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SAROS (2026) Review:

Saros is an excellent roguelite held back by DEI era story telling, poor story - especially the third act and an even worse main character. It suffers from all the issues with Western AAA game development portraying weak male characters with no redemptive qualities you're forced to hate and perfect Mary Sue female characters worth worshipping. It promotes narcissism and selfishness as "good" - very wrong messaging apt for a selfish brainwashed EU society. The game could've been far more grand in scale and explored ideas of cosmic horror like Dead Space, if it didn't wear it's messaging like a thorn on its head. Horribly missed the mark in storytelling, while excels in almost every other department like gameplay, graphics, music and world design. Like many Sony first party studios trying to copy The Last of Us, Saros falls flat in the story department but excels in its roguelite gameplay.

+ves:
✅ Awesome World design
✅ Incredible boss fights
✅ Excellent and smooth 60FPS Gameplay
✅ Devs learned from Returnal with run suspend
✅ Excellent DualSense haptics
✅ Satisfying combat with depth
✅ Very good weapon selections like Repeater Crossbow, Rifles and Pistols
✅ Satisfying and addictive roguelite gameplay loop
✅ High repeat gameplay value
✅ Very beginner friendly

-ves:
❌ Very easy compared to Returnal
❌ Beta cuck ass story, horrible slop writing
❌ Shotguns suck
❌ Third act is a humiliation ritual
❌ Girl boss, Mary Sue female characters
❌ Weak, pathetic main character Arjun
❌ Tired, cliched trash DEI storyline

Overall Rating: 8.5/10