Halfway through November 2022 CS:GO players have been surprised with a change to active map pool for competitive play. While the veteran Dust 2 has been put off, the newcomer to the tournament play is the Anubis. You might be familiar with this map from two years back, because it had its time on official servers. Now Valve decided to revisit it and give it a chance to shine.
Anubis is a fan-made map that uses exotic vibes to build a two–way bomb defuse scenario. Keep on reading the learn the most important things before you depart for the meeting with the arena of the god of afterlife!
What is Anubis in CSGO?
To be more precise, Anubis is a map created by Roald, jd40 and jakuza, initially as a contest entry for Mapcore Mapping Contest in 2019. The map won the competition and gained a lot of publicity from the get-go. However, it took more than an additional year of work for the map to be submitted to Steam Workshop in it’s near-final form.
Continuing the sandstone map tradition, Anubis is a great two bomb site arena with both the traditional left-mid-right division. Additionally, it introduces some new twists on vertical play. Naming the map after the Egyptian god would surely place it somewhere in Northern Africa, but it is nowhere confirmed.
After it was published there on January 31st 2020, the map was noticed by the Valve editorial. Thus, its journey to the major roster begun.

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Best Anubis Smokes And Utilities
Check out this organically flowing but hard-hitting guide of best Anubis throws by the CS all-star Nato.
Anubis CSGO Skin Collection?
When Anubis map returned to Competitive matchmaking, it gave some people ideas about future skin updates. While most other renowned maps have already received their consecutive community-made skin collections, Anubis is a blank slate in this matter.
It’s quite possible that with a new season event in 2023 we could receive an Anubis Skin Collection. The themes alluding to Egyptian mythology have already been introduced in some CSGO skins in the past. The ambience of the map’s environment makes it a great field to explore with desert-op themes and others.
Anubis CSGO Map — Summary
While not fully new, Anubis is a breath of fresh air for competitive CSGO. Valve Corp took the cautious road of reintroducing a map that has already made some fans in the past, improving it and giving a new challange to people playing for the tactics. We are sure it will stand for itself in the coming months. Can’t wait to see it fleshed out in the upcoming Majors!
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