Relooted: an Africanfuturist heist game where you reclaim real African looted artifacts from Western museums.

Payday gang probably would have just sold them at a massive upcharge back to african nations but the spirit is there
- Payday Gang now includes H3H3 so they'd probably sell them to the US or Canada tbh.

There's a conspiracy theory (I believe sort of) that a series of international art heists of the mid 2010s were banked rolled by the PRC to return Chinese artifacts taken during the century of humiliation.

Libs and chuds thinks it portrays the PRC as sinister and secretive not based AF which it would be if true.

I tend to think the professional robbers know that representatives from PRC will buy them and store them for the future, but not that they're actively commissioning the heists.

I wonder if that could be wealthy Chinese people wanting an artifact for their private collections?
this article basically claims that https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-chinese-art-heist
I've heard this and I want a mission: impossible style movie about it so bad.

I'm not a gamer but this might tempt me

something made me read this in the same cadence as tupac saying “i aint a killer but dont push me”
- Ain’t a gamer but don’t tempt me
  Gonna pound these mountain dews until they’re empty
  (denial is a river beat - not pac)

I regret reading the comments.

I have some experience with this topic in real life and boy howdy would some of the people involved in the reclamation here get angry at the words "artifact". It probably makes sense for the game, it seems light hearted and all which is cool, but a surprising number of those "artifacts" are just human remains which are neither displayed - guess that'd be macabre - but also we're just not giving them back.
Point being; the idea that these artifacts and actual human remains were looted is an absolutely fringe position. Sure that comment section goes wildly fucking racist with it but I don't think most people'd disagree with it if phrased just a tiny bit nicer

What a cool concept. Is it Epic Games store exclusive?

There's a Steam listing and the trailer says it'll be on whatever the current Xbox is

That's badass

Nothing quite like internet comment sections to reaffirm the need for ~~reeducation camps~~ pits.

What makes something African futurist? Is it just a vision of the future that puts African styles and cultures forward instead of sanfransokyo?

[Africanfuturism] was coined by Nigerian American writer Nnedi Okorafor in 2019 in a blog post as a single word. Nnedi Okorafor defines Africanfuturism as a sub-category of science fiction that is "directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point-of-view..and...does not privilege or center the West," is centered with optimistic "visions in the future," and is written by (and centered on) "people of African descent" while rooted in the African continent.
Probably gonna be fuckin up some brits
since this is specifically Africanfuturist instead of Afrofuturist, which has an african diaspora/USA focus
- Cool beans, seems interesting.
  It's pretty gross how ignored a fucking giant arse slice of the world drenched in history and cultures is.
- How is this different from afrofuturism? The same premise but a different aesthetic?

Those comments are fucking vile. Game sounds cool though.

When is this expected to release?

Game sounds cool. Heists are a really under-utilized video game conceit - the heists in GTA are the best part of that game, then there's Payday 1&2 and... is that it? I think there was an indie game too where each character had a special ability, but I can't remember the name.

The indie game you are thinking of is probably Monaco.
- Monaco was very fun, even with randoms
There is a heist game coming from one of the guys responsible for immersive sims. The downside though is it will be multiplayer.
ya im surprised there aren't more games that revolve around heists, and executing them perfectly could be a great risk/reward system
There's a title coming out next year called Den of Wolves, which is literally a cyberpunk-themed Payday game. It's also made by the same devs who made GTFO and ironically used to work on Payday 1&2.

Epic Games will find a way to make this racist

Cool idea, probably would be fun as fuck to go around the world, if it is co-op then it would be amazing to play together