Relooted

I first read about this game in The Guardian a few months ago when it was featured in a few newspaper articles and reviews.

It looks at the issue of stolen artefacts in museums and galleries through a different lens. 

We know that most British museums are full of items which were originally stolen from somewhere.

The game is now out on Steam and other platforms.

Near the end of the 21st century, the political powers that be brokered a Transatlantic Returns Treaty, promising the repatriation of African artefacts from museums. Good old fashioned diplomacy was working — until it wasn’t. An amendment switched up the terms and conditions of which objects were to be returned. Museums, now knowing that only publicly displayed artifacts would be given back, were slowly removing artefacts from public display.

When life gives you lemons and museums pulling shady moves, it’s time to chuck the lemons back at life and try a new, stealthier form of diplomacy. You’ve got 70 of these artefacts to (re)loot, all of which exist in real-life and are of huge cultural, historical, and spiritual significance to the people they were taken from.