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One Of 2026’s Most Underappreciated Gems Is On Sale And Just Got A Free Update, So Now’s The Time To Give It A Shot
Saros, Housemarque’s super-tough psychological shooter, is probably still my favorite game of 2026 thus far, even as some post-launch interviews may have thrown a cold bucket of water on the fire in my soul about it. Despite that, I still absolutely loved my time with the game, dodging and weaving through multi-colored projectiles and learning about the no good, very bad things that brought protagonist Arjun to the dangerous world of Carcosa. If you missed the game when it first came out in April, now’s a perfect time to jump in because not only is the game on sale on the PlayStation Store, but it’s gotten a free update that brings a ton of new features and challenges, as well as some helpful tools.
The Zenith update features a lot of post-game content, such as a New Game+ mode that is designed to be more difficult than your first playthrough, the addition of new modifiers that let you tweak the difficulty to be either easier or more challenging, and a boss rush mode for those who want to try to face Carcosa’s biggest and baddest in rapid succession.
What’s most exciting to me, however, is that there’s new story content in the form of Visions Arjun can collect in the New Game+. There are apparently 12 of these found in the Zenith update, and I genuinely have no idea what they might reveal, so I’m eager to find out.
Saros’ sales numbers, which were probably not helped by the game only launching on PlayStation 5 as Sony is moving away from PC ports, were reportedly not as high as those of Housemarque’s previous game, Returnal. If you were one of the people who skipped it earlier this year, there’s so much to dig into now, and it’s $20 off on the PlayStation Store until October 22. Join us in purgatory. The Sun is forever.
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