Relooted

It is an action-platformer. Heists consist of three phases: the first involves examining the location of the artifact, as well as security features to be overcome; the second involves searching the location while evading alerts and planning an escape route; and the third involves obtaining the artifact and running from security forces.

After the player acquires the artifact, a 30-second countdown begins, the player will encounter drones and non-human entities as they escape from the museum. The player has to escape according to the plan created in the previous phase. Lack of precision and fluidity of movement would lead to an unsuccessful escape due to a gate shutdown or the player's health depletion.

The game is set in the year 2099 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The world powers have agreed on a treaty called the Transatlantic Returns Treaty for the return of artifacts. An amendment to the treaty subsequently instituted a rule whereby museums only had to return publicly displayed artifacts. Museums responded by quietly removing their artifacts from the public, effectively protecting the artifacts from repatriation.

Professor Grace, a retired South African art historian, had worked on the treaty her entire life and was now fed up with inaction. Since the museums had removed the artifacts from public display, they cannot report them as missing or stolen without revealing they'd been hiding them in the first place. In an abandoned warehouse turned HQ, Professor Grace devises a plan to break into the museums and private collections.

Relooted was developed by South African game studio, Nyamakop. Development of the game started in 2018, and involved a team of about 30 developers. Ben Myres served as the Creative Director, Mohale Mashigo served as the narrative director, and Sithe Ncube served as the game producer.

Lead developer Ben Myres said, "We wanted to make it feel like you're in a heist montage for a movie of your own plan," Myres was inspired by both games such as Mirror's Edge and Teardown, and the TV show Leverage. Myres compared the solutions of each puzzle to solving a broken Rube Goldberg machine, in which players have to solve to progress through the level. Myres also added that Relooted was created to give players an optimistic feeling of the repatriation of cultural artifacts.

The PC version of Relooted received "mixed or average" from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received fair approval, being recommended by 64% of critics.

The A.V. Club gave the game a B+.