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  1. Sep 25, 2021
    7
    Solid game but certainly not the 10/10 all the critics claimed it to be. Would totally recommend.
  2. Sep 30, 2021
    7
    Not very high quality, but original for one time games.
    Expected better graphics and variety from the 2021 game.
  3. Dec 30, 2022
    7
    Decent game. The story is so --so, scoring is great, visual is decent, and the voice is also great
  4. Nov 5, 2022
    7
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  5. Jul 4, 2023
    7
    The first quarter of the game really invests you with its mystery and world-building, as well as the meshing of first person shooter and rouge-like elements. Unfortunately, the potential falls flat on it's face after it's discovered very early on you can save weapons and skills from being reset for relatively little cost, and the puzzle of assassinating all targets within a single dayThe first quarter of the game really invests you with its mystery and world-building, as well as the meshing of first person shooter and rouge-like elements. Unfortunately, the potential falls flat on it's face after it's discovered very early on you can save weapons and skills from being reset for relatively little cost, and the puzzle of assassinating all targets within a single day becomes embarrassingly easy to solve. Stealth quickly proves itself to be useless and at that point, most of the levels turn into shooting galleries. The ending answers perhaps one or two of the biggest questions the player will have at the end, but most questions regarding anything regarding the timeloop are forgotten during an ending that lacks any sort of satisfying resolution. A charismatic lead, the world design, and a slightly interesting twist keep this game above mediocre long enough to make me disappointed the rest of the game couldn't live up to it's potential. Expand
  6. Oct 8, 2022
    7
    I did enjoy the game. It’s very different of what I usually play. It didn’t bother me that I was basically running around the same places, but it’s true that the game has a lot of bugs. I don’t recommend it buy it full price, or if you have the Xbox game pass you can download it.
  7. Jan 18, 2022
    6
    No performance issues on RTX2080TI/Intel i9 running 4k, so that's great.

    That said, the game was let down for me, I find it repetitive, and although the story supposed to be captivating, it is not. The gameplay borrows aplenty from the incredible Dishonored series but somehow does it all wrong. Add to that the fact that the protagonist is pretty unlikable, and you find yourself pretty
    No performance issues on RTX2080TI/Intel i9 running 4k, so that's great.

    That said, the game was let down for me, I find it repetitive, and although the story supposed to be captivating, it is not. The gameplay borrows aplenty from the incredible Dishonored series but somehow does it all wrong. Add to that the fact that the protagonist is pretty unlikable, and you find yourself pretty bored...pretty quickly.

    Too bad, I had so many expectations for this game. Perhaps wait for that sub $20 sale to get it...
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  8. Sep 15, 2021
    6
    I didnt have any performance issues like everyone else is talking about, game ran perfectly most of the time minus a few frame drops here and there. My pc isnt the most advanced in the world so i was fully expecting performance issues and i was pleasantly surprised at the relative lack of them.

    The game itself isnt that great. It looked a lot like Dishonored in the trailers and Im a
    I didnt have any performance issues like everyone else is talking about, game ran perfectly most of the time minus a few frame drops here and there. My pc isnt the most advanced in the world so i was fully expecting performance issues and i was pleasantly surprised at the relative lack of them.

    The game itself isnt that great. It looked a lot like Dishonored in the trailers and Im a huge Dishonored fan so i was super excited. The first Dishonored is 100% my favorite game, but im not so enthusiastic about the second one. Deathloop borrows a lot from the second one. The story has an interesting premise with really underwhelming execution. Extremely anticlimactic. Gameplay is fun at first but gets very repetitive very quickly. The marketing made it seem like this would be an experimental, open-ended game with tons of replay value where you can complete the main goal using different methods or routes in every playthrough. That is not the case at all. I completed every major goal in the singleplayer in around 15 hours. Its like they finished half of the game and decided it was done and ready to ship for $60. Everything is super confusing at first, I had no clue what the **** was going on for the first 2~ hours. The dialogue is really annoying and cringeworthy in some cases, even more so than Dishonored 2. Sometimes i wish Colt would just shut up. The UI is really clunky and confusing, the whole infusion system is poorly explained, man, theres just a lot of negative stuff i can say about this game. Its not the worst game ive ever played, but it does hurt to see Arkane put out such a half-assed product. Wont be playing through this one again.
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  9. Sep 24, 2022
    6
    Prey is one of my favorite games of the last decade so I went into Deathloop with high expectations. What a disappointment it has been! I did not like the dialogue nor the main characters, the targets were not interesting either and the levels bland. The worst part of it all was the handholding! Why don't you let me discover clues myself and piece it together? Quest markers were annoyingPrey is one of my favorite games of the last decade so I went into Deathloop with high expectations. What a disappointment it has been! I did not like the dialogue nor the main characters, the targets were not interesting either and the levels bland. The worst part of it all was the handholding! Why don't you let me discover clues myself and piece it together? Quest markers were annoying and I found myself rushing through the levels just to get it over with. The brain dead AI that forgets you after a few minutes even after slaughtering half the map did not help either.

    I was overpowered after three runs already and had gear that did not need to be changed. Overall I was a bit shocked Arkane released such a mediocre, forgettable game.
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  10. Dec 18, 2022
    6
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  11. Oct 11, 2021
    6
    Pros:
    + interesting world-building
    + fun powers
    + great dialogues
    + charismatic characters

    Cons:
    - confusing game loop
    - horrible tutorials
    - too many menus/mechanics
    - not fun
  12. Dec 16, 2021
    6
    I love the concept of timeloop mechanics in a game and Deathloop more or less nails it for me. Has a lot of the gameplay DNA from the Dishonored series which makes me really nostalgic for it. Story is a bit short and you can figure it all out somewhat quickly and reach the endgame, which can be disappointing. Most mysteries and puzzles in the game are also not very rewarding when youI love the concept of timeloop mechanics in a game and Deathloop more or less nails it for me. Has a lot of the gameplay DNA from the Dishonored series which makes me really nostalgic for it. Story is a bit short and you can figure it all out somewhat quickly and reach the endgame, which can be disappointing. Most mysteries and puzzles in the game are also not very rewarding when you painstakingly solve them. Every time I was like "that's it?" For example, there is a locked room in Updaam for which 3 different codes are needed to unlock it. Finding these codes require a ton of exploring and reading between the lines. But when you do find them and unlock the door, no spoilers, it's underwhelming to the point of infuriating.

    There isn't too much variety in the guns and powers but there is a good enough balance. Enemy AI is a joke and can be cheesed with child's play.

    The multiplayer side of it is simply awful. "Griefing as a feature" would be the best way to describe it. It might be fun if you are the one playing as Juliana because you don't get to loose much if you lose. Plus you experience being a psycho and draw pleasure from ruining someone's game, which can be fun I guess. But playing as Colt while being invaded by real players is anything but fun. Nobody wants to have their game ruined especially when it is a careful stealth run and your Colt is near lower to mid levels and the Juliana invading you is armed to the teeth. At higher Colt levels it is boring at best to get invaded because any reward you get from Juliana's corpse is most what you already have and don't need, and infuriating at worst because, again, your game is ruined if you die. There is no fair level matching in invasions. I mostly keep it in the Single-Player mode and play as Colt in relative peace since the AI Juliana is as dumb as a sack of onions.

