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Return
Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure. Shoot, slash, and roll your way through dangerous enemies and ancient bosses, purchase items and unlock powerful weapons, and explore your unfamiliar home for parts to repair your ship.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27.
“I had fun, spent some time on it and enjoyed every moment of it. Some "what the hell is that thing", which is very much my style”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Saying this game has a good artstyle and great atmosphere in both feel and music definitely isn't enough. Most of the boss fights are fun and interesting; the game sprinkles some lore for every enemy and location resulting in a convincing world building; the way upgrades and…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“Decent Game, liked the artstyle and gameplay. Worth it”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2024-05 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-27.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-28. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-09-28). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Nintendo Switch Release Date
The long-awaited announcement... 🎉Return will be launching on Nintendo Switch on May 17th!! Wishlist Return On Switch North America - May 17th Europe - May 17th Japan- May 30th 🙏Very excited for you g
Return Hotfix 1.2.1
Hey everyone! Quick fix for yesterday's new content update. Fixed a bug certain weapon sounds were corrupted and would cause a crash Fixed Chinese translation errors
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-27.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Stylized · Atmospheric · Dystopian · Pixel Graphics · Difficult · Soundtrack · Adventure · RPG · Story Rich · Exploration · 2D · Side Scroller (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · DualShock Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, French |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 23 |
| Official site | https://www.returnthegame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2.0 GHz Memory: 3 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce 9800GTX+ (1GB) DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 3 GB available space Additional Notes: 1080p, 16:9 recommended