Returnal developer Housemarque has revealed that it is looking to create large-scale titles similar to the roguelike PS5-exclusive, although it hasn’t ruled out the possibility of producing 2D arcade-style titles again at some point.
Speaking with GameReactor, Mikael Haveri, Housemarque’s marketing director, commented:
We’ve been working on two projects previously, and now with Returnal we have of course only one project. It’s hard to say if we will continue with one or two projects in the future, but the idea of us now being able to establish ourselves with Returnal will be defining the future type of titles we want to make.
The idea is that we now want to show we’re not just a ‘Resogun-studio.’ We can do all kinds of things, and from our studio’s perspective that means that we want to go for these bigger types of experiences.
Now, we still love arcade. We still love smaller games as well. Who knows? Maybe 26 years in the future we’ll do more of that as well. But that really depends on how successful we are able to build ourselves with the types of experiences that Returnal now is representing.
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Returnal was released for the PS5 on April 30, 2021 and you can read what we thought of the game here.