Lunar Strike launches in May 2026
Science-fiction narrative adventure and exploration game dated.
Science-fiction narrative adventure and exploration game Lunar Strike will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam in May 2026, developer Cognition Europe announced.
Here is an overview of the game, via Cognition Europe:
About
Lunar Strike is a single-player narrative adventure and exploration game set on the Moon’s South Pole in the year 2119.
You play as a junior archivist sent to document humanity’s final lunar colony. Your mission begins with scanning and preserving scientific, cultural, and personal records.
But when sabotage destabilizes the colony, the task shifts to survival under real lunar conditions: managing oxygen, power, and time while deciding what knowledge and memory must endure. Every choice shapes the archive—and the outcome of the colony itself.
Developed with ethical questions of legacy, memory, and responsibility at its heart, players will face increasingly difficult challenges to build and preserve the archive, with multiple outcomes driven by their decisions and values.
Key Features
- Rich, Multi-Faceted Narrative – Preserve the culture of the last remaining lunar colony while making game-altering decisions that impact the story, unravelling a new future for humanity.
- No Combat – Lunar Strike focuses on survival, scanning, puzzle solving, and decision-making. The gameplay unfolds under time pressures, environmental degradation, and mounting ethical tension.
- Grounded in Hard Science – Developed in collaboration with space researchers, the game incorporates realistic systems and hazards, including 1/6th lunar gravity, toxic Moon dust, and real-world physics.
- Cultural Heritage as Gameplay – Preserve humanity’s story on the Moon. Through 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and archival logic, capture the final traces of lunar life before its collapse.
- Rooted in Real Ethics and Science Fiction – Inspired by real-life heritage efforts, built by creators with backgrounds in cultural preservation and storytelling, Lunar Strike invites thoughtful engagement with space exploration.
Watch a new trailer below.