This means you do not have to go through the first and second biome when you die in the third. Rather than having to complete the first biome from scratch, you can use the shortcut, once you find it in the randomly generated level. When this happens, you will receive an item that will grant you access to a shortcut. Once you kill the boss, you will gain access to the next biome. Each one will have a boss fight at the end of it. Returnal is split up into biomes or areas. So how hard is it to get to the end of Returnal? Even with a warning like this, the obvious objective for a roguelike is to finish the game. Much like games in the soul’s genre or many other roguelike games, it is designed to be difficult and the developers intend on you dying often.

The short answer to this is going to be yes, Returnal is a rather difficult game. I am aware that a lot of the aspects of the game’s difficulty are core to the roguelike genre, they are part of what makes this game hard and are worth mentioning to people who are new to this. Note: I have written this guide to explain the difficulty of the game to people who have never played a roguelike game before. I will do my best to keep this as objective as possible to highlight the level of difficulty in relation to other games and not just say how hard I found it. The latest PS5 game Returnal already has a reputation for being rather challenging but just how hard is Returnal? Everyone has genres they are good at and this will greatly influence the answer to whether the difficulty is too high. Someone who kicks ass in racing games might suck playing Call of Duty and someone great at roguelikes might suck at racing games. Determining whether a game is hard can be a rather subjective question.

Returnal bosses