    It launched in an unfortunate buggy state on PC and kept crashing a lot. Performance and frame rate was also not stellar even on a super high end PC. But subsequent updates and patches have improved the game a lot. As of this writing though, it still keeps crashing for me at the beginning of Updaam in the afternoon before I even get to exit the tunnels. Can't play Charlie Montague's time period at all now. Thanks a lot, Arkane!
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  13. Sep 30, 2022
    6
    Besides the clunky performance, the world really lacks charm.
    The whole idea of the game is nice but Arkane doesn't take it far enough- which makes Deathloop a decent but boring shooter.
  14. Nov 26, 2021
    6
    Gameplaywise it's like Dishonored, but much less fun. Story is not as interesting as people are saying. It's a very average game, and I was really surprised it's the biggest contendant at the Game Awards this year.
  15. Apr 4, 2022
    6
    Interesting voice acting, great world build up.
    I'm not a fan of rougelite. At least this variation from Arcane is not my cup of tea, the studio should stick to its root for a more linear style of stealth game. However nice try. Over marketing killed it for me.
  16. Feb 27, 2023
    6
    Story and Gameplay are phenomenal but it just feel like the same garbage that is aimed at 12 year olds. By that I mean its very repetitive and it has a ton of unnecessary swearing in it that could have easily been taken out. But overall a good game but would only recommend buying if its on sale.
  17. Nov 3, 2022
    5
    Man this was hard to like. Right at the start you're just assumed to both have no memory, but also a *nEeD tO kIlL*. Sure it's a sandbox, but since you can really only stealth or murder hobo, it's just not something that works on any level right at the start. I'm not interested in murdering nor being murdered. The entire game is setup to trick you into thinking you have freedom, only toMan this was hard to like. Right at the start you're just assumed to both have no memory, but also a *nEeD tO kIlL*. Sure it's a sandbox, but since you can really only stealth or murder hobo, it's just not something that works on any level right at the start. I'm not interested in murdering nor being murdered. The entire game is setup to trick you into thinking you have freedom, only to find that the game amounts to running on the rim of a funnel. you're free to run around that ring all you want, but if you want to go anywhere, it'll be right down the shoot of the funnel.

    Also, the UI is *baffling* on PC. Why game makers won't make mouse and keyboard specced UI and a gamepad specced UI for the consoles eludes me. The result was a mess of a presentation on PC, and no chance at a recommendation.

    Combat AI is laughably bad and amounts to 'run straight at the player screaming'.
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  18. Sep 20, 2021
    5
    What you would expect from Arkane. The story is neat, the writing is littered with profanity (and people seem to eat it up), but overall the concept is solid even though the finale lets you tie it together with no repercussions and do both endings regardless back to back if you want. The game is ugly, just like Dishonored, and in fact looks nearly identical despite being 9 years later, andWhat you would expect from Arkane. The story is neat, the writing is littered with profanity (and people seem to eat it up), but overall the concept is solid even though the finale lets you tie it together with no repercussions and do both endings regardless back to back if you want. The game is ugly, just like Dishonored, and in fact looks nearly identical despite being 9 years later, and the AI is practically non-existent - almost as if no one playtested it - which might explain why IGN gave it a 10: They actually could finish a game for once without having to put it on Story Mode. There are no difficulty options, so you get what you get. I'm not even sure why they bothered putting guns and mods in this game when you can simply kick the daylights out of people or waltz up to them without them noticing. If there wasn't a decent premise and a studio with money behind this, honestly, this game would not be worth anyone's time. Expand
  19. Jul 23, 2022
    5
    A mediocre game, but absolutely the worst Arkane Studios game hands down. Also you can't turn off the mouse acceleration. >:|
  20. Sep 20, 2021
    5
    Deathloop is a great game. Or is it? The reviews would suggest it's one of the best games of the last few months but I'm finding precious little to recommend in this game beyond it's mechanical competence and great writing - and these do not elevate it sufficiently in my opinion. Arkane have stuck to the formula established with the Dishonored franchise - first person stealth/shooter withDeathloop is a great game. Or is it? The reviews would suggest it's one of the best games of the last few months but I'm finding precious little to recommend in this game beyond it's mechanical competence and great writing - and these do not elevate it sufficiently in my opinion. Arkane have stuck to the formula established with the Dishonored franchise - first person stealth/shooter with an onus on characterisation and story. Even the art style is preserved in essence. And you can't really blame them for that given the success of Dishonored but they seemed to have convinced themselves that by adding the contrived loop system to layer the story, they could then pull the handbrake on innovation. For all intents and purposes this is a third Dishonored title. The graphics look fine in their own stylised way but I wouldn't call them next gen. Some of the texture work looks pretty poor (see the sea). No DLSS and a game that seems to labour most PC systems. You could overlooko these things if the gameplay was really compelling but it really isn't. If you are playing on keyboard you will have a crap time with the shift dodge. The character movement generally doesn't feel very satisfying, The gunplay is mediocre - no real skill required. The worst thing about this game is the enemy AI which is basic and easily overcome. This added to the unnecessarily generous 3 lives you get make the whole thing vey staid. You never really feel like you are in peril. If you are outnumbered rush back to the threshold of the level segment and shoot from there. Why would I then care if I have a special version of this gun or another if they all get the job done? The characters are fun and the writing in general is refreshing and often funny but it's really not enough. I would avoid unless you really loved Dishonored and can't wait until Arkane start doing something interesting again. Expand
  21. Apr 14, 2022
    5
    An interesting approach in a Dishonored-like first person/stealth shooter with a unique time loop gameplay with in fact quite an enjoyable and fluid combat. Unfortunately, it can either be a hit or miss.

    In my opinion it was a miss due to the annoying amount of backtracking and grinding required while the player is given a poor sense of progression due to lack of inventory, skills,
    An interesting approach in a Dishonored-like first person/stealth shooter with a unique time loop gameplay with in fact quite an enjoyable and fluid combat. Unfortunately, it can either be a hit or miss.

    In my opinion it was a miss due to the annoying amount of backtracking and grinding required while the player is given a poor sense of progression due to lack of inventory, skills, equipment and level permanence. Deathloop is difficult to describe for someone that never played the game; it is not an open world game, a linear game or a sandbox game. It is a grindy rouge-like shooter where levels are revisited in order to gather more clues and progress the story while you avoid getting reset on the time loop as you grind a resource that you need to improve your character and keep your progression.

    Unique. But unique isn't always good. And the technical issues definitely did not help.
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  22. Nov 14, 2021
    5
    As someone who dislikes getting grief'ed by "infiltration" PVP, unfortunately it runs really bad on PC and desperately need optimization, so all in all it COULD be a good game provided it's running smoothly.

