Saints Row 5: 10 Things We Need To See

10. A Story Reset

The good ending of Saint’s Row IV sees the Saints use a time machine, with the implication being that the invasion of the Zin empire will be defeated and the entire story reset.

The bad ending, which happens if you don’t complete all the loyalty missions, sees the Saints abandon Earth to find a new home planet to rebuild their civilisation.

Saint’s Row isn’t a franchise which particularly cares about canon too much, but it’s safe to assume the good ending is the true ending. With that in mind, Saint’s Row V could (and probably should) do away with all of the Zinyak stuff and just start completely fresh.

Time travel lets them do what they want to an extent, and a period piece might be crazy enough to work. Either way, after so long between IV and V plus detours in Gat Out Of Hell and pseudo spin off Agents Of Mayhem, there’s been a lot happen in the meantime. A fresh start seems like the cleanest idea.

Some later entires explore exactly what this reset could entail, but the basic blueprint is baked into Saint’s Row IV’s ending, and it’s not a franchise you could ever accuse of being narratively dull either.