Today during the Day Of The Devs Summer Game Fest Showcase, South African developer Nyamakop, in partnership with Mooncat Games, revealed Relooted, a heist game where a group of thieves try to return priceless artifacts to the cultures that revere them.
Each mission in Relooted plays out in three phases: First, players will scope out the museum and locate the target artifact. Next, they’ll enter the building and create their getaway path as quietly as possible, avoiding guards and other obstacles along the way. Finally, it’s time to grab the artifact and escape using the path created in phase two.
In an interesting twist, the artifacts players will be targeting in Relooted are not fictional ones made up for the game. Instead, they are real-world artifacts that are currently sitting in Western museums, and each in-game artifact comes with a brief biography of its origin, the culture in which it originated, and why that artifact is so revered by that culture.
For example, one of the artifacts shown in the Day Of The Devs segment is the Ngadji Drum, a drum of the Pokomo people discovered in Africa in the 1870s. The drum was stolen by British colonists in the early 1900s and sent to a museum–114 years later, the brother of the Pokomo king became the first person to see the drum since its theft, when he was brought to the museum and allowed to view it in storage.
The Day Of The Devs presentation has featured world premieres and updates for multiple upcoming indie games, including Big Walk from Untitled Goose Game developer House House and mixtape from The Artful Escape dev Beethoven & Dinosaur. It also announced Snap And Grab, an ’80s-themed heist game from No Goblin and Annapurna Interactive, as well as a new look at Possessors from Heart Machine and Devolver Digital.
Relooted is scheduled to release on Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. No release window was announced during the Day Of The Devs livestream.