    I can't help but wonder if this game would have been better with it's 2013 "vision".
  23. Sep 15, 2021
    5
    I'm a big fan of Arkane's games in general, but this one doesn't do it for me at all. Leaving aside the well documented performance issues: the level design is poor by Arkane's standards, the combat feels recycled from other titles and is somewhat boring, the dialogue is cringeworthy and the game is absurdly easy all told. Really gutted about this one.
  24. Oct 3, 2022
    5
    I like the concept of this, I really do. But the state of the result is so **** it is unbelievable. Whole thing seems to be designed for 1v1 multiplayer with little story and some cheap ai and it has a huge **** flaw - the multiplayer itself. Most of the time multiplayer is not even playable, you wait for 5 minutes, connect to the host aaand you are stuck in rubber band hell because hostI like the concept of this, I really do. But the state of the result is so **** it is unbelievable. Whole thing seems to be designed for 1v1 multiplayer with little story and some cheap ai and it has a huge **** flaw - the multiplayer itself. Most of the time multiplayer is not even playable, you wait for 5 minutes, connect to the host aaand you are stuck in rubber band hell because host runs the game on potato. After switching on singleplayer, game was enjoyable, the content itself is great, but it¨s shame that year after the release.the game is still unbelievably buggy and multiplayer parts are just a mess.

    For the performance... everything was smooth and stable, until it wasn't :) I m not sure if there are some memory leaks or whatever, but while playing the game would gradually lose fps and after cca 2-3 hours it was able to get from 144 stable to unstable 75. That is dissapointing.
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  25. Dec 27, 2022
    5
    Update: 1 year after this game was released and shortly after the XBOX version is released and I'm still getting crashes on a regular basis. Guess what game industry, if your game crashes every 20 minutes you can't make it roguelike! This is at least the 3rd chance I've given this game. There's something to like about it, but there's too much frustration. You're out Deathloop!

    This game
    Update: 1 year after this game was released and shortly after the XBOX version is released and I'm still getting crashes on a regular basis. Guess what game industry, if your game crashes every 20 minutes you can't make it roguelike! This is at least the 3rd chance I've given this game. There's something to like about it, but there's too much frustration. You're out Deathloop!

    This game can be fun, but it can also be infuriating. Overall, it's an okay game, but maybe not worth the hassle of the punishing game mechanics. If you're into repeating the same thing over and over, this may be for you. I was over that style of video game in the Nintendo Entertainment System days.

    The story is mildly interesting. It's mostly told through found letters and voice recordings, though there's also some banter between the main character and the antagonist and some okay cut scenes here and there. It's a bit hard to follow though, since you're getting it piece by piece in a very non-linear way. That's okay to do (i.e. Memento, The Sexy Brutale, The Forgotten City), but it has to be done well and that's not really the case here.

    The combat is okay. It's a passable shooter. Feels a bit like Fallout New Vegas. Gunplay feels a somewhat jerky and your guns are fairly underpowered. Considering that when combat starts you almost always get mobbed, it can get frustrating. So far there's a pretty small variety of weapons, but they pad it out with weapon buffs.

    My main gripe with this game is the cheap deaths. You get mobbed, your weapons are weak, occasionally enemies have super powerful weapons and seem almost invincible. There's parts where the game just kills you outright and you need to find some items/info to avoid that happening. The problem is you then have to start the day over, losing potentially a considerable amount of progress.

    I'm a big fan of the timeloop mechanic in general, but it's done very poorly here. More often than not it's just a mechanism for punishing you and padding out the length of the game by making you repeat actions. I don't find that fun at all. And again, it's especially punishing here because you have to repeat everything you did the entire day and you lose any items you may have picked up along the way. Timeloops are supposed to be a vehicle for interesting storytelling, where you get a little more information each time the loop resets, not way to make the player do the same thing over and over again.

    I'm 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through and I'm on the verge of rage quitting this game. There's so many cheap deaths and this game has a heavy handed rougelike style save system which doubles the frustration when the game decides to kill you off. So far 20 hours in I've had almost as much frustration as I've had fun with this game.
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  26. May 16, 2023
    5
    Después de jugar la saga de Dishonored este juego se hace decepcionante. No me gusta el combate, se hace demasiado fácil. El juego me ha dejado a medias. Las repeticiones del bucle se hacen tan pesadas y tediosas que acabas deseando terminarlo lo antes posible sin enterarte realmente de lo que está pasando: entras, vas a hacer lo tuyo y sales corriendo.

    El final creo que es lo peor.
  27. Jun 11, 2023
    5
    Deathloop is appropriate name for game with such repetetive gameplay. Visiting 4 maps over and over again. Fighting juliana that is blocking tunnels every mission. It's not cool that player have very limited amount of weapons and abilities that he can carry. Lack of checkpoints, sponged enemies, **** weapons and poor shooting system doesn't make this game enjoyable for me. This game isDeathloop is appropriate name for game with such repetetive gameplay. Visiting 4 maps over and over again. Fighting juliana that is blocking tunnels every mission. It's not cool that player have very limited amount of weapons and abilities that he can carry. Lack of checkpoints, sponged enemies, **** weapons and poor shooting system doesn't make this game enjoyable for me. This game is like retarded cousin of dishonored. Expand
  28. Feb 15, 2022
    5
    The game might be great, but I will never know, as it is optimized by monkeys.
    I have a pretty decent config (Ryzen 7 3700X + 16GB RAM + 3060RTX) and it won't stop crashing, whatever graphic settings I try.
  29. Apr 9, 2022
    5
    Поиграл 2 часа. Графика красивая, лагов нет. Самого интересного - перестрелок в игре очень мало. На каждом шагу очень "ненавязчивые" намёки, как проходить игру. Стелс очень простой и скучный, враги тебя не видят впритык. Идти напролом, наоборот - слишком сложно. Игра заключается в перепрохождении маленький уровней. Игра так себе, ооочень на любителя.Поиграл 2 часа. Графика красивая, лагов нет. Самого интересного - перестрелок в игре очень мало. На каждом шагу очень "ненавязчивые" намёки, как проходить игру. Стелс очень простой и скучный, враги тебя не видят впритык. Идти напролом, наоборот - слишком сложно. Игра заключается в перепрохождении маленький уровней. Игра так себе, ооочень на любителя.
  30. Nov 3, 2022
    5
    Potentially a great game, but the developers just didn't know when to stop. There's just too much of everything. I can appreciate complex, multi-phased quests, but here it's just borderline ridiculous. So, say, you need to kill someone. In order to do that, you need to locate this person. In order to locate the person, you need to break into his/her working computer. In order to do thatPotentially a great game, but the developers just didn't know when to stop. There's just too much of everything. I can appreciate complex, multi-phased quests, but here it's just borderline ridiculous. So, say, you need to kill someone. In order to do that, you need to locate this person. In order to locate the person, you need to break into his/her working computer. In order to do that you need to locate this person's assistant. You know where he is and you go to his location. But upon arriving you realize he got a food poisoning and is actually in a completely different location, inaccessible at current time. So you have to exit and return to this location at a different time. You come back at the right time and at the right location, but then realize that he actually... I mean, I could go on forever. This is literally every quest in this game. I certainly appreciate the effort, but, god, not every quest needs like 50 levels of complexity. I don't know, maybe some accountant or a logistics expert could appreciate this kind of approach to video game design, but I certainly don't. Which is actually really sad because there's clearly a lot of thought and talent put into this game, it's just that the devs couldn't figure out the point where adding more stuff in was just too much. As a result, we got potentially very good, but ultimately contrived and convoluted mess of a game. Expand
  31. Aug 25, 2022
    5
    Deathloop is not even close to be the best Arkane game. Both first and second Dishonored and Prey were better games... It doesn't make Deathloop horribe game, but makes it just mediocre.

