Returnal

Returnal is an upcoming third-person shooter psychological horror video game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game is set to be released for the PlayStation 5 on April 30, 2021.

Returnal is a third-person shooter psychological horror video game featuring roguelike elements. Set in a futuristic science fiction setting, the player controls Selene, a space pilot, equipped with a suit and armed with high-tech weapons, who is stranded on an alien planet and stuck in a time loop. After every death, the pilot is resurrected, following a pattern of traversing across foreign environments and combating extraterrestrial entities with growing visions in an ever changing world.

The game will take advantage of the PlayStation 5's DualSense controller and Tempest Engine to support advanced haptic feedback and 3D spatial audio, enhancing the player immersion experience. With the increased processing power and inclusion of a custom solid state drive storage in the PlayStation 5, the game will feature reduced loading times and a wide variety of enemies, visual effects, and objects within gameplay scenes.