Relooted is the African relic repatriation heist game you didn’t realize you needed
June 16, 2025When making a game about the repatriation of artifacts taken from Africa, the biggest struggle that developers Nyamakop faced wasn’t finding enough real-world artifacts to include; it was narrowing the list from the glut of options.
“It was quite an involved process,” said Ben Myres, the Creative Director of Relooted. “We had two researchers over two years. There were so many.”
Ultimately, the team settled on the artifacts to use in Relooted by focusing on the stories tied to them.
“We looked for artifacts with great stories in terms of how they were looted,” he said. “Why were they important to people? Just anything associated with them.”
For instance, one artifact in the game is a drum from Kenya. The people of Kenya thought it was destroyed years ago, Myres said.
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