    Arkane can do better and i really hope and i truly believe they will.
  32. Jul 14, 2022
    4
    The problem with roguelite games is repetition. You need really good core gameplay to make a roguelite or roguelike work, otherwise it just ends up repetitive and boring the player. Without greater challenges to overcome and interesting enemies to fight, it can quickly become tedious – and reusing the same few areas over and over again can make this even worse.

    Thus, it is strange that
    The problem with roguelite games is repetition. You need really good core gameplay to make a roguelite or roguelike work, otherwise it just ends up repetitive and boring the player. Without greater challenges to overcome and interesting enemies to fight, it can quickly become tedious – and reusing the same few areas over and over again can make this even worse.

    Thus, it is strange that an AAA studio like Arkane fell into this trap.

    The core conceit of Deathloop is that you are trapped on an island in a time loop with a bunch of people who want to party for all eternity (the Eternalists). A few things quickly become clear:

    1) Only you and Juliana, your nemesis, remember things between loops.
    2) There are four areas or “levels” in the game, and you can visit up to four “levels” in a day, either repeating the same ones or going to different ones.
    3) After you’ve visited four places (or died three times), the loop resets.
    4) There are eight Visionaries, leaders amongst the Eternalists, who are the core of the loop. You must kill all eight of them in a single loop to win.
    5) None of the Visionaries will naturally hang out with each other, as a deliberate means of making it impossible to break the loop.

    Thus, the core of the game is to figure out how to manipulate the time loop in order to get the visionaries to leave the areas they hang out in normally and go to other areas, grouping up so that you can kill a number of them at once.

    Unfortunately, while this SOUNDS really cool, in real life, the game basically is bimodal – each Visionary has at most one way to manipulate them into doing this, and some don’t have any, so there is a very particular solution that you must follow to solve the game. The game pretty much leads you to this, though, so it isn’t overly hard to figure out – which also kind of robs the game of a feeling of agency.

    Indeed, the game is remarkably inflexible for being a game about a time loop where your goal is to manipulate the loop to your advantage – there are very few ways of doing so, and most of them aren’t particularly interesting or exciting. While it is cool to show up “prepared” to a few things, by and large it is pretty mediocre, and after the first couple loops the game runs out of tricks.

    Rather than being a puzzle, it’s just a kind of drawn-out fairly linear affair, where you can attack different questlines in whatever order, but eventually you’ll figure out what you’re doing.

    The fact that you can “save” equipment across runs after you complete the second major questline also means that you don’t really have to interact with 99% of the weapon drops in the game for loops after the first couple you go through, which further increases the repetition, especially once you figure out where certain key weapons are and farm them a bit so you can have them every level.

    The enemies in the game are all normal humans, with only the visionaries presenting any sort of challenge; even still, you will quickly become more dangerous than they are and be able to rather easily overwhelm them.

    That leaves Julianna, which, in normal gameplay, can be an enemy human player who invades your game and tries to kill you – a frustrating experience when you are trying to make progress, but at least a somewhat neat idea. Unfortunately, playing in this mode also doesn’t allow you to pause the game at all, which is really annoying, as even if there isn’t a Juliana around, you still can’t pause.

    If you turn off the multiplayer, she becomes an AI, and while more powerful than the Visionaries, she’s still not terribly difficult to overcome, removing the only real challenge the game has.

    The only thing Deathloop really has is style. Deathloop is set in faux-1960s, though it quickly becomes clear that this is some sort of alternate reality. It has some dialogue between Colt (the protagonist) and Juliana, and some floating text along with notes and tape recordings in the environment which help you piece together the story. But these mostly run out within a few loops, with only a trickle of story remaining afterwards, and because you can do things in whatever order, you can figure out many of the game’s secrets “early”, and none of them are particularly difficult to see coming.

    In the end, I was disappointed in this game. It was not up to the quality of Prey, it lacked variety in the challenges it threw at you, it was overly repetitive (and too long relative to the amount of content it had), the plot was okay at best, and the ending was a disappointing little cutscene.

    There are a lot of better games than this one; if you like the style and the core conceit, it might be okay, but it will never be great.
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  33. Sep 17, 2021
    4
    WAIT FOR SALE

    First off, I'm a big dishonored fan. I really like the gameplay, killing feels super satisfying and I like trying different ways to kill my targets. I understand the game isnt a narrative game in its core, neither a pvp game in its core, neither a rogue like.... but in the end of the game I was still expecting more stuff to be introduced, more maps, mechanics, new enemies,
    WAIT FOR SALE

    First off, I'm a big dishonored fan. I really like the gameplay, killing feels super satisfying and I like trying different ways to kill my targets.

    I understand the game isnt a narrative game in its core, neither a pvp game in its core, neither a rogue like.... but in the end of the game I was still expecting more stuff to be introduced, more maps, mechanics, new enemies, better PVP experience, better rogue like experience... I'm was trying to find when things were going to start getting more interesting, and it didnt. I finished the game and now theres simply nothing else to do and no reason at all to keep doing that pvp.

    I do understand the logic of, oh you paid for 15/20 hour entertainment, but I have all the rights to come here and advise people that it was 17 hours of waiting something to happen and it never did, there was not a fulfillment, not a closure.

    I did 2 endings so far, the first one is extremely shallow, like oh its over, ok... time to move on... and the second is just a normal loop reset...

    this is definitely not a full priced game, it clearly uses mechanics from their older games, which would be 100% fine if they would add more to it, and if the game didnt feel more shallow than every single other game they put up. this is clearly a ""spin off series"" that should have a 20$ price tag.

    Just to be clear, I really liked the placement of the game, love the 60's vibe with all the technology, I loved the characters and the voice actors did a sublime work.

