Sony’s State of Play livestream at present was brief on main information, however there was one stunning nugget: Returnal is getting a beefy replace on March twenty second. Returnal: Ascension provides co-op capabilities and a brand new survival mode to the sport, and it will be utterly free.
Returnal is a PlayStation 5 unique developed by Housemarque. It’s a roguelike shooter the place gamers are trapped in a time loop on a hostile alien planet, and it will get a whole lot of issues proper, together with huge enemies and a punishing reward system. As a PS5 unique, Returnal makes good use of the DualSense controller’s haptics and Sony’s 3D audio tech.
Ascension will probably be Returnal’s 3.0 replace. The recreation’s 2.0 replace in October 2021 added photograph mode and a suspension choice that allowed gamers to avoid wasting their progress mid-run, however solely underneath sure circumstances. It is a roguelike, in any case.