Returnal is a PS5 exclusive being developed by Housemarque.
The game revolves around a woman stranded on an alien world, stuck in a timeloop.
Returnal has been delayed to April 30, 2021.
Returnal is an upcoming third-person sci-fi shooter developed by Housemarque for the PS5. While this adventure was originally set to be available on March 19, players will need to wait a bit longer to enjoy this PS5 exclusive title. Sony confirmed today that Returnal is delayed to April 30, citing a need for additional polish.
Update: Returnal has a new release date of April 30, 2021. SIE and Housemarque have made the decision to move the release date in order to give the team extra time to continue to polish the game to the level of quality players expect from Housemarque.
Hades (another game that ended up on more than one game-of-the-year list).
Microsoft had fewer exclusives, a function of its cross-platform ecosystem that, for Xbox fans, has long been a feature rather than a bug. But even the Xbox got a couple of sleeper exclusives that deserve more attention than they ve gotten, including a reboot of Rare s classic
Battletoads franchise, as well as a genuinely awesome (if eight-year delayed) U.S. release for SEGA s wild RPG
Phantasy Star Online 2. More importantly, there s a
lot more unique gaming goodness on the horizon for the Xbox Series X/S.
That brings us to why we re really here: to take stock at the start of 2021 of the most anticipated exclusive games set to come out this year on each of the major consoles. For now, we re focusing on games with confirmed 2021 release dates, which means some big-name titles are conspicuously absent in the list that follows (we re looking at you,