Saros is among the best-looking upcoming house video games, and never simply because it stars the tough and gruff Rahul Kohli. Saros will get in your head.
After a thinner-than-desirable collection of first-party PlayStation video games in 2025, Sony is coming again stronger in 2026 with Saros. Right here, the Housemarque staff has taken its third-person roguelike shooter components – as first launched in Returnal – to the following stage.
What’s the Saros launch date?
Saros is ready to launch on April 30, 2026.
The sport’s improvement and advertising have been fairly simple to date. Housemarque began engaged on Saros proper after Returnal launched in 2021, and it wasn’t revealed to the world till February 2025.
Saros was initially slated for a March 20, 2026, launch, however – introduced at The Sport Awards 2025 – was then bumped to April 30, 2026.
What platforms will Saros be accessible on?
Saros will launch completely on PS5.
Whereas likelihood is Sony will follow its latest ‘timed exclusives’ technique of progressively bringing first-party releases to PC, Saros is a PS5 unique on the time of writing.
We do not have the total record of distinctive options but, however count on it to make good use of PS5’s DualSense controller and 3D audio, in addition to PS5 Professional’s further visible enhancements.
Saros trailers
Up to now, we have seen three Saros trailers. The primary one was purely cinematic and a giant temper setter, introducing Rahul Kohli (The Fall of the Home of Usher, Midnight Mass) as Arjun Devraj, the sport’s protagonist.
It dropped on February 12, 2025, and you may watch it proper right here:
After spending many of the 12 months with out information in regards to the sport, a brand new PlayStation stream shared the first-ever gameplay with us. It is a 5-minute take a look at Arjun’s skills, a number of the distinctive weapons he comes throughout, a little bit of the setting, and the recent “second likelihood” mechanic that reminds us of Sekiro just a little bit. Have a look beneath:
Then on December 11, 2025 the official Saros pre-order trailer was revealed at The Sport Awards. We had been handled to a bit extra of the story, characters, and gameplay too:
What’s the plot of Saros?
Set sooner or later (we do not know when), Saros takes us to the fictional planet Carcosa, the place the Soltari enforcer Arjun Devraj seems into the disappearance of a complete off-world colony. It is also been teased that Arjun is on the lookout for a particular somebody, including the emotional stakes we have discovered to count on from big-budget PlayStation Studios video games to the already attractive combine.
Simply after watching that fashionable first teaser, it is clear one thing slightly horrifying occurred on the planet, and maybe the ominous eclipse bathing Carcosa in orange gentle has one thing to do with it. As alien monsters and twisted cosmic horrors attempt to cease Arjun’s advances, time loop after time loop, he begins to uncover holograms that inform a part of what occurred there.
In fact, those that have executed their homework know the saros is a interval of 223 synodic months (18 years, 11 days, and eight hours); that is used to foretell Earth’s Solar and Moon eclipses. The connection right here is clear, however how these cycles apply to the world of Carcosa is a whole thriller. And if that planet identify sounds acquainted, possibly it is since you’ve learn Ambrose Bierce’s quick story “An Inhabitant of Carcosa” or the 1895 guide The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. Or maybe you really liked the hit HBO present True Detective…
What sort of sport is Saros?
At first look, Saros is a sci-fi-themed third-person shooter with huge cosmic horror parts. That alone could be very appetizing, certain, however what if there was a time loop twist to your complete journey? And what if the participant character may get fits and gun upgrades that change with each run? That is all acquainted to those that’ve performed loads of roguelite video games up to now, however they’re hardly ever seen in triple-A video games.
Maybe the largest hurdle Saros is dealing with is the way it can clearly differentiate itself from Returnal past the change in setting and foremost character. Why a brand new property as a substitute of a sequel? Effectively, it seems Housemarque started to reply that query by placing numerous effort into Arjun’s bodily skills, that are amplified by the fight swimsuit he wears run after run. Predictably, it may be upgraded, however past enhancing stats and stacking extra passive results, these pickups can permit Arjun to leap a lot greater, actually run over the smaller enemies, and even create temporal vitality shields.
With regards to firepower, on prime of the same old shiny weapons that we’ll randomly come throughout, like in any correct roguelite, the character can block and deflect again enemy photographs, and switch the eclipse’s vitality into highly effective blasts. The draw back is that overuse of such powers can corrupt Arjun and place debuffs on him. Lengthy story quick: Saros is giving gamers extra instruments of destruction and protection, however in trade, putting a stability and studying in regards to the threat/reward related to powers is important.
Does Saros have a multiplayer mode?
Saros would not embody native or on-line co-op multiplayer.
Up to now, we have been informed Saros is strictly a single-player (albeit extremely replayable) sport, however contemplating Returnal acquired a free co-op mode lengthy after launch, we would not rule out Housemarque pulling the identical shock right here, particularly if the sport is a large enough hit.
Simply do not preorder or purchase it at launch, anticipating a multiplayer replace to come back.