    I normally dont do any rants like this, but I just feel the cash grab rushed product feeling on this one, and they are still getting praised for doing a masterpiece product.
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  34. May 31, 2022
    4
    It starts good but with each loop starts to wear you off ... The "bad" guys have no weight, you only learn things from them reading or by audiologs. It needed more cutscenes in my opinion also interactions with juliana are not enough. But the worst of all is after you gather all the clues and learn from them you execute your plan just to have some awful endings that doesn't explain nothingIt starts good but with each loop starts to wear you off ... The "bad" guys have no weight, you only learn things from them reading or by audiologs. It needed more cutscenes in my opinion also interactions with juliana are not enough. But the worst of all is after you gather all the clues and learn from them you execute your plan just to have some awful endings that doesn't explain nothing or close characters arc at all. I loved dishonored series but Arkane f*ckd it up with this one.
    The a.i is terrible and it doesn't get better by moving forward in the game like some people says.
    The concept wasn't wrong but it could have some more levels, and enemy variety (its all the same 5 npc's) what i mean is just because its a loop based game that doen't mean that has to be so damn repetitive, theres more they could have done for example more levels, weapon modifications,more cutscenes, better powers and not the same from dishonored and the list go on.
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  35. Sep 17, 2021
    4
    The PC port is unplayable. Too many bugs and the graphic optimization is terrible. Wait for patches.
  36. Apr 30, 2022
    4
    It's the worst arkane game to date.
    With those clever level design and tricky story no mechanics is working as intended. Lack of anticheat is killing whole idea of invasions. Color grade destroyed by real drop chances which is high for epic weapons. And no such exploration you may see. You can pick-up every object in the map without reading and it will appear next session as floating
    It's the worst arkane game to date.
    With those clever level design and tricky story no mechanics is working as intended. Lack of anticheat is killing whole idea of invasions. Color grade destroyed by real drop chances which is high for epic weapons. And no such exploration you may see. You can pick-up every object in the map without reading and it will appear next session as floating bullet.
    Too easy to be interested in, too unfair to compete.
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  37. Sep 16, 2021
    4
    Good game - extremely poor optimization or Denuvo integration.
    When you have 100+ FPS on high-end rig, then suddenly 5-10 FPS for less then a second for no reason and then again 100+ FPS and this repeats 2-3 times per minute - that is not normal.
  38. Aug 5, 2022
    4
    I couldn't get past the tutorial section as the game kept soft-locking and forcing me to start over. Either I am very unlucky or this game is very buggy, or both.
  39. Sep 16, 2021
    4
    Another modern release with horrifyingly bad AI. The game is way too easy and lack all of the charm that Arkane usually delivers with multiple paths and options to clear a mission. Here, because it's so easy and the AI is so terrible, even if you find a "smart" way to do what you set out to do, you don't feel like you've accomplished anything. The levels are rather small, the gun varietyAnother modern release with horrifyingly bad AI. The game is way too easy and lack all of the charm that Arkane usually delivers with multiple paths and options to clear a mission. Here, because it's so easy and the AI is so terrible, even if you find a "smart" way to do what you set out to do, you don't feel like you've accomplished anything. The levels are rather small, the gun variety is not the interesting and the skills/abilities also lack in the wow factor. But worst of all is still the AI... god it's terrible.

    Then we have poor performance, Denuvo crap, stuttering, lag on multiplayer, ah it's just quite sad really. Should have been much much better. I don't see me putting any more time into this.
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  40. May 27, 2022
    4
    Игра безумно скучная. Халтура: создали четыре относительно небольшие карты, которые мы будем проходить раз по 10 каждую, если не больше. Скучный нудный геймплей, неинтересные персонажи, неоригинальная идея, так как уже есть с десяток фильмов про петлю времени, данная концепция подходит для небольшого инди-проекта на три часа, не больше. Единственный плюс - это стилистика и звук. ОднозначноИгра безумно скучная. Халтура: создали четыре относительно небольшие карты, которые мы будем проходить раз по 10 каждую, если не больше. Скучный нудный геймплей, неинтересные персонажи, неоригинальная идея, так как уже есть с десяток фильмов про петлю времени, данная концепция подходит для небольшого инди-проекта на три часа, не больше. Единственный плюс - это стилистика и звук. Однозначно худший проект от Arkane Studios, не рекомендую. Expand
  41. Apr 30, 2022
    4
    After playing the dishonored masterpiecies, this game is so disapointing, i can't believe it's crafted by the same studio. The ambience and the graphics are specially awful, my eyes bleed watching the chaotic mix of 60's pop style, old scottish village and landscape, and cyberpunk technology.
  42. Sep 25, 2021
    4
    Great begin. The interesting visual style, but ... They promised a very cool immersive sim, but in the end, it turned out to be a very linear parody of dishonored. The game is linear. There is very little variability. The finale of the game is disappointing. There are also a lot of bugs.

    You can wait for a 50-60% discount and take it, but buying it for the full price is stupidity.
  43. Sep 25, 2021
    4
    A quick summary for deathloop on PC
    Cons
    the recommended and minimum specs are overblown but not by too much the game has a horrible stuttering issue when moving the mouse, however playing on Dual shock 4 the stuttering vanishes entirely the gameplay tutorial clips show ps5 controller prompts instead of PC Prompts which shows a very careless port. the performance is absolutely
    A quick summary for deathloop on PC
    Cons
    the recommended and minimum specs are overblown but not by too much
    the game has a horrible stuttering issue when moving the mouse, however playing on Dual shock 4 the stuttering vanishes entirely
    the gameplay tutorial clips show ps5 controller prompts instead of PC Prompts which shows a very careless port.
    the performance is absolutely dreadful and the AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is REQUIRED TO GET A PLAYABLE EXPERIENCE!!

    Pros:
    The story and characters are great
    the game is incredibly detailed with small objects in the background being highly detailed
    Good game length and very inventive gameplay mechanic.

    Conclusion:
    Only buy If you don't have a PS5 (Like most of us don't) Or You have an RTX 3090 and plan for ultra graphics 60fps.

    The Game is good story, gameplay and length wise but too buggy and unoptimized for the time being

    if on steam i would only buy if it was on sale for 20 dollars or less and they fixed most of the issues present at the moment.

    Mr Maxwell.
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  44. Jun 4, 2022
    4
    Its a mess. A not well made mess. Messy mechanics, messy narrative and messy characters. Not recommended.
  45. Nov 18, 2021
    4
    It's poorly optimized and I found very little fun in playing it. It's an average rougelike game to me at best.
  46. Dec 30, 2021
    4
    Story is boring, optimization is still not great (even though graphics are Fortnite), repetitive gameplay. Only nice thing about this game is that it gives you the choice to do stealth. Other than that this game is the biggest disappointment of 2021 for me. I give it 4/10 because it inspired me to replay the whole Dishonored series and some mechanics are similar to the ones in Dishonored.Story is boring, optimization is still not great (even though graphics are Fortnite), repetitive gameplay. Only nice thing about this game is that it gives you the choice to do stealth. Other than that this game is the biggest disappointment of 2021 for me. I give it 4/10 because it inspired me to replay the whole Dishonored series and some mechanics are similar to the ones in Dishonored. At first I thought the game wants to evolve Dishonored style gameplay, but all it did was copy it and mix it with "funny" and quirky dialogues and characters and a very chiseled Hitman gameplay - think how you will kill person A so persons B don't kill you. I also appreciated this but again it is made poorly. Expand
  47. Jun 16, 2022
    4
    If you're going to make a game that restrincts users with uncapable hardware, AT LEAST meke it work correctly, i have a RTX 2070 and there's no reason on why i had to reset my drivers just for it to allow me to play the game.

