False PS5 Saros claims spread online; here’s the truth

AI-generated images and a now-deleted X post claimed the PS5 exclusive Saros depicts Nitya leaving her husband for a woman. The images showed two female characters together and the post, from an X account named Pirat_Nation, asserted a storyline in which Nitya abandons her husband. The images and the post have been removed, but the content circulated online. The characters pictured in the AI images do not appear together in the playable game.

Saros centers on Arjun, who spends the campaign searching for his wife Nitya after she joins Soltari’s first mission to the planet Carcosa, called Echelon I. Players learn about Arjun’s past through audio, text and holo logs that depict a troubled marriage. The logs portray Arjun as manipulative and an alcoholic and include implications that he cheated and was involved in a friend’s death. The game shows that Nitya leaves and takes the Carcosa mission.

On Carcosa, the Echelon I crew experiences a persistent eclipse and altered time patterns that affect members over centuries. Those conditions lead to changes in several crew members and create the long span in which relationships shift. During that period Nitya develops a romantic relationship with Kiira, another Echelon I member. Kiira is not the same character shown in the circulated AI images, and the two characters pictured never meet in the game’s playable segments.

Saros offers multiple endings. In one outcome Arjun defeats the King, becomes the King and is later shown taking Nitya’s hand. In an alternate ending Arjun defeats but spares the King and later meets Nitya on a beach. Both endings are presented in the game and revealed through in-game logs and encounters.

The spread of AI-generated imagery and the brief social post led to early confusion about Saros’s narrative and prompted players to check the game’s logs and endings for confirmation. Developers and players who have finished Saros point to the game’s own audio, text and holo logs and its endings as the accurate source for character relationships.