LOOPS WITHIN LOOPS

Between Deathloop, Returnal, 12 Minutes,

Quantum League and Lemnis Gate, 2021 is looking like a banner year for time loops, not to mention the cinematic and televisual incarnations of the trope. It would be convenient to look at our current circumstances for explanation, but that would be ignoring the realities of game development. We have to ask, do the

Lemnis Gate team have a theory of their own? “There was that Tom Cruise movie a while ago, Edge Of Tomorrow – I think that might have got some people thinking,” Anderson says. “Remember, when you launch a game, your influences are from four or five years before that – so a lot of what was happening and coming out five years ago affects the games we’re seeing today.”