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The Mummy Demastered
Developer WayForward
The Mummy Demastered is a 2017 Metroidvania video game developed by WayForward Technologies and based on the 2017 film The Mummy. It takes place concurrently with the events of the film, with players playing as an unnamed Prodigium soldier under the command of Dr. Henry Jekyll (with the likeness of Russell Crowe from the film) who must fight the evil forces of Princess Ahmanet (with the likeness of Sofia Boutella).… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
266 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
67
Fresh
131 positive · 65 negative
95% range 60–73%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 131 | 65 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 32 | 1 | 29 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
450 of 594 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
67% recommend · 128 yes, 64 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 192 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (696 of 933 positive).
Players praise the game's retro pixel art and synth-wave soundtrack. [1][2][3] Many reviewers note the game is better than the movie it is based on. [4][5][6] Several players criticize the death mechanic and enemy spam as frustrating. [3][7][8]
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Representative posts
- [3]
Good pixel art and soundtrack, but it's a shame it all goes to waste purely due to the lame death mechanic which single-handedly taints this game: dying spawns a zombie clone of yourself who has all your weapons and health/ammo expansions, and the only way of reclaiming your stuff is by killing your zombie. This isn't hard in a vacuum, but it's the runback that makes this a terrible experience. You have no health …
- [16]
I finished the game in 4.3 hours and have 90 percent of items collected and 94 percent of the map explored. This is a pretty short game and a pretty standard metroidvania. I can't really recommend this game as there are much better games for the price, and although this game starts out "kinda" strong, there really is no story and the enemy variety is pretty horrible. The best thing about this game is the music. What …
- [4]
The Mummy Demastered, developed and published by WayForward, is a side-scrolling action-platformer that does something few licensed games manage to do—it outshines the movie it’s based on. Inspired by the 2017 reboot of The Mummy, the game sets itself apart by taking only the bare essentials from the film and reimagining them in a dark, pixelated Metroidvania world that pays homage to the 16-bit era. What results is …
- [12]
6/10. Slight thumbs up. Be warned about what you are getting into. YOU CAN "Soft lock" your game. I put it in quotes because when you die, you start as a new agent and your corpse becomes a zombie. You have to get back to the zombie and kill it to get your equipment back (including your HEALTH UPGRADES). This is important because you cannot avoid being hit. If your save is too far back, getting there alive, …
- [1]
---see where this game landed on my Metroidvania tier list beneath this review!--- This would have been quite special when it released in 2017. The first thing you'll notice is the striking music and visuals. Some of the pixel art depicting walls and platforms look very similar to the ones used in another game that came years later: Blasphemous 2. The music is of the 80's synth-wave style, it sounds great. There are …
Summarised from 34 of the 262 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
67% of the 192 Steam reviewers we collected recommend The Mummy Demastered. The complaint that keeps coming up: death mechanic can cause frustrating soft locks. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
The Mummy Demastered received "generally positive" reviews for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch and "mixed or average" reviews for Xbox One, with critics praising WayForward's pixel art and mastery of the Metroidvania genre, while also noting it as a massive improvement over the film it was based on.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 266 · most liked firstThe Mummy Demastered ($7.99) - hey, we all loved the 2017 The Mummy movie, right? ...okay, jokes aside, WayForward made a tie-in video game for it and it actually kicks ass. Contra run and gunning mixed in with Metroidvania world exploration. good times. store.steampowered.com/app/630310/T...
positive · AI labelView post →I'm quite fortunate to have @tbskyen.com as a contributor on my upcoming book, who tackles the idea of licensed Metroidvanias and how even a bad movie can make for a good game courtesy of The Mummy Demastered. How does the genre shift to accommodate a random soldier rather than a hero?
neutral · AI labelView post →Just wanna say y'all are nailing it. A whole bunch of fascinating games I've never heard of here, plus some great picks for underrated gems. So, another from me: Despite being part of a doomed movie franchise marketing push, The Mummy Demastered is secretly a sequel to Wayforward's Aliens DS game.
