Remap Developer Interview: Routine
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🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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It’s shocking that Routine, a sci-fi horror game announced all the way back in 2012, is finally here. It’s a game that died along the way, only to be resurrected in a surprise twist of fate. It’s a game that basically bankrupted the people who were making it. They were almost homeless because of it. And yet, Routine is here. It’s a video game you can play right now. Which is why it was so exciting that Patrick had a chance to chat with two of its developers about their journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Anyone who has followed my work for, well, I guess this period would extend out past 10 years. |
| 0:26.4 | Well, you know, I like horror games. |
| 0:28.0 | And you know I have been looking forward to both earnestly and ironically, a sci-fi horror game called Routine. |
| 0:36.5 | Set on the Moon announced more than 10 years ago. |
| 0:40.4 | It was something I covered when I worked over at Giant Bomb. |
| 0:43.4 | I did an interview and a podcast. |
| 0:46.7 | I guess it was an interview that I just flipped around to be a podcast. |
| 0:49.1 | Either way, I wrote about routine there. |
| 0:51.1 | I did a follow-up article at Giant Bomb tracking routine and a couple of other, |
| 0:56.5 | I think Soma and a couple other long in development horror games and got developers to give me |
| 1:01.1 | brief updates, basically like Science of Life sort of thing. I don't think I wrote about |
| 1:06.7 | routine at Kataku. I did write about routine at Waypoint. I think it was one of those. I was doing a |
| 1:15.0 | series trying to track down sort of development hell or, you know, promising indie games that were |
| 1:23.3 | announced and like, what about to them? Are they still coming along did they disappear is still |
| 1:27.7 | being made sort of thing and so i i wrote about routine then i don't think i got an update |
| 1:32.5 | and i genuinely had a reminder on my phone uh to check on the routine subreddit once a year |
| 1:39.1 | just to see what the chatter was like and then every once in a while i would send a |
| 1:43.6 | uh twitter dm to lunar software the developers a routine just being like the chatter was like. And then every once in a while, I would send a Twitter DM to Lunar Software, |
| 1:46.6 | the developers, a routine just being like, what's up? And they would often respond with hello or a |
| 1:51.9 | heart. And it would just kind of be left there. So it is truly surreal now to have routine |
| 1:58.8 | out, a game I have complicated feelings about. I, the, you know, |
| 2:05.7 | we'll probably get into this more on remap radio, but the, the, you know, you're running from |
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