The Lost Ratchet & Clank Game Has Been Found – YouTube
The Golden Bolt’s coverage lays out both Clone Home’s content and the long hunt to recover it in a recent YouTube feature. In brief: the effort required years of persistence and a nontrivial financial outlay to acquire very specific, two-decade-old phone models. The search was driven by Emily and a contributor known as Super Gamer Omega Clank — college students, of course — because as the team joked, “who else has time to look for Clone Home besides college kids?”
Buying obsolete phones in bulk is often the only practical way to preserve mobile-exclusive games, but Clone Home presented an unusual challenge: it was never officially released, making the notion of finding it on a stray handset seem unlikely.
Despite that, there’s reason to think Clone Home may have briefly circulated. An old post from an Insomniac community moderator suggested that, in the early 2010s, builds of Clone Home were sent to mobile carriers and that a tiny subset of those networks may have accidentally pushed the title live for a very short window.
With the full build now recovered, that theory gains credibility. The Golden Bolt contacted sources at Sony and Insomniac; while no formal statements were provided, several insiders reportedly responded off the record and expressed excitement about the discovery.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart remains among the best PS5 games available.
Source: gamesradar.com
