Returnal

Returnal is a 2021 roguelike video game developed by Housemarque and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was released for the PlayStation 5 on April 30, 2021 and Windows on February 15, 2023. The game follows Selene Vassos, an astronaut who lands on the planet Atropos in search of the mysterious “White Shadow” signal and finds herself trapped in a time loop. Wikipedia

Returnal
Returnal

Research exclusive to this game

Orbán, Szabolcs Gergely, György Norbert Szabados, Éva Bácsné Bába, Veronika Fenyves, Zoltán Bács, Anikó Molnár, Gergely Ráthonyi, and Hussain Rizwan. “Roguelike games: The way we play.” International Journal of Engineering and Management Sciences 7, no. 4 (2022): 80-92.

Research that includes this game in its sample

Evans, Monica. ““Should My Best Prove Insufficient, We Will Find Another Way”: Time Loop Mechanics as Expressions of Hope in Digital Games.” In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 198-209. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.

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