# Valley of Gods, new adventure from Campo Santo **URL:** \ **Category:** Adventure/Lucasfilm Games\ **Created:** [December 10, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135 "2017-12-10T06:45:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/1 "2017-12-10T06:45:02Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Transcript Podcast #9](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/transcript-podcast-9/2114/17): Talking about pyramids and sphinxes (sphinges?) reminded me of an announcement from just some days ago: [Valley of Gods](https://inthevalleyofgods.com/) is a new adventure game from [Campo Santo](https://www.camposanto.com/), the makers of [Firewatch](http://www.firewatchgame.com/). It’s currently scheduled for 2019 (Win/Mac/Linux) (see [blog post](http://blog.camposanto.com/post/168309698749/our-new-game-is-in-the-valley-of-gods-a)). As a fan of Egyptian mythology (something Zak McKracken taught me) I’m always happy to stumble across something like this in games. Even wacky approaches like in [Sam & Max 302: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak](http://www.mobygames.com/game/sam-max-302-the-tomb-of-sammun-mak) 🙂 > **Screenshot** > > ![448209-sam-max-302-the-tomb-of-sammun-mak-windows-screenshot-the](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/b/b0264fac6319191e4fa001de5f338b08f9bae599.gif) ---
**Author:** ![BigRedButton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/bigredbutton/32/212_2.png) [@BigRedButton](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/BigRedButton)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/2 "2017-12-10T11:19:57Z")
It looks very elaborate. They obviously use a lot of Performance Capturing. If the puzzles and the story are good, I’ll be interested in it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![milanfahrnholz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@milanfahrnholz](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/milanfahrnholz)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/3 "2017-12-10T13:20:12Z")
Remember when ancient egypt was all over pop culture? Whatever happened with that? ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/d/de80b3994b7ed8fc387e602eb95fcd0993e5d4dc.jpg) ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/5/5d90cb6a1fa06f24ce41b3ef4308f91f383c491c.jpg) ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/0/0d20912fad7b2821cce60cefd6564c7b6fbf719e.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kaiman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kaiman](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/kaiman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/4 "2017-12-10T13:22:27Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > Valley of Gods is a new adventure game from Campo Santo, the makers of Firewatch. > > It’s currently scheduled for 2019 (Win/Mac/Linix) (see blog post). Wow, that trailer looks awesome. Loved Firewatch too, so that one goes on my list. Too bad it’s still a long wait (though much shorter than most of the games I backed on Kickstarter 😄). ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/5 "2017-12-10T14:18:34Z")
> [@kaiman](#): > > Too bad it’s still a long wait (though much shorter than most of the games I backed on Kickstarter 😄). 2019 is just an estimate too, so… everything can happen. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/6 "2017-12-10T14:22:40Z")
This: > [@milanfahrnholz](#): > > ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thimbleweedpark/original/2X/5/5d90cb6a1fa06f24ce41b3ef4308f91f383c491c.jpg) looks a little bit like a desert version of the Smurfs village… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LowLevel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/lowlevel/32/48_2.png) [@LowLevel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LowLevel)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/7 "2017-12-10T15:03:35Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > As a fan of Egyptian mythology (something Zak McKracken taught me) I’m always happy to stumble across something like this in games. Did you like the Ankh PnC adventure games? ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/8 "2017-12-10T16:50:54Z")
> [@LowLevel](#): > > Did you like the Ankh PnC adventure games? Yes. I own them on physical media. Just looked up digital versions: They still aren’t available on [GOG](https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=Ankh), what a shame. ☹ You can get all three of them on Steam. The first one (Ankh - Anniversary Edition) is available DRM-free at [FireFlower Games](https://fireflowergames.com/shop/ankh-anniversary-edition/) (wow, another shop redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS, but at least this one is DRM-free only). ---
**Author:** ![BigRedButton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/bigredbutton/32/212_2.png) [@BigRedButton](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/BigRedButton)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/9 "2017-12-10T19:45:12Z")
I played the first Ankh game ten years ago. I remember that I disliked some puzzles and that the game was not really bug-free. Also, I didn’t like the controls, which were obviously inspired by the GrimE games. I never played the sequels for this reason (only the demo for the second Ankh game). Please keep in mind that this was my opinion ten years ago. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more nowadays. Who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/10 "2017-12-10T20:28:09Z")
> [@BigRedButton](#): > > I didn’t like the controls, which were obviously inspired by the GrimE games I never had a problem with such controls (TANK CONTROLS FTW!), but you may be right that it’s not a **very** good game. It was good enough for me to enjoy it though. Also after playing TWP nearly every other adventure game seems like 💩 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/11 "2019-12-04T05:58:12Z")
I was wondering what’s up with that. I liked the setting. Well, let’s play the Valve waiting game… [https://mixnmojo.com/news/In-the-Valley-of-Gods-officially-on-hold](https://mixnmojo.com/news/In-the-Valley-of-Gods-officially-on-hold) ---
**Author:** ![kaiman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kaiman](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/kaiman)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 5:27pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/12 "2019-12-04T17:27:03Z")
A while ago I read some rumors about the devs being pulled into other Valve projects, but that makes it sound as if it’s no longer going to happen at all 🙁. So there goes another one of the games I really wanted to play. Oh well, there’s still **Sable** and **Yes, Your Grace** to look forward to next year. ---
**Author:** ![Nor\_Treblig](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/nor_treblig/32/216_2.png) [@Nor\_Treblig](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/Nor_Treblig)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 4:06am UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/13 "2022-08-23T04:06:30Z")
[Jane Ng](https://twitter.com/thatJaneNg) left Valve last year and is currently working at [Possibility Space](https://possibility.co/). I think she was working as lead artist for this game. So that’s bad news… ---
**Author:** ![LowLevel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.thimbleweedpark.com/lowlevel/32/48_2.png) [@LowLevel](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/u/LowLevel)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/valley-of-gods-new-adventure-from-campo-santo/2135/14 "2022-08-23T13:32:52Z")
> [@Nor\_Treblig](#): > > So that’s bad news… ☹ What a pity, I was looking forward to it…