Assassin's Creed Origins: 10 Things It Needs To Deliver

10. Akhenaten

Akhenaten was the weirdest person to rule Ancient Egypt, and Egypt could be a weird place.

For a start, the Pharaoh Akhenaten's statues were creepily different from any Pharaoh before or since, with bizarre stretched features like a sandstone Slenderman. He was also completely bonkers, and tried to replace the traditional Egyptian religion with the worship of Aten, the sun-god, who by astonishing coincidence was pretty much Akhenaten himself.

Ancient Egyptians didn't take kindly to that sort of thing and tried their damndest to obliterate Akhenaten from history.

Akhenaten was dead for a long, long time by the time of Assassin's Creed: Origins, but his legacy is one that could easily play into the setting. A cult of the forgotten mad Pharaoh would make for startling enemies or allies for the assassin Bayek, and his temporary capital of Akhetaten a suitably spooky and mummy-filled place to explore.

A secret Pharaoh is very much the sort of juicy historical mystery Assassin's Creed likes to get its stabby wrist-spikes into.