ANANSE
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A Ghanaian platform adventure
Threads of Wonder
The Great Inkling has torn Ananse's web and stolen every story. Run, swing and ride across Ghana as Kofi to free Ananse's family and bring the stories home.
Long ago, Ananse the spider kept every story in his golden web. Then the Great Inkling rose from a pot of spilled ink and tore it apart.
Ananse and his children were carried off to the coast, the forest, the savanna, the falling waters and the Kente City.
It drifts down to a fishing village, into the hands of a boy called Kofi. Follow the thread. Bring the stories home.
Meet the cast
Drag to spin
The hero
A boy from a fishing village who catches the last golden thread. He runs, double-jumps, swings from golden hooks and throws thread at anything inky.
Rescue Ananse's family
Six worlds · 33 stages
Fishing villages, palm cliffs and the Old Fort. Free Ananse from the Great Inkling.
Canopy walks, cocoa groves and rope bridges. Rescue Tikelenkelen.
Baobab plains, mud mosques and harmattan winds. Rescue Nankonhwea.
Riverbanks, Lake Volta and Wli Falls. Rescue Afudohwedohwe.
Weavers' Lane, Kejetia Market and the palace roofs. Rescue Ntikuma.
Islands of giant storybooks over a sea of ink. Face the Great Inkling for good.
One in every world
Every world has a ride. Climb aboard, dodge what comes at you, and grab the gold along the way.
Play it twice
A web over a hole in the ground is Ananse's front door. Drop in for a hidden cave full of gold that comes out further along.
Once he is free, Ananse lowers himself on his thread at checkpoints with jokes, tricks and the odd useful tip.
Find all three story tokens in a stage to unlock a tale: how Ananse won the stories, the pot of wisdom, why he is bald, and more.
The Great Inkling, a hopping toad, a diving hornbill, a charging crocodile and a weaver flinging ink, then the Great Inkling again, doing all of it at once.
See it move
Thirty-seven seconds of canoes, hornbills, trotros, secret burrows and one very large ink blob.
Free to download. No ads, no account, and it plays fully offline.
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