Returnal developer Housemarque revealed its subsequent recreation throughout February 2025’s PlayStation State of Play. It is referred to as Saros, and the award-winning crew plans to launch it in 2026 for PlayStation 5, with enhancements for PlayStation 5 Professional.
Saros is a single-player motion recreation that follows an explorer named Arjun Devraj, performed by Rahul Kohli (Midnight Mass, The Haunting of Bly Manor), who’s stranded on an alien planet, just like Returnal. Housemarque artistic director Gregory Louden referred to as Saros an “evolution of the Housemarque gameplay-first expertise” that builds on Returnal’s construction.
“A key gameplay distinction between Saros and Returnal is everlasting assets and development making each dying precious,” Louden mentioned in a PlayStation Blog post. “After each dying you’ll face a modified world, however in Saros it is possible for you to to decide on and completely improve your loadout from an evolving set of weapons and go well with upgrades to ‘come again stronger’ to beat the challenges you face on Carcosa.
Carcosa is the planet Devraj is trapped on, a mysterious location haunted by an eclipse and always altering form. That was all Louden needed to say about Saros within the State of Play stream and on the PlayStation Weblog, however Louden mentioned Housemarque is planning a gameplay reveal for later in 2025.