Harebrained Schemes teases GRAFT, its new game

Harebrained Schemes, the developer of Shadowrun, BattleTech, and The Lamplighters League, has teased its newest project: GRAFT.  A short teaser on social media site X shows a futuristic city with skyscrapers built around a large hole leading underground. After a few seconds, the lights on all buildings begin to flicker and then die out completely, with the white light coming from inside the giant tunnel turning to a menacing red.  In the second half of the teaser, we’re shown an orbital megastructure hovering above a planet with the game’s title coming in, flickering as if it was fighting against interference. The developer’s website doesn’t offer any other hints as to what GRAFT may be about, though with Harebrained Schemes’ pedigree we’re probably right to assume that it’s cooking up some sort of tactical experience. In a blog post from March 2024, Harebrained Schemes’ executive producer Mike McCain wrote that the team had come to GDC in San Francisco “with a stronger prototype and vision for our next game