Lunar Evacuation Becomes Battleground in Liu Cixin's Next Sci-Fi Game

Studio Surgical Scalpels is developing The Wandering Earth: The Last Full Moon, a third-person shooter grounded in Liu Cixin's 23,000-character novella about humanity's desperate flight from an expanding Sun. Players assume the role of an engineer deployed to the Moon during the "Braking Era"—a 2,500-year planetary escape plan—just as factions clash over whether to preserve Earth or abandon it for starships. The game skips the 2019 film adaptation entirely, returning to the novella's hard sci-fi foundations with Cixin's direct approval. Development began after Chinese New Year following a grueling 12-month proposal phase between Surgical Scalpels and Starry Dome, the IP licensor. A playable multi-level demo is already circulating internally, with the team positioning this as a fresh IP distinct from their previous zero-gravity shooter Boundary.