positive · AI labelView post →Good pixel art and soundtrack, but it's a shame it all goes to waste purely due to the lame death mechanic which single-handedly taints this game: dying spawns a zombie clone of yourself who has all your weapons and health/ammo expansions, and the only way of reclaiming your stuff is by killing your zombie. This isn't hard in a vacuum, but it's the runback that makes this a terrible experience. You have no health pool and no weapons besides your default plinker as you try and survive the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →By default the resolution on Deck cut off just a bit of the screen. Because of this it was impossible to see a door that needed to be blown up. So I ran around a tiny circle for about ten minutes like a jackass until I tried switching the resolution. Don't be a jackass like me
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Read if you are considering getting this game: One of the few single player games that has left me fuming. I can't believe I saw so many positive reviews for this game although I can see why they did so even against their better judgement. I want to recommend this game because it's a short experience with great art and atmospheric music, but it has a lot of flaws. Mummy: demastered is an eight way directional shooter that doubles as a metroidvania. The weapons are typical shooter fare. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love Wayforward and support them. But this game is full of random flying enemy spam, failry stiff controls, and reallllly tedious platforming. The corpse run gimick runs out fast.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are two sections where you can get locked out of progressing in the game. The first spot is after you kill the clock tower boss. If you die after that part there's is a huge chance you won't be able to progress because you spawn BEFORE the closed door. If it wasn't for that major bug this game would have worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →RIght click -> Properties -> LAUNCH OPTIONS-> DXVK_FRAME_RATE=60 %command%. The game scales game speed to fps and becomes unplayable without limiting it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imagine a GBA/DS Castlevania game, but instead of playing as a vampire hunter armed with a wip and holy water, you play as a soldier with a shotgun and a flamethrower. That should be enough info for you to decide to give this game a chance or not.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice visuals and sountrack but too much enemy spam that's annoying to fight against intead of having an interesting moveset or somthing like that. When you loose your gear and have to go back and get it in a high level area with just your base SMG and none of your health upgrades it becomes an impossible task. I just uninstalled.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was on the fence about whether to recommend or not recommend this game because it has good elements, but also terrible sluggish movement, but then two incidents happened halfway through the game that made me lean heavily towards not recommend. The first incident is the clock tower. There is a room near the top just before the boss where you have to go on top of a gear and kill a tough sword throwing skeleton and then climb the ceiling to get to the end while medusa heads, I mean birds, fly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An exercise in frustration, feels like every room and enemy is designed to be irritating rather than rewarding.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finished the game in 4.3 hours and have 90 percent of items collected and 94 percent of the map explored. This is a pretty short game and a pretty standard metroidvania. I can't really recommend this game as there are much better games for the price, and although this game starts out "kinda" strong, there really is no story and the enemy variety is pretty horrible. The best thing about this game is the music. What a waste of good music.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---see where this game landed on my Metroidvania tier list beneath this review!--- This would have been quite special when it released in 2017. The first thing you'll notice is the striking music and visuals. Some of the pixel art depicting walls and platforms look very similar to the ones used in another game that came years later: Blasphemous 2. The music is of the 80's synth-wave style, it sounds great. There are many verticle hallways reminiscent of early Metroid games, and it has a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Mummy Demastered, developed and published by WayForward, is a side-scrolling action-platformer that does something few licensed games manage to do—it outshines the movie it’s based on. Inspired by the 2017 reboot of The Mummy, the game sets itself apart by taking only the bare essentials from the film and reimagining them in a dark, pixelated Metroidvania world that pays homage to the 16-bit era. What results is a moody, atmospheric, and mechanically tight game that delivers a focused,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"The Mummy Demastered" is a run of the mill "Metroidvania" with a great presentation and some frustrating game design. The game spams enemies which will send you flying with their insane knock back and there are a lot of vertical rooms, so have fun climbing back up idiot. I can't blame the enemies though, you get so much health that the knock back is all they can do. No threat, just a minor inconvenience. The bosses are also bad, I literally beat the final boss by standing in place and shooting…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+ Nostalgia for Sega Genesis platformers Normal animation - Not comfortable jumps It is short, you can walk slowly in 5 hours Fat and uninteresting bosses There are endless enemies in places, which makes it difficult to explore Difficult at the beginning and easy at the end The plot is weak The level design is weak 7/10 Ordinary metroidvania I forgive a lot just because of age this game and the opportunity to shoot. I recommend it only to those who miss metroidvania and pixel retro graphics.