Developer Cognition has announced Lunar Strike, a new sci-fi exploration game where you explore the moon’s south pole in the near future.

Lunar Strike is in development for Windows PC (via Steam), Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 with a release set for 2026.

Here’s a rundown on the game, plus its reveal trailer:

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.

Narrative adventure set on the Moon’s South Pole (2119) — explore a colony on the edge of collapse.

Features

• No combat — gameplay revolves around survival adventure, exploration, and preservation.
• Archival scanning tools — recover, analyze, and prioritize data across cultural, scientific, and personal domains.
• Tactical survival mechanics — manage oxygen, suit energy, and habitat systems under lunar constraints.
• Branching narrative outcomes — decisions on what to save or abandon reshape the colony’s legacy.
• Forensic reconstruction — analyse a crime scene from scanned artifacts.
• Characters that challenge your perspective .
• Grounded in real science — environments, orbital mechanics, and survival systems are modeled on current lunar research.