Housemarque's audition before the Sony acquisition is back after a year with some free DLC, titled Returnal: Ascension.
Returnal was one of the most underrated games of 2021, failing to capture a much larger audience due to its unforgiving difficulty that belied a gripping narrative that took multiple playthroughs and a thorough analysis to wrap your head around. The game revolved around the space pilot, Selene, a woman who finds herself trapped inside a time loop as she fights against monstrous creatures from a foreign planet.
For nearly a year, Returnal was a single-player experience, with the handful of fans hoping that Housemarque would release post-launch story content that would explore Selene's cyclical nightmare even further. Unfortunately, it appears that the story has all wrapped up and fans are free to make of it what they will. But, Returnal is getting free DLC that adds a new co-op mode as well as a single-player only survival mode, Tower of Sisyphus.