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Call me scrubby but having a souls-like death system in this game ruined it for me. Especially considering the later parts of the map have an abnormal amount of enemies on the screen trying to mess with you so that you do NOT get your upgrades and weapons. This ruined the game for me so much that I uninstalled it and did not look back. Its ok if you never experience this game as WayForward is capable of much more with the Shantae series.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What are your five most obscure faves? Bonus points if nobody here has heard of them? I'll Start... • In the Realms of the Unreal (Documentary) • The Mummy: Demastered (Video Game) • Enlightenment Guaranteed (German film) • The Five Stages of Collapss (Nonfiction book) • Annihilator (Graphic Novel)
neutral · AI labelView post →A Metroidvania with retro-ish platform-shooting action that is a lot more like Contra or Contra III than Metroid. As someone who grew up playing a lot of platform shooters on 8 & 16-bit consoles (and still does to this day), I believe this is how the game tries to stand out among Metroidvanias. In true spirit of retro platform shooters: Eight cardinal directions, diagonal aim-lock, and short-hops are all you get. The ammo system encourages players to hone their aim and avoid overkilling…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will keep my initial review under the dotted line, but I've changed my mind on this game. Do to overall frustrating level design, punishing death situations, bosses that are just damage sponges (not just a sponge, but a whole pack of them), and the excessive knockback this game, is just not even fun to play. I got the flamethrower and couldn't (and didn't really want to) get back on the right path. Instead, I stopped playing this, dropped it, uninstalled it, and moved on with my life. And…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Based on the blockbuster (S)hit(-ish) movie starring Tom Cruise, this is a game where you play as...someone who isn't Tom Cruise. Unless they're pulling a Manadalorian / Samus Aran kind of trick, and your helmeted nondescript grunt was actually Tom Cruise all along. Dun! dun! dun! At the end of the game, off comes the helmet and you get a flash of that famous tw@tty grin. But, no! You are just "the man with no name", albeit your character probably does have a name, or at least a number /…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely worst metroidvania design choice: Die and lose all upgrades till you visit your body. Everytime you die to reach your body, another zombie spawns. So now you're in a tough level, without any upgrades and lots of your previous dead bodies trying to kill you along with random enemies that cause huge knockback when hit.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →'Softlock simulator' (Not technically, but it might as well be) I wish I could play more of this game but I got 'softlocked' :( Lets start with the pros. The pixel art. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. This game looks amazing. This is top tier pixel art. The world is so vibrant, the animations are super smooth, and sprite work is top notch. The combat is fast paced and the weapons (at least the ones I found) are fun and satisfying. The style is very nostalgic to the two OG Metroidvania series. Castlevania aesthetic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Mummy Monday everyone! LIVE ON #Twitch The Mummy Demastered! Time to fight with Prodigium in this hidden gem of a Metroidvania game <3 Part One! See you there <3 www.twitch.tv/ryoku_7 www.twitch.tv/ryoku_7 www.twitch.tv/ryoku_7
positive · AI labelView post →A fun tie in movie game, that's actually better than the actual film. It is a very enjoyable run and gun metroidvania.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is made "difficult" because of bullet chaos sections and then there's the whole trek back to fight your defeated avatar if you die. And to go back it steals all your weapons. The aiming is only 9 positions instead of 360 degrees. If you get hit, you get the "knockback" treatment and you can fall great heights like you're playing jump king or something. There doesn't seem to be any IFs on dodge roll. Enemies can shoot through walls but you can't. Some enemies respawn infintely. You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wasted potential. The worst death mechanic in a game I've ever played. Absolutely infuriating design. Don't waste your time or money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →6/10. Slight thumbs up. Be warned about what you are getting into. YOU CAN "Soft lock" your game. I put it in quotes because when you die, you start as a new agent and your corpse becomes a zombie. You have to get back to the zombie and kill it to get your equipment back (including your HEALTH UPGRADES). This is important because you cannot avoid being hit. If your save is too far back, getting there alive, especially in areas with constant bat spawns, if basically impossible. That aside,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3/10 bogged down by clunkly player movement surprised its such a high price, i paid hardly anything for this 9 of the gameplay hours are afk card farming
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Going to be finishing the MUMMY DEMASTERED tonight on #twitch in about four hours. Excited to show off the big finish of this fun game. Hope to see you all there ♥️ www.twitch.tv/ryoku_7/clip...
