Saros Developer Housemarque Wants to Have the Same Growth as FromSoftware

Saros developer Housemarque is hoping to have the same trajectory as Elden Ring creator FromSoftware.

In a new interview with The Game Business, the team behind Saros spoke about their ambitions for the future. They’re aware that Saros hasn’t met the same commercial success as other first-party PlayStation games, but believe that their games find an audience over time rather than all at once at launch.

With that said, Housemarque is aware that it operates in its own niche, but has seen how that has worked for a studio like FromSoftware. Founded in 1986 and initially focussed business software, FromSoftware released its first action RPG, King’s Field, back in 1994 on the original PlayStation. After two more King’s Field games, the studio established the long-running mecha series Armored Core and developed a variety of other action RPGs throughout the late ’90s and 2000s. However, it was 2009’s Demon’s Souls and the subsequent Dark Souls trilogy that would prove to be the studio’s true breakout hits, setting the stage for the even more successful Bloodborne and Elden Ring. It was a slow rise to prominence, and one that meant FromSoftware didn’t become a household name among gamers until decades after the studio was established.