Loot is such a common gaming term used to describe any kind of reward a player can obtain, be it trivial trinkets or something that gives you a gameplay buff, that it's easy to forget its real definition refers to stolen valuables, often as a result of war. It's something that Relooted confronts head-on, as it's about stealing real artifacts, or rather, stealing back African artifacts that had been stolen away from Africa over centuries of plundering the continent that it has endured from Western colonialism.
While repatriation has been an ongoing debate for decades, the idea first came to Ben Myres, creative director at South Africa-based indie studio Nykamakop, during a trip to London some years ago.