positive · AI labelView post →October 2025's #MapsOfTheMonth honour @ VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas goes to eishiya's The Mummy Demastered (PC) maps. It's a @wayforward.bsky.social game! How often have you seen a game that is better than the film that it is based on? vgmaps.com/Atlas/PC/ind...
neutral · AI labelView post →This game fits in with all the other classics. Retro syle gameplay and music. Fun to play and isn't going to leave you stressed out and dejected.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →197) The Mummy Demastered They weren’t kidding when they said this game was 10 times better than the movie it’s based on. The MetroidVania/shooter gameplay blends together perfectly with the horror theme they replicated from the movie. #justbeatit @polykillpodcast.bsky.social
positive · AI labelView post →Pretty fun game with some really good music. Wouldn't pay full price for it though. Only criticism I have are mixed feelings on the death mechanic, it's a cool concept that your agent can die and is now a thrall to the mummy, it sucks near the end of the game when you lose all of your health boosts and your trinkets. It makes trying to recover your items a pain when you have 99 health and hallways full of enemies and some of them are hitting for around 30 points of damage. I wish the dark…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun metroidvania 'rogue-lite', really makes great use of the property and design aesthetic. The only downside is that it's not very long after a few upgrades. Really makes me wish for the possibility of a sequel... despite the Dark Universe (film side of things) being largely DEAD.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a huge fan of Metroid and Castlevania, this game blends elements of the two very well. It's a shame that the movie was widely panned because it really buried this game in obscurity, not to mention that there is no chance of us getting another entry from this series. The bottom line is, if you like Metroid and Castlevania then you need to try this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In any other game if you kill the annoying flying enemy it dies, in this one it keeps spawning till it kills you and the dark souls mechanic to recover your zombie body afterwards doesnt help a bit. Im sure there is a good 2d metroidvania with some retro bangers outside of this but i cant recommend the game this way.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a weird game. Ostensibly based off the Tom Cruise Mummy flick, it takes certain cues from the movie but otherwise is just a very bare bones metroid experience. Quality pixel animation and a banger soundtrack from WayForward, as well as tight controls are in abundance for a 4-6 hour game. Unlike most movie tie-ins, The Mummy Demastered doesn't hold your hand. It expects you to have a knowledge of metroidvanias and their mechanics. Unskippable cutscenes before every boss and a frankly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game unfortunately ends up being a valid example of "How Not to Make a Metroidvania", as it severely lacks some of the most basic mechanics a decent Metroidvania game should have. The map is not detailed enough, you may not know where to enter and exit, so taking notes while playing is recommended. Overall difficulty is pretty easy and simple as it is, but beware of dying. Dying in the game is another major flaw, as it takes away all your weapons and health kits until you kill your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Side Quests is back and so is host @troytlepower.bsky.social! He is a podcaster, writer, streamer, and Prodigium soldier! The game he is talking about today is The Mummy Demastered by @wayforward.bsky.social! funandgames.libsyn.com/side-quests-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Metroid with a Castlevania skin, so a true Metroidvania. Metroid game play because of the platforming and shooting. Castlevania like atmosphere and enemy's. Awesome dark electronic soundtrack.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short oldschool metroidvania + contra gunplay with a bunch of problems. But still better than the movie. Recommend it on sale only
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I get that it's a low budget title but this just has way too many glaring issues to ignore. This starts on a technical level. There's barely any options, the game only supports resolutions up to 1080p and there's no framerate option at all, the game just defaults to your monitor refresh rate. This wouldn't be a problem, except if you go above 60fps, the enemies speed up by the same factor. Never seen anything like this, it's only the enemies, not your character, the physics, music, or sound…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished [Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land](https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/atelier-yumia-the-alchemist-of-memories-and-the-envisioned-land-switch/)! I enjoyed my time with the game, but it's a definitely a flawed one. It's buggy and poorly optimized, and it lacks the relaxing feeling and exceptional crafting systems that people expect when the see the "Atelier" name. I think the "Mixed" rating it has on…
neutral · AI labelView post →They're some of my favourites and I miss that era. The Mummy Demastered comes to mind as the most recent one. I always wish every franchise had one random old school tie in game.
