Returnal, The PlayStation 5 Exclusive, Has Been Delayed Until April

The PlaySta­tion 5 exclu­sive, Retur­nal, has been delayed from its pre­vi­ous March release date. It’s only a slight delay, since it is now set to launch on April 30th.

Sony announced the delay on Twit­ter, say­ing House­mar­que (the devel­op­ers) required more time to pol­ish the game fur­ther before its launch.

“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,” the post reads. “See you in April!”

Retur­nal won’t be com­ing to PS4, since the game makes use of the PS5’s exclu­sive fea­tures. The SSD in the new con­sole is said to remove almost all of the load­ing time when respawn­ing. Since Retur­nal is a rogue-lite game, the repeat­ed runs will become less frus­trat­ing because of load times. The DualSense con­troller also has its own role, allow­ing House­mar­que to design game­play fea­tures around the hap­tic triggers.