Lemnis Gate

Lemnis Gate was a turn-based first-person shooter with time loop and hero shooter elements. Games were either 1v1 or 2v2. The standard game mode, "Seek and Destroy", involved having one side defend five specific objectives from being destroyed at different points on the map while the other side attacked them. Whichever team either destroyed more objectives or defended them at the end of all the rounds would win the match.

Central to Lemnis Gate was its time loop gameplay mechanic. Each player led a team of six operatives with different abilities and took turns attempting to complete objectives in 25-second loops. Players would continue in alternating order until all of the operatives had completed a loop. Previously used operatives automatically carried out the actions that the player inputted for them in previous loops, and later operatives could disrupt the actions that they took in order to stop them from completing objectives.

The development of Lemnis Gate was inspired by conversations that started in 2015, and development began in earnest in the middle of 2017. Game Director James Anderson explained their choice of using novel time mechanics, saying, "... there's a lot of competition in the first person shooter genre, so we had to come up with a really unique hook and way to play the game." The developers felt that there was a large amount of competition in the first-person shooter space and wanted to create something with a unique take to attract players.

The game originally had a larger tutorial, but after Ratloop tested it with players, found that people were not interested in going through a lengthy intro before getting to play the game. The title of the game refers to the lemniscate, a mathematical curve that loops in on itself like a figure-eight. The game was delayed by a month to allow for more polish, and was also released on Xbox Game Pass simultaneously as its general release.

Reception to the game was generally favorable according to Metacritic, with critics praising its unique take on the hero shooter genre while sometimes criticizing its complexity. PC Gamer's Robert Zak felt that the game made familiar concepts from other first-person shooters interesting and fresh again, noting that the game "could prove an ever-swirling timesink for shooter fans with a cerebral side." Rock Paper Shotgun's Matt Cox felt differently, saying that the game's often ended up being very evenly matched and that the last person to go would often win. In a mixed review, NME's Jim Trinca felt that though the game's concept is interesting and that its ideas are brilliant, the first-person shooter mechanics that underpinned it were "underwhelming."

IGN Italy's Di Angelo Bianco echoed Trinca's thoughts, noting that the game's underlying concept made up for some of the lack of personality its setting and characters exhibited. The game was on a GameSpot list which highlighted the highest-ranked first-person shooters on Metacritic from 2021.