    Also the game, ironically, is insanely repetitive, you do the same exact thing for every mission.
  48. Sep 21, 2022
    4
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    only worth 30 dollar
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    -unoptimized, stupid ai , very rebitive boring recycled from dishonored in a bad way and only 4 small maps.
    -play dishonored instead.
  49. Apr 20, 2022
    3
    За последнее время я давно не видел более уныло Г!! Disрhonored это был шедевр!! А это просто помойка!! Идея может и хорошая - но исполнение напрочь отсутствует!
  50. Sep 16, 2021
    3
    The optimization of this game is beyond bad. Even with a RTX 3080 and high-end PC it shutters like crazy. Quite unplayable.
    The game is also so, so easy that's quite insulting to be honest.
    Graphics are meh.
    Story concept is interesting.
  51. Sep 26, 2021
    3
    Broken&shallow

    - had micro stutters at game release, now after some patching it won't even start (Ryzen 5600X + RTX 3080 with latest drivers), note that no other games have this issues, many people suspect Denuvo... DO NOT BUY until they fix it/remove this crazy DRM and even then get it on sale because: - it's a step back from Dishonored games and Prey - stupid A.I. - not many
    Broken&shallow

    - had micro stutters at game release, now after some patching it won't even start (Ryzen 5600X + RTX 3080 with latest drivers), note that no other games have this issues, many people suspect Denuvo...
    DO NOT BUY until they fix it/remove this crazy DRM and even then get it on sale because:
    - it's a step back from Dishonored games and Prey
    - stupid A.I.
    - not many interactive assets in game
    - broken stealth
    - lots of bugs
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  52. Apr 27, 2023
    3
    I played it for 2 hours straight and was bored by it. I played stealthily and I noticed that AI is awful. They do not see you through the window of your apartment, not see you when you are loudly slashing their friends even when you just duck in plain sight 50 meters away but as soon as you stand up, they hear you even behind the wall. And when it comes to stand-off, they react veryI played it for 2 hours straight and was bored by it. I played stealthily and I noticed that AI is awful. They do not see you through the window of your apartment, not see you when you are loudly slashing their friends even when you just duck in plain sight 50 meters away but as soon as you stand up, they hear you even behind the wall. And when it comes to stand-off, they react very slowly, sometimes running in place and missing shots on me. Hacking their machines makes this game super easy. Furthermore, you can make them friendly and turn it against them which is just a terrible idea.


    The game is divided into 4-day stages and each is played in a different region, you always appear somewhere from underground. It is easy to run away, hide and you can die twice every loop. I thought to myself this game is very repetitive and I was curious whether it becomes more fun later on, I watched an IGN review, and they only praised the game and showed what I played already, they gave it 10 - masterpiece. Not reflecting the real quality. Objectively speaking the game has some terrible AI and interesting level design but is very demanding on mid-range gaming PCs. It has repetitive game-loops, useless character customization because it is first person, and the story is not really funny as it is trying to be not serious.


    Then I watched a different review from Classic game reviews and the guy mentioned the problems I have with the game giving it real objective review and IGN proves once again it breeds incompetent reviewers who are not talking about the game issues, moreover, say it is the best game.
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  53. Nov 20, 2021
    3
    Лично мне игра показалась нереально скучной, карта маленькая и некрасивая, графика хуже чем в дизонорде, как шутер игра плохая, потому что стрельба никакая и противники очень тупые, анимации убогие, все будто деревянное
    как стелс игра тоже ни о чем, ии на уровне игр 2000-х
    как рпг тоже хз, выглядит дико и не к месту сюжета просто считай нет, развязка наитупейшая концепт с временными
    Лично мне игра показалась нереально скучной, карта маленькая и некрасивая, графика хуже чем в дизонорде, как шутер игра плохая, потому что стрельба никакая и противники очень тупые, анимации убогие, все будто деревянное
    как стелс игра тоже ни о чем, ии на уровне игр 2000-х
    как рпг тоже хз, выглядит дико и не к месту
    сюжета просто считай нет, развязка наитупейшая
    концепт с временными петлями уже надоел и такое ощущение что из всех игр и фильмов что я знаю в дезлупе эта идея реализована наихудшим образом
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  54. Nov 25, 2021
    3
    This is by far the most disappointing project that Arkane had done. Most of the abilities, weapons and skills are literally just taken and recycled from their previous title '' Dishonored ''. The game actually takes a ton of things from Dishonored but does them way worse than they should be. The game play mechanic of ''Loops'' is not used to its full potential and by the middle of the gameThis is by far the most disappointing project that Arkane had done. Most of the abilities, weapons and skills are literally just taken and recycled from their previous title '' Dishonored ''. The game actually takes a ton of things from Dishonored but does them way worse than they should be. The game play mechanic of ''Loops'' is not used to its full potential and by the middle of the game it becomes a tedious chore of checklists. The Story was fine for the most part but nothing that interesting. All of your ''Targets'' are washed down characters with barely any background and story and look exactly like any other NPC which make them barely distinguishable from the other basic enemies. The optimization for the PC is one just awful and they still haven't fixed most of the basic issues that the game has. I would say avoid this game since it feels like they have barely tried to make a functional, entertaining and provoking game and failed miserably by giving up half-way through. Expand
  55. Sep 19, 2021
    3
    Deathloop gets 10 out of 10 from Gamespot, IGN and other popular titles. Our peach patriarch didn’t finish playing, but he always recommends it. And no one says anything about bugs - even on PS5 (on PC, people are already drowning the game in negative comments). The technical execution of the game is terrible, the problem with sudden slowdowns (thanks Denuvo) and lags in multiplayer wasDeathloop gets 10 out of 10 from Gamespot, IGN and other popular titles. Our peach patriarch didn’t finish playing, but he always recommends it. And no one says anything about bugs - even on PS5 (on PC, people are already drowning the game in negative comments). The technical execution of the game is terrible, the problem with sudden slowdowns (thanks Denuvo) and lags in multiplayer was revealed on the PC.

    And yes, the publications as one forget to tell about the sh^tty plot, bad graphics and style, a disappointing ending and the last "raid" with critical problems in game design. Game journalism becomes so obedient when he reviews PlayStation exclusives ... Why would that be?
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  56. Sep 16, 2021
    3
    Maybe the game is way better on consoles, but on the PC it is poorly optimized. Me and 3 of my friends who also bought it got the same poor performance with different configurations. Initially I did like the loop. The island, even if small, is well put together and with the different day periods, you have a "false" sense of dynamism. The gun sounds are great, but the characters are waaaaayMaybe the game is way better on consoles, but on the PC it is poorly optimized. Me and 3 of my friends who also bought it got the same poor performance with different configurations. Initially I did like the loop. The island, even if small, is well put together and with the different day periods, you have a "false" sense of dynamism. The gun sounds are great, but the characters are waaaaay to vocal on the Fks. Like waaaay. The AI is dumb and this affects the difficulty greatly. After two days and once you get a decent gun, there is no need to go stealth anymore.
    I stopped playing after 15h because I got bored out of my mind. During those 15 hours, PVP was on and not once got my game invaded. I also tried to enter someone else's game without succes.

