Lost Relics

What is Lost Relics?

Lost Relics is an action-adventure role-playing game whose three-word summary from the developers is: battle, loot, survive. Players take on deadly adventures, fight terrifying enemies and dig out treasures of considerable value — some of which are blockchain items that can be sold to other players. It is a downloadable PC game and accounts are tied to Epic Games logins, which puts it closer to a conventional indie ARPG than to most things in this category.

How to play Lost Relics

You choose a loadout and enter an adventure, and the tension comes from what you are carrying. Rare blockchain items found in a dungeon are only yours once you get out with them; dying can cost you what you found. Around the core loop sit progression systems the game has built out over years — Valor, Expeditions, seasonal content such as Waygate Orbs and Breach experience, plus a substantial cosmetic layer of virtual outfits, pets, morphs and collectibles that are separate from the loot economy. Leaderboards track the players clearing the hardest content.

What makes Lost Relics different

Longevity, mostly. Lost Relics has been running and shipping updates for years while most of its 2021-era contemporaries went quiet, and it retains an active streaming community — Twitch and YouTube creators were posting Lost Relics content through 2026. The design decision underneath that is restraint: only some items are on-chain, the rest of the game is an ordinary ARPG, and the loot economy is a layer on top rather than the reason the game exists. That is why it plays like a game first.