positive · AI labelView post →dying in the wrong place means losing all the weapons and bombs, you start the game like starting over again, the bad side is that the enemies don't start over and it becomes incredibly difficult to get your equipment back. A bad game design and a mediocre game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a credit to The Mummy Demastered that what little of the story I can glean from the game intrigues me about the movie – in that seems far more a Quatermass-type story than a Mummy story. Shoot. This is going to end with me actually watching this thing isn't it
positive · AI labelView post →Easily the worst search-action game i've ever played, which is par for the course for anything Wayforward does. The sale is still paying too much for this. Like Shantae this game has a weird cheap yet expensive feel. Everything in this game is designed in spite of the player. Oh you got an Health pack?(E tank equivalent) Guess what along with your weapons and items, you can lose that too if you die. Easily the most pointless mechanic. Sure hollow knight did it, but at least it didn't ♥♥♥♥ on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has got style. Large part of my interest was I heard some of the music and saw the pretty art, but like maaaaaaan this game really sucks to play, like someone read the back of a box of a metroid game, stole some of the ideas from super, then implemented them poorly. Enemies feel spongy, enemy placement is outright hostile, ready to knock you into various long pits you have to climb back up, and generally halting progress while you wait for the opportunity to kill them; there's…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah, nope. It was pretty neat until I took my first death. It automatically overwrites your save to take away all your upgrades? Okay, instead of retrying that boss, I guess I'll just, not. Uninstalled.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Someone else commented on this game and it crossed my view. My two cents? The Mummy Demastered is a damn good game. @gamerthumbtv.bsky.social streamed this back in the day and I had to get it immediately and did not regret it.
positive · AI labelView post →The Mummy Demastered is an amazing game
positive · AI labelView post →The death mechanic for this game is really lame. It's neat the first time I guess in concept as your have to fight the fallen body of the former soldier who you were playing prior to dying, but you come back as a much weakened version of your former self and have to make it back to your body and even then it doesn't completely refill your ammo so you'll have to go back and farm to get back to max for the boss encounter you just died on. Then you also get to rewatch all those wonderful…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game was genuinely fun when I first opened it, it has good graphics, the gameplay is a bit simple but works well, the map design was alright. HOWEVER, there is a mechanic where once you die, your corpse is reanimated and you lose your extra health and guns. Having to regain it from killing the corpse can be a fun challenge but that would be if it was less tedious. The sheer amount of flying enemy spam and the actual act of beating your corpse with your dinky beginner rifle can get grating…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there should be a "The Mummy Demastered"-style megaman x game starring m3gan
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished Never 7: The End of Infinity (part of the [Ever 17/Never 7 Double Pack](https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/ever-17-never-7-double-pack-switch/))! Decent for its age. It's romance/mystery focused but adds some interesting sci-fi ideas in the final stretch. Its biggest problem is that all "main" routes follow the same basic formula, so they get very repetitive after a while. Two characters (Yuka and Izumi) also get "secondary" routes that changes things a bit, but neither adds…
neutral · AI labelView post →Played about hour till first boss and lost interest to continue. enemies respawn everytime and too boring enemies. reminds me old average 8bit games..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've never seen the movie (because I heard it's trash 😅) but people who haven't played it yet should definitely check out The Mummy Demastered it's an awesome game by @wayforward.bsky.social 👍🏼
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