    With all this, how come this game gets a 10/10 by so many "professional" reviewers is beyond me.
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  57. Dec 21, 2021
    3
    the game looks exactly the same as dishonored 2 gameplay environment abilities exept that you use guns that makes it a lot easier to kill enemies and the Ai of these enemies is so dump so instead of playing stealthy like dishonored you just show your self and kill them from one place you never runs out of bullets never run out of blood because there's a plenty of it everywhere the onlythe game looks exactly the same as dishonored 2 gameplay environment abilities exept that you use guns that makes it a lot easier to kill enemies and the Ai of these enemies is so dump so instead of playing stealthy like dishonored you just show your self and kill them from one place you never runs out of bullets never run out of blood because there's a plenty of it everywhere the only thing I liked is the soundtrack Expand
  58. Jul 1, 2023
    3
    Jogo estremamente pesado exige um PC de pelo menos 5 mil reais para ser jogado ainda bem que ele chegou no geforce Now para ser possível jogado em PC ruins em estão de gameplay tá boa melhor que dishonored e história é confusa no começo mais que você vai jogando vai ficando melhor diferente dos jogos da ubisoft que começa bem e depois piora
  59. Dec 6, 2021
    3
    big fan of Dishonored and Prey, deathloop doesnt catch the interesting point where i should stay playing the game, the character is good but story is lacking

    gameplay mechanic - mediocre
    story - mediocre
    art design - good
    level design - good
    graphic - mediocre
    optimization - bad
  60. Jan 10, 2022
    3
    I know why have reviewers/youtubers chosen this game as one of the best games in 2021. Because there was no good releases in this year so they had to choose this.
    My opinion :
    - **** gameplay mechanics (Super complicated and if you die, you can't respawn in your last checkpoint and it's possible to lose all of your gained Residuum and if you die thrice, you gotta play the mission over.
    I know why have reviewers/youtubers chosen this game as one of the best games in 2021. Because there was no good releases in this year so they had to choose this.
    My opinion :
    - **** gameplay mechanics (Super complicated and if you die, you can't respawn in your last checkpoint and it's possible to lose all of your gained Residuum and if you die thrice, you gotta play the mission over. Your health doesn't regenerate automatically so you'd die easily if you're not agile enough. (No difficulty option). ALL of your finds and loots, including trinkets and abilities, except double jump, will be dispossessed on every next mission (on a new day). Worth mentioning that the double jump mechanic doesn't work like other games and it doesn't propel you and it's like being held by an obstruction or gravity)
    - Mediocre story
    - Mediocre graphics but bad optimization
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  61. Feb 5, 2022
    3
    And you thought EA Games were critical bribefests. All this game is, is....just...there...
  62. May 26, 2022
    3
    Не ожидал такой подставы от пацанов которые замутили дизоноред ах да эти же пацаны замутили и вторую часть хррр тьфу
  63. May 27, 2022
    3
    Логающий кусок кала, спасибо конечно за озвучку, но игра скучная и почти не играбельна
  64. Sep 24, 2022
    3
    I love the visual style, concept and even gunplay is not that bad. But optimization is just a hell. I mean I would be OK with such optimization on release date, BUT NOT after a year after release. Try it ONLY if you have a Xbox (& PC) GamePass and you are not getting annoyed with random stutters at ANY video quality/settings/resolution...
  65. Feb 4, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product. Expand
  66. May 19, 2022
    2
    Huge step back comparing to Dishonored and Prey games. I could not believe such boring and average game could be developed by Arkane.
  67. Sep 16, 2021
    2
    Bad console port as per Arkane Studios standard. Bland story and gameplay. Not worth any time or money.
  68. Apr 23, 2023
    2
    man Im usually guilty of sunken cost fallacy and have to finish anything I start, not this game, it's so goddamn boring I uninstalled it at 80% of completion of main story.
    the entire game is:
    4 maps about the size of a PS4 COD multiplayer map you mandatorily progress only and exclusively by reading notes or emails, everytime you get a new one you have to repeat the gameloop until the
    man Im usually guilty of sunken cost fallacy and have to finish anything I start, not this game, it's so goddamn boring I uninstalled it at 80% of completion of main story.
    the entire game is:
    4 maps about the size of a PS4 COD multiplayer map
    you mandatorily progress only and exclusively by reading notes or emails, everytime you get a new one you have to repeat the gameloop until the same point, but this time for the next clue.
    keeps like that until the end
    Im not kidding you, it is THAT boring, will just watch the finale on youtube or something.
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  69. Sep 19, 2021
    2
    Boring and a step back from Dishonoured. Main characters are meh and Optimization is also kind of bad even running on a high-end system
  70. Sep 16, 2021
    2
    Performance issues galore, especially in PVP mode. Rubberbanding and stutters make PVP impossible. Plus, what the hell were they thinking for PVP mode anyhow? You start basically with nothing and go up against players that are fully kitted out. In order to level Julianna, you have to meat grind to get stuff. Its stupidly unbalanced. Gameplay is ok. Guns shot fine. Story is finePerformance issues galore, especially in PVP mode. Rubberbanding and stutters make PVP impossible. Plus, what the hell were they thinking for PVP mode anyhow? You start basically with nothing and go up against players that are fully kitted out. In order to level Julianna, you have to meat grind to get stuff. Its stupidly unbalanced. Gameplay is ok. Guns shot fine. Story is fine too. But the maps are easy to learn and the AI is beyond dumb. In PVE mode, Julianna is so predictable, I have yet to be killed by her. Boss fights are basically just bullet sponge-y mobs. Refunded. There are better FPS out there. Expand
  71. Nov 15, 2022
    2
    Cidden, nasıl bu kadar kötü bir oyun olabilir ya. Farklı bir şey denedik diyip, aynı bölümleri size zorla oynatıp duruyor.
  72. Sep 17, 2021
    2
    Visiškai neįdomus ir ne įtraukiantis žaidimas. Pasaulis negyvas. Priešai mediniai su nulių intelekto.
  73. Sep 22, 2021
    2
    Pretty below average game, the AI is not good at all and it just wasn't a challenge for me
  74. Jan 5, 2022
    2
    Mal optimizado. Con mi rtx 3090 tiene un tartamudeo que rompe la experiencia por completo.

    No entiendo los 10 que se le pone a este juego.

    Historia repetitiva en la que reciclan los mismos escenarios constantemente hasta llegar al cansancio. Lo único que se salva es la ambientación que si mola.



