Engalus [PC – Cancelled]

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Crytek was founded by the Yerli brothers in 1999 in Coburg, Germany. Its history starts with the ECTS 2000, where Crytek impressed all the big publishers with their tech demos at the NVIDIA booth. [Infos from Wikipedia] In the same year Crytek announced that one of these tech demos was going to became a “full” game: Engalus, that was created with the original CryEngine 3D.

This project was meant to be a sci-fi action RPG but something went wrong and it was never released. The first released game from Crytek was Far Cry in 2004, so we can speculate that even if their CryEngine was good, they never found a publisher interested in Engalus.

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6 responses to “Engalus [PC – Cancelled]”

May 14, 2020

LiqMat

An interesting find >> https://twitter.com/DickWhitehouse/status/1185383012894048256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1185383012894048256&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftwitter.com%252FDickWhitehouse%252Fstatus%252F1185383012894048256%26widget%3DTweet

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1. May 19, 2020
  
  monokoma
  
  that’s a great find :O also it seems there is a demo of the game in a CD archived by the video game museum of Rome? I may try to send them an email to ask if they can rip it
  
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September 18, 2024

FreeckyCake

An XBOX port was in development, according to various magazines!

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October 25, 2024

videoradiostar

Demos have been found over at GTW. Just videos in their article, but it would be nice to see the files released as well. Pretty cool.

https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2024/10/engalus/

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January 2, 2025

Jerpy Pine

Apparently, both the CryTek Engalus prototype and the Deus Ex Engalus mod files leaked in late December 2024 from Ancient Engines @ Archive.org.

https://archive.org/details/@lithtechguru

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1. February 21, 2025
  
  peshkaw
  
  There was no leak. They’re just mirroring the files that were discovered by GTW. The clue of where the files are is in the GTW Engalus article itself. Not that it matters much since they’re mirrored now.
  
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