Scifigame Routine is being revived ten years after its initial announcement

Indie developer Lunar Software shows new footage of Routine, a sci-fi horror game first announced a decade ago. Development of the game has resumed, with help from publisher Raw Fury. The game is coming to Xbox consoles and 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 the necessity of survival, as the base completely grinds to a halt,” write the makers on Steam. Players must ‘search for answers’ and come into contact with robotic enemies in the process.

Routine was first announced in 2012 with the announcement that the game would be released in 2013. The game was postponed several times and then it remained silent for a long time. Developer Lunar Software, consisting of four employees, states on its website explanation of 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 could not 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 do not 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 become part of the Game Pass subscription.

Gameplay trailer from 2013

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 match the footage from the new trailer.