Relooted Launches February 10 for Xbox Series and PC - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 15 January 2026 / 2,992 Views
Developer Nyamakop announced the Africanfuturist heist game, Relooted, will launch for the Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on February 10.
View the release date trailer below:
Read details on the game below:
A crew. A job. A plan. Toss those ingredients together, and you’ve got yourself a classic heist—but with a few twists. Your crew members are everyday citizens (from different countries in Africa) with pretty normal careers. The job is to liberate African artifacts from Western museums. And the plan? Well, that’s up to you to create.
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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.
Teamwork Makes The Heist Work
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.
Case the Joint
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.
Get In. Get Out.
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!
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.
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Why does this come off so racist? Black people stealing? the dumb dialects and accents.... the platforming and simple puzzle elements look fine, but.... this screams low budget and effort.
It's made by a South African team, half of which is black people based on a photo on the company's website. I really don't think this is intended to be racist in any way, although I can see why in the current political climate one might be inclined to think so.
I think the premise sounds fun, but it kinda implies that it'll be black people stealing (or taking back, depending on the perspective - calling it stealing can also be seen as racist, I reckon).
The diaclets/accents are there probably to highlight the characters being from different parts of Africa, some English-speaking, some not. It's kinda dumb but also very common. Personally I haven't found it to ever be an issue, but you're not the first person I've seen call it dumb, so to each their own, clearly.
It's pretty funny: I find everything else about the game to be interesting, but I just don't think I'd enjoy the gameplay very much (not because it's bad but because it doesn't seem like my cup of tea). For you, it seems to be vice versa.
"Millennial English Graduate has been through here."
"How can you tell?"
"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."
