I'm still obsessed with one of the PS5's best-kept secrets: Returnal is a twitchy roguelike shooter in a sci-fi nightmare that won't get out of my head

Selene stands in front of lots of cracked space suit helmets much like her own in the key art for Returnal, with the PS5 5 year anniversary tag on the left.

Imagine if John Wick was in a gunfight with a furious fireworks display that hated him, and you're one bizarre step closer to understanding the brilliance of Returnal. Housemarque's third person shooter is a neon nightmare, an air-dashing, constantly exploding, bullet-hell blast. A love letter to roguelikes, grimdark sci-fi, and going a little over the top with the particle effects. It's also easily my favorite shooter on PS5. (Sorry, Concord!)

Returnal stars Selene, an unlucky astronaut who crashes on a planet that could only be more hostile if it was made of bombs. With her ship in ruins, Selene starts exploring and soon stumbles upon the corpse of an astronaut. But wait a second… that's her corpse?! It's only missing the Twilight Zone musical stinger.