Lunar Strike is a single-player sci-fi narrative adventure and exploration game set on the hostile environment of the Moon’s south pole in the year 2119.

Lunar Strike blends speculative fiction with a game world grounded in hard science - including orbital dynamics and applied astrophysics - and ethical decision making, as players try to archive humanity’s scientific and cultural legacy before it’s lost forever.

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.

Check out a brand new story and gameplay trailer for Lunar Strike, offering players a fresh look at life inside humanity's final inhabited lunar colony.

Alongside the new trailer reveal, Cognition has also confirmed that a playtest for Lunar Strike is now available. Taking place during the early stages of the adventure the playtest is a snapshot of the pre-alpha build of the game, introducing players to some of the main characters and the last lunar colony, New Arcadia. As they explore their surroundings, they’ll experience the game's grounded vision of lunar life, including exploration, scanning systems, environmental storytelling, and its distinctive approach to "hard" science fiction.

Key Features:

• Rich, multi-faceted narrative: Preserve the culture of the last 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. Manage oxygen, suit energy, and habitat systems under lunar constraints as you recover, analyze, and prioritize data across cultural, scientific, and personal domains.
• 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. Analyse a crime scene from scanned artifacts, decisions on what to save or abandon reshape the colony’s legacy
• 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.

Developer Cognition is closely linked to non-profit organization, The Arc/k Project, which exists to digitally preserve humanity’s collective cultural heritage. The body’s mission forms the basis for Lunar Strike’s narrative.

Lunar Strike is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam).