It’s hard to believe that it’s only been a month since the lot of you have poured a staggering 6.63 million hours into Housemarque’s Saros. How do we know? Well, the developer just tweeted some interesting numbers of the rogue-lite bullet hell shooter after it’s been available for nearly a month on PS5.
It looks like Carcosa has managed to remain as challenging as it has been entertaining, with 13.13 million recorded player deaths versus 3.08 million boss deaths showing that the meanest ones in Arjun’s quest pack quite a punch. Of course, the grunts that stand between you and those terrors aren’t as fortunate, with 863 million of them felled for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Smart Rifle seems to have been a part of a lot of those victories, as it’s declared the most popular weapon in the game.
The numbers are huge, but we’re only mildly surprised as Saros has been quite an entertainer, building on its predecessor in all the right ways to let it score very high in our review. The fact that it’s meant to be more approachable than Returnal without sacrificing the challenge probably has something to do with its numbers, too.
