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# Lofsöng hides a nuclear warning
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/a-nuclear-warning-is-the-level-design-in-lofsong/
- Published: 2026-09-30T20:37:04.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-30T20:37:03.000Z
- Description: Alessandro Durando's wordless adventure sends you across brutalist monuments carved to outlast the language of their builders.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, steam, Architecture, Sound, Brutalism, italy, adventure, tribeca, gamescom, Unrelated Studio

There is a spiral cut into the stone floor like a record groove, and a small figure in bulky headgear standing beside it, listening. *Lofsöng*, the first game from Unrelated Studio in Turin, directed by Alessandro Durando, is an exploration adventure with no dialogue, no map and no text you can read on arrival: an invented language, buried in monuments, that the game teaches you to hear. It premiered in the Tribeca Games program in June, showed a new trailer called "Bergmál" at gamescom Opening Night Live, and is [wishlistable on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3845010/Lofsong/?ref=killscreen.com) now, release date to be announced.

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From the "Bergmál" trailer. Watch the [full trailer with sound on Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/3845010/Lofsong/?ref=killscreen.com)

The setting is Earth, long dead: an Exclusion Zone of dust and ash in a permanent nuclear winter, which you cross with a shapeshifting origami companion that folds into a kite, a glider, a sailboat. "Every monument in *LOFSÖNG* was built to be read," the studio writes, and that is the k design: geometry and sound doing the work of words, sculptures you play like instruments until the stone gives up what it remembers.

Many years ago, I remember someone from the Longnow Foundation telling me about the problem of marking nuclear waste sites for an unknown future audience. It's a problem that has haunted engineers since the Sandia reports on marking waste sites for a 10,000-year audience, the ones that produced the line "this place is a message." Their answer was hostile earthworks and granite warnings; Durando's answer is a game where the warning system is the world, and reading it is the verb. 

The title leans Icelandic too: *lofsöngur* is a hymn (and their national anthem), *bergmál* an echo. Killscreen has been listening to concrete for a decade, from the artist who [gave brutalist architecture a singing voice](https://www.killscreen.com/hard-love-brute/) in 2016 to [*VHOLUME*](https://www.killscreen.com/vholume-is-out-parkour-under-a-brutalist-ministry/) this month. *Lofsöng* is the first one that asks the concrete to sing back.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/09/lofsong-screenshot-1.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/09/lofsong-screenshot-4.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/2026/09/lofsong-screenshot-5.jpg)

Across the Dust Sea of **Lofsöng*. Images: Unrelated Studio

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