Developed by Mighty Polygon and released in 2020, Relicta is a first-person physics-based puzzle game set on an abandoned lunar research station called Chandra Base. The player takes on the role of a physicist stranded on the Moon, navigating terraformed craters while manipulating gravity and magnetism to solve increasingly complex environmental puzzles. These two core mechanics must be combined in creative ways to progress through the derelict facility. Alongside the physical challenges, the game presents a narrative set in the 22nd century involving orbital politics and a mysterious anomaly connected to the station, with clues scattered throughout the environments that gradually piece together a broader story. The protagonist's daughter is in danger, adding personal stakes to the investigation. Relicta is available on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Google Stadia, and features an original soundtrack designed to complement its science fiction thriller atmosphere.
The year is 2120. Dr. Patel is the best physicist in human space. She has been studying enigmatic gravitational anomalies in the south pole of the Moon - but she was never prepared for what she’d find there. Ever since the War, the massive base under the lunar rock has laid derelict and forgotten. Its dead silence conceals something darker than the depths of Shackleton Crater. Something that was there centuries before the greedy ice miners, the idealistic pirates and the self-righteous corporations came in search of forbidden secrets. Secrets capable of covering the barren regolith in lush jungle, altering entire magnetospheres or deploying even more insidious effects. And now Patel is trapped on Luna, with nothing but her brains and her gravitoelectromagnetic gloves. She will have to navigate the mind-bending experiments left behind by Aegir Labs, while she tries to unravel the mysteries of the anomaly codenamed Relicta.
