Housemarque announces to Saros, his return successor

In today’s game event, the “more thing” that closed the program was the revelation of a new house of Housemarque. The new title, Saros, was only shown in a film trailer that revealed little about the game, but that caused details about the story and the environment and that the gameplay will be based on the previous title of the studio, returnal. Saros is expected to be launched at some point in 2026.

The film trailer shows the protagonist, Arjun Devraj, played by Rahul Kohli, a release executor caught in a world called Carcosa under the gaze of an eclipse. He prepares to fight a monster with multiple arms that seems to launch an attack in the style of bullets in the last seconds of revelation. Housemarque will reveal more details about the game at the end of this year.

Housemarque comes from the success of its previous title, returnal, which specifically appointed during revelation. The Roguelike Shooter in the third person, which was launched in 2021, sold more than one million units in two years and won numerous awards, including the best action game in the 2021 game awards. According to Housemarque, he created a new IP for Saros because he wanted him to return “will stop alone.”

Regarding how Saros differs from return, said creative director Gregory Louden in A blog post“A key distinction of the game between Saros and the return are permanent resources and progression, which makes each death valuable. After each death, you will face a changed world, but in Saros you can choose and permanently update your burden of a set of weapons and updates of an in evolution to “become stronger” to overcome the challenges you face in Carcosa. “