Sci-Fi Game Routine Revived Ten Years After First Announcement

Indie developer Lunar Software shows new footage of Routine, a sci-fi horror game first announced ten years ago. The development of the game has been resumed, with the help of publisher Raw Fury. The game is coming to Xbox consoles and the PC.

According to the makers, the new trailer contains images from the game itself, but it does not seem to be about gameplay. The sci-fi horror game is set on an abandoned moon base in the 1980s, in an alternate reality. “Remarkable discovery turns into survival necessity when the base comes to a complete standstill,” write the makers on Steam† Players must ‘search for answers’, encountering robotic enemies in the process.

In 2012, Routine was first announced with the announcement that the game would be released in 2013. The game was delayed several times and then it was quiet for a long time. Developer Lunar Software, consisting of four employees, states on its website explanation about the long silence† The team thought it was done with the game years ago, but then found more and more things that it was not happy with. The makers had been working on the game for five years on a very limited budget and felt they couldn’t release it in that state.

Now the team has teamed up with publisher Raw Fury and development can be restarted, says Lunar Software. A release date has not yet been announced; the makers say they don’t want to make the same mistake as ten years ago. The game will be released “when finished” on Steam and on current and previous generation Xbox consoles. The game will also be part of the Game Pass subscription.

2013 gameplay trailer

In 2013, the makers already showed a gameplay trailer of an alpha version of the game. It is still on Lunar Software’s YouTube channel, although it is now referred to as ‘archive’. The setting and atmosphere of the old gameplay video matches the footage from the new trailer.