click on everything you don't need and miss some specks of dust hidden in dark corners you should have seen!


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Posted on: February 18, 2017

ninjadodo

Verified owner

Games: 676 Reviews: 3

20s detective

Like most SIERRA adventures there are some gotcha dead ends and tricky puzzles to be aware of so it doesn't hurt to occasionally use a guide or walkthrough, but this is a charming detective adventure, very much worth playing.


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