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Returnal marries the roguelike and third-person shooter genres in Housemarque's PlayStation 5 exclusive. You play Selene, an explorer stranded on the planet of Atropos, and must battle both hostile aliens and a time loop to discover what happened.

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Returnal

Platform(s)
PS5
Released
April 30, 2021
Developer(s)
Housemarque
Publisher(s)
Sony
Genre(s)
Third-Person Shooter
ESRB
T for Teen: Blood, Mild Language, Violence

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