Saros

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Client

Sony

Year

2025

Role

+ Strategic Audit & Audience Definition
+ Insight & Campaign Platform Development
+ Messaging Framework & Launch Narrative

Brief

Drive broader commercial appeal for Saros on PS5 by expanding beyond the core roguelike audience.

Insight

For many console players, “roguelike” is an immediate no. Permadeath signals punishment. Repetition signals grind. Yet in Saros, death and rebirth are not abstract systems. They mirror the protagonist’s arc. Mechanic and narrative are the same journey, each return deepening the character and the player’s mastery. Most modern games occupy players. Few alter them.

Solution

“Come Back Stronger.” A platform designed to sell transformation. Rather than softening the roguelike mechanics, we recontextualised them. Each return was framed as mastery earned, preserving credibility with genre purists while opening the door to a wider PS5 audience. In doing so, the conversation shifted from “Is this too punishing?” to “Who will I become by the end of this?” Rolled out as a 360° launch campaign in partnership with Sony and developer Housemarque.

Saros

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