Heist game Relooted gets a release date

"The intriguing Africanfuturist heist game, Relooted, is out on February 10. Developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop, the game focuses on a ragtag crew from Johannesburg that liberates real-life African artifacts from a series of fictionalized Western museums. is best described as a 2.5d side-scrolling action platformer with stealth and puzzle elements. You have to carefully plan each heist with your fellow teammates, knowing where to place each crew member and how you're going to get in and out in one piece."

"The studio's previous game, the platformer Semblance, was significant for being the first South Africa-developed IP to come to a Nintendo console when it launched on Switch in 2018. At E3 that same year, Nyamakop programmer Cukia Kimani and designer Ben Myres talked to about the difficulties of getting your game in front of the major platform-holders as an indie developer based in sub-Saharan Africa."

Relooted is an Africanfuturist heist game developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop, scheduled for release on February 10 for PC and Xbox. The player leads a ragtag Johannesburg crew that liberates real-life African artifacts from fictionalized Western museums. Gameplay is a 2.5D side-scrolling action platformer with stealth and puzzle elements that requires careful planning of crew placement and coordinated execution; alarms trigger limited escape windows after artifact grabs. Nyamakop's prior game Semblance became the first South Africa-developed IP on a Nintendo console in 2018. The developers faced difficulties getting noticed by major platform-holders and undertook significant globe-trotting. No Switch or Switch 2 release is currently lined up.

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