Featuring real artifacts looted from their countries and currently held in Western museums and private collections, Relooted is a fast-paced action/adventure brought to life by a lovable crew.

A crew. A job. A plan. In Relooted, toss those ingredients together, and you’ve got yourself a classic heist — but with a few twists. Your crew members are everyday citizens with pretty normal careers  from different countries in Africa. The job is to liberate African artifacts from Western museums. And the plan? Well, that’s up to you to create.

Near the end of the 21st century, the political powers that be brokered a Transatlantic Returns Treaty, promising the repatriation of African artifacts from museums. Good old fashioned diplomacy was working — until it wasn’t. An amendment switched up the terms and conditions of which objects were to be returned. Museums, now knowing that only publicly displayed artifacts would be given back, were slowly removing artifacts from public display.

When life gives you lemons and museums pulling shady moves, it’s time to chuck the lemons back at life and try a new, stealthier form of diplomacy. You’ve got 70 of these artifacts to (re)loot, all of which exist in real-life and are of huge cultural, historical, and spiritual significance to the people they were taken from.

It all starts with a troublesome little brother, who, yeah, gets you into all sorts of messes. But thankfully, as Nomali, you’ll meet more reliable crew members from different African countries. Recruit people from the classic hacker to… your prim and proper grandma? Don’t worry, grandma pulls her weight.

Plan ahead to lay the groundwork for a beautiful masterpiece of an escape. Check the getaway route, fiddle with puzzles and obstacles, and find spots to recruit the help of the right teammates.

Once you’ve set the stage carefully and the artifact is sitting all pretty — looking quite not-stolen, but no worries, you’re gonna fix that ASAP — this is the moment to perform. Plucking an artifact from its resting spot starts the countdown timer, and with Nomali’s flow-based parkour abilities, escape should feel like you’re in the fun, montage part of a heist movie. But if you slacked on the planning phase, you’re gonna pay for it!

Relooted now has a playable PC demo up on Steam.

If you've been looking for heist action, now is the chance to scratch that itch. Kick off with some introductions to your crew members and learn why these artifacts should be returned. Next is figuring out the best way to overcome puzzles and utilise your crew and gadgets for your upcoming mission.

Once you're briefed about the heist, it's time to put everything you've learned to the test! How quickly do you think you could escape?

This demo gives Players a taste of what Relooted is like in roughly 30-60 minutes (more with replaying!)

The structure of the demo is as so:

• Intro cinematic
• Tutorial level in VR
• Hideout exploration
  • Talk to the team
  • Read about previously collected artifacts
  • Get a briefing on your next heist
• Heist mission from early mid game (multiple ways to complete the heist)
• Closing cinematic hinting at the game’s story

The order of the cinematics and the level are custom for the demo to quickly let you experience the heist gameplay loop.

Key Features:

• Pull off heists: Plan and prepare your escape route by solving puzzles and placing teammates in the right place. When you’re ready, take the artifact and escape with Nomali’s flow-based parkour abilities. 
• Recruit a crew: Meet and gradually recruit different team members with their unique abilities.
• Explore an Africanfuturist setting: With a Hideout based in South Africa, you’ll see parts of Johannesburg imagined in the future
• Reclaim Real Artifacts: Recover 70 artifacts that exist in real-life, all of which are of huge cultural, historical, and spiritual significance to the people they were taken from.

Relooted is coming to PC (Steam) and Xbox consoles soon.