Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano

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Kao the Kangaroo:
Mystery of the Volcano
The Australian box art for Kao Mystery of Volcano.png
The Australian box art for the game.
Developer(s) Tate Interactive [1]
Publisher(s) Cenega (Poland) [2]
n3vrf41l Publishing (Australia) [3] / 1C Company (Russia) [4]
Series Kao the Kangaroo
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release
  • POL: December 2, 2005
  • EU: December 15, 2005
  • RUS: December 16, 2006 [5] [6]
  • AU: June 21, 2007
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

Kao the Kangaroo: Mystery of the Volcano (Polish : Kao: Tajemnica Wulkanu [7] ) [lower-alpha 1] is an adventure platformer video game released in 2005 by Tate Interactive. [9]

Contents

Plot

In this installment, Kao ends up in an archipelago where he has to collect four artifacts to overcome evil forces manifesting from a nearby volcano, in order to get inside and defeat the God of the Volcano and free his friend.

Release

The game, alongside the original Kao the Kangaroo and Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 were added to GOG.com and to Zoom-Platform in February 2021. [10]

The game was added to Steam [11] and the Epic Games Store [12] on 27 April 2023.

Notes

  1. Also known as Kao: Mystery of Volcano, Kao: Mystery of the Volcano, KAO the Kangaroo - Mystery of Volcano, Kao the Kangaroo Round 3: Mystery of the Volcano and Kao - Mystery of Volcano Island. [8]

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  12. https://store.epicgames.com/pl/p/kao-the-kangaroo-mystery-of-the-volcano-4b433a [ bare URL ]