Locator: The Search for Abigail Lidari is an indie sci-fi mystery from Empty Exhibit, with Playstack, the publisher behind Balatro, handling publishing. It’s on its way to Steam, and its latest trailer showed up during the PC Gaming Show in June 2026. The hook is simple and pretty strong: GeoGuessr-style map deduction, but folded into a mystery on the alien planet Farrow.
You play as a cartographer trying to trace the path of missing astronaut and archaeologist Abigail Lidari. To do that, you’re piecing things together from photos, field notes, journal entries, black hole research, ruins, skylines, and maps, working out where she went and what happened along the way.
Critics and early players have been reaching for a familiar set of comparisons: alien GeoGuessr, Sherlock Holmes, Return of the Obra Dinn, and The Case of the Golden Idol. Locator also has a rule-of-three system, which asks you to correctly identify three locations before the game accepts that your deductions hold up.
A demo released in January 2025 got a warm response from early players and preview coverage alike. People kept pointing to the art direction, the detail in the maps, and the steady, satisfying rhythm of the investigation. Not every note was glowing, though. A few previews said the challenge felt a little too easy.
If you’re into mystery games that let you investigate by reading evidence instead of chasing quest markers, Locator: The Search for Abigail Lidari looks like an easy one to put on your wishlist. And Abigail Lidari’s story seems to matter here. The game frames it as an empathetic reconstruction of her journey, not some distant, clinical cold case.
You can wishlist Locator: The Search for Abigail Lidari on Steam now, and the demo is there too if you want to try it while waiting on a full release date. That wait now comes with a fresh look at the game, thanks to the trailer shown at the PC Gaming Show in June 2026.
