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Summary

The Artifact is a sci-fi themed spin on the classic escape the room game. Players explore different locations, using 22nd century technology to crack codes and solving increasingly head scratching puzzles that will help decipher the mystery of the alien device, and perhaps what lies beyond...

Genres

Indie

Platforms

PC (Microsoft Windows)

Release Date

June 1, 2017 (8 years and 2 months ago)

Franchises

The Artifact

Community

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Richard Garfield, who helped create Magic: The Gathering, is no longer working on Valve’s troubled card game Artifact. The designer confirmed in a recent interview that he was one of the contractors laid off by Valve. “We weren’t surprised by the layoff considering how rocky the launch was,” he said.