7 Reasons Saros Struggles With Its Roguelike Identity
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When Housemarque declared 'ARCADE IS DEAD' after Matterfall’s 2017 release, the studio signaled a dramatic shift. The result was Returnal, a critically acclaimed roguelike third-person shooter that merged the chaos of arcade shooters with permadeath and procedural loot. Now, Saros—Returnal’s spiritual sequel—finds itself in a strange limbo: it is technically a roguelike, yet every design choice seems to resist the label. Developers speak in evasions, calling genre 'ephemeral' and admitting only to 'rogue elements.' So why does Saros exist as a roguelike if it doesn’t want to be one? Here are seven key facts that unpack this dilemma.
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