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Lunar Strike playtest
by Cognition
A single-player hard sci-fi narrative adventure set on the Moon’s South Pole. Explore humanity’s final lunar colony, face the hostile reality of lunar survival, and decide what deserves to endure when collapse becomes inevitable.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- May 21, 2026
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- Cognition
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Lunar Strike playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Lunar Strike playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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About Lunar Strike
The disaster has already happened. What survives is up to you.
Lunar Strike is a single-player hard sci-fi narrative adventure set on the Moon’s South Pole in 2119. You are sent to humanity’s final lunar colony as a junior archivist, tasked with preserving its scientific, cultural, and human legacy.
But when sabotage pushes the colony toward collapse, your mission changes. What began as preservation becomes a race against time — to understand what happened and decide what deserves to endure.
This is not a combat game. Lunar Strike is about survival, isolation, and responsibility in one of the harshest environments imaginable. Permanent shadow, extreme cold, exposure, and failing systems shape the world around you.
Grounded in current lunar science, Lunar Strike is a mystery about memory, preservation, and what humanity chooses to save when collapse becomes inevitable.
Narrative adventure set on the Moon’s South Pole (2119) — explore a colony on the edge of collapse.
- Scan and preserve a dying lunar colony Recover scientific, cultural, and personal records before they are lost.
- Investigate sabotage through forensic reconstruction Analyse scanned evidence, piece together what happened, and uncover hidden connections.
- Survive the Moon without combat Manage oxygen, suit energy, power, and habitat systems under real lunar constraints.
- Make irreversible archival decisions What you save, ignore, or abandon shapes the colony’s future and legacy.
- Explore a hard sci-fi world grounded in real science Lunar environments, infrastructure, and survival systems are inspired by current research.
- Navigate a branching narrative with lasting consequences Your choices influence relationships, memory, and multiple possible outcomes.
From the game's Steam page.
