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BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.

Returnal™ is a action, bullet hell and rogue-like game developed by Housemarque and Climax Studios and published by PlayStation Publishing LLC.
Released on February 15th 2023 is available only on Windows in 23 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and Indonesian.

It has received 8,446 reviews of which 6,925 were positive and 1,521 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam with a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Returnal™ into these genres:

Action Bullet Hell Rogue-like Singleplayer Co-op Female Protagonist Online Co-Op Action Roguelike Third-Person Shooter Space Shooter Sci-fi Multiplayer Difficult Rogue-lite Psychological Horror Atmospheric Horror Souls-like Metroidvania

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10 64-bit (version 1903)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-6400 (4 core 2.7GHz) AMD Ryzen 5 1500X (4 core 3.5GHz)
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) AMD Radeon RX 580 (8 GB)
  • Storage: 60 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD Recommended

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025
Its a great game but has some bad bugs. A four hour run was gone because the weapons where not working as intended. This same issue was reported years ago on ps version as well with no action taken by developers. I love the game and recommend it but the game needs important bug fixes.
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Feb. 2025
After 40 hours and finally making it to the 5th biome, I've decided this is my favorite game Sony has published since Bloodbourne. Unique take on the Rogue-like genre due to blending strong production values with a gameplay loop you'd normally find from the Indie scene. I took me awhile to learn to be aggressive taking risks in terms of pickups but once I did, the game clicked. Movement and gun-play feel good. There's a nice variance in weapons. Returnal tells an interesting story while not asking you to put your controller down unlike most narrative driven games. Great atmosphere which calls back to the mystique I had the first time I played Metroid on the NES. This mashup of bullet time and Rogue-like genres contains great atmosphere, fun moment to moment gameplay, and an interesting mystery to unravel.
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Dec. 2024
Unfortunately, this is another game riddled with Unreal engine “traversal stutter”. However, if you use the engine ini file from Reddit (unreal stutter fix) + R457 graphics mod from Nexus + command line fixes, it seems to address the issue. See below https://www.nexusmods.com/returnal/mods/37 https://pastebin.com/Z4XvQqE8 (Dump the first into the paks folder, the engine ini goes into the appdata folder for Windows) Command lines to launcher: “-xgeshadercompile -nothreadtimeout -NoVerifyGC -dx12 -notexturestreaming” In fact, many of these approaches fix most unreal engine stutter, including Silent Hill 2 Remake, Jedi Survivor, FF7 Remake and others. Just have to dig around for whatever mod fixes the other 20-30% of the problem on Nexus. I took the “everything but the kitchen sync” approach once I realized this was an Unreal game. I actually have these tweaks/optimizations saved to my desktop specifically for Unreal games. The no texture streaming can be added to the ini as well, I recommend that. Doesn’t work in all unreal engine games and if you dont have a lot of vram you may crash. Just look up universal stutter fix on Reddit and it should be somewhere in one of the ini’s…. Something like r.texturestreaming = 0 under SystemSettings (going off of memory, not verbatim). I’m surprised these simple tweaks haven’t been done by the developers at least for high end hardware??? Seems like a conspiracy to encourage people to jump to the PS5 version… Game itself is amazing, but I prefer to use pak mods to lower the difficulty. Too hard at a base level. I’m not a big fan of this new “Dark Souls” impossible difficulty that has taken over gaming as a whole. Thankfully, mods do tone it down a bit and make it more enjoyable. Wish they had difficulty sliders in these “souls-like” games…easy mods make it more like “normal” difficulty. Still difficult depending on how far you go with the mods.
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Nov. 2024
11/10 game for me cannot recommend enough this is one of the greats.] --Stellar philosophical themes and compelling protagonist --Exhilarating 3rd person shooter combat --The sound design and original music are next level --Haptics for the PS5 controller are very very well thought out, I really recommend playing with one if you can I know that a lot of reviews complain about performance, but I have had no issues with RTX 3060 and AMD 5700X3D. As an aside, I'd highly recommend anyone get whatever version of the X3D CPU they can afford. Every game that hitched or crashed on my old machine runs like butter on this one. ... And the 5700 version was quite cheap as far as CPUs go too. Seriously this game is awesome. Yes, it has its difficult moments but it's really not unreasonable and you get insanely OP on some runs just by sheer luck. Experiment with the weapons and game mechanics during your first few hours playing and don't be afraid to die a lot while you learn. The game is designed with that happening in mind.
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Nov. 2024
Stunning visuals and a great gameplay loop. The story is gripping and there are some genuinely tense interactive cut-scenes. Easily one of the best games of recent years.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Returnal™ is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

Returnal™ is currently available at a 50% discount. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Returnal™ received 6,925 positive votes out of a total of 8,446 achieving a rating of 7.99.
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Returnal™ was developed by Housemarque and Climax Studios and published by PlayStation Publishing LLC.

Returnal™ is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Returnal™ is not playable on MacOS.

Returnal™ is not playable on Linux.

Returnal™ offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Returnal™ includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

Returnal™ does not currently offer any DLC.

Returnal™ does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Returnal™ does not support Steam Remote Play.

Returnal™ is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Returnal™.

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Returnal™ PEGI 16
-50% 59.99€ 29.99€
8.0
6,925
1,521
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
181
Developer
Housemarque, Climax Studios
Publisher
PlayStation Publishing LLC
Release 15 Feb 2023
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