    Juego tedioso, mal optimizado y Aburrido.
  75. Sep 10, 2022
    2
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  76. Sep 16, 2021
    2
    In it's core, this is a really interesting game with gameplay "loop"(pun intended) which really gets it right for those who are into roguelite titles. Decent stylized graphics, cool weapons, some nice perks/"spells" and don't get me wrong, also a somewhat interesting storyline - it's all there.

    That said, it's such a shame that all of this is hidden behind garbage of a port (for pc
    In it's core, this is a really interesting game with gameplay "loop"(pun intended) which really gets it right for those who are into roguelite titles. Decent stylized graphics, cool weapons, some nice perks/"spells" and don't get me wrong, also a somewhat interesting storyline - it's all there.

    That said, it's such a shame that all of this is hidden behind garbage of a port (for pc players out there) - I struggle to give the game any better mark (and trust me it could be a solid 7-8) if the game was not crashing almost every 25minutes for me. Due to the sort of non-existent saving system(which is fine gameplay-wise in this case, due to the concept) these crashes result to a really unplayable game and hard-to-enjoy experience. Such a shame tho. Maybe next time Arcane.
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  77. Jan 23, 2022
    2
    In interesting gaming idea, executed (get it!) very well. However this results in a game that grates against the play and prevents enjoyment. Would recommend this game to grinders and masochists.
  78. Dec 21, 2022
    2
    It's bland and repetitive, the latter being a design choice. I did not like the art style either - looks like Arkane's other game Prey. It plays very much like Dishonored (another Arkane title). If you like the titles I mentioned you might enjoy Deathloop as it just blends all that together and adds rogue-like elements.
    The gunplay is underwhelming. Overall another unimpressive Arkane title.
  79. Dec 31, 2022
    2
    Unfortunately, I didn't really like the game.
    In the beginning, I didn't really know how everything worked, and I didn't know until halfway through the game.
    The graphics were good, but I often had glaring FPS fluctuations.
    The story I found really boring and not captivating.
    The gameplay is cool but poorly implemented, as it's really annoying to get back to the same environment every time.
  80. Jun 5, 2023
    2
    This game is a confusing mess. There are only a few levels in the whole game, the point of the game is to play the same 4-5 maps (I played it a few months ago and forget the exact number) with not particularly hard NPCs over and over and over again until you can clear the whole map. It's basically like doing 100% achievements in an open world RPG, except it's not RPG and you get only 5This game is a confusing mess. There are only a few levels in the whole game, the point of the game is to play the same 4-5 maps (I played it a few months ago and forget the exact number) with not particularly hard NPCs over and over and over again until you can clear the whole map. It's basically like doing 100% achievements in an open world RPG, except it's not RPG and you get only 5 small maps. I played it for about 6-8 hours, when I found out that's the whole purpose of the game, I shut it off and never looked back. Who in the world can think this is engaging?

    On top of that, do you know what really compliments a boring slog with a few maps? The worst saving system in the history of gaming. You cannot save during a map, there are no autosaves, you have to spend 45-60 minutes, slogging through the same boring unengaging NPCs otherwise you lose progress. Oh, the game crashed? Tough luck mate, you lose 100% progress. Godawful.

    I'm not giving it a one because the concept of timeloop has minor appeal, the NPCs and the story make a little bit of sense but forcing me to play the game to get the story is a big no-no, I'd rather play 30-40 hours of minesweeper over this as it has more variety.
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  81. Sep 17, 2021
    1
    Boring gameplay from 2012. Poor graphics and sound. Zero screeplay and story.
    +1 point for Arcane Studio name, but this is the only pro vs. much more con.
  82. Oct 28, 2021
    1
    The first few hours are interesting, but the more time you spend with the game the more pretentious and ridiculous the game becomes..Arkansas studios have good ideas,, but are terrible at implementing them..
  83. Sep 15, 2021
    1
    I wanted to give this game a higher rank.. I thought the concept was really interesting but unfortunately I just can't for a few reasons.

    Biggest is performance.. this game does not have the high fidelity graphics and dense NPC crowds to justify running this poorly.. constant lag in multiplayer and stuttering when I play solo. Also the story is so lol-whackey. Did we really lose out
    I wanted to give this game a higher rank.. I thought the concept was really interesting but unfortunately I just can't for a few reasons.

    Biggest is performance.. this game does not have the high fidelity graphics and dense NPC crowds to justify running this poorly.. constant lag in multiplayer and stuttering when I play solo.

    Also the story is so lol-whackey. Did we really lose out on a Dishonored 3 for this..? Stealth mechanics have been basically wholesale abandoned as well which really hurts for someone who wanted more of a Thief vibe, not less.

    The worst of it all is the Denuvo.. maybe it's not fair to put in a review but really? Why are customers being punished for pirates? Can PC players stop being treated like criminals? I can almost hear the saw blades churning in my compute whenever I boot this thing up.

    EDIT

    Even though this game really missed the mark for in it's pacing / story. (I really want tight storyline games over online garbage) - if the performance issues were fixed, I'd have to bump my score up.
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  84. Jan 9, 2023
    1
    This game is horrible and overhyped. Menu system is horrible and outdated, the game is a repetitive mess, the characters are not likeable (annoying sounding protagonist and antagonist), and the game has tons of freezing and crashes. Avoid this trash!
  85. Nov 30, 2021
    1
    Honestly, over pretentious game. Annoying voice overs from the protagonist and the antagonist. shooter mechanics are terrible, gameplay wise is boring , maps are really small and the enemy AI is terrible. I really wonder what game did the critics played since honestly this game is really bad. There is no real challenge by either the enemies or the progression, you could kill literallyHonestly, over pretentious game. Annoying voice overs from the protagonist and the antagonist. shooter mechanics are terrible, gameplay wise is boring , maps are really small and the enemy AI is terrible. I really wonder what game did the critics played since honestly this game is really bad. There is no real challenge by either the enemies or the progression, you could kill literally everyone on the map without really too many troubles.

    Really bad and not worth full price.
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  86. Sep 15, 2021
    1
    The only positive thing I can say about this stuttering, repetitive and un-inventive game is that it inspired me to replay the original Dishonored since this game plays exactly the same as that nearly decade old game however Deathloop has none of the charm, interesting level design or quests like Dishonored has.
    I have no clue who they were making this game for. RPG fans will hate it for
    The only positive thing I can say about this stuttering, repetitive and un-inventive game is that it inspired me to replay the original Dishonored since this game plays exactly the same as that nearly decade old game however Deathloop has none of the charm, interesting level design or quests like Dishonored has.
    I have no clue who they were making this game for. RPG fans will hate it for its boring linear story and lack of long single player story narrative. FPS fans might like the enjoyable gun play but compared with other games released and soon to be released this isn't worth the time or money for them either.
    The fact official game reviewers are giving this 10/10 makes it seem like they are being paid.
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  87. Sep 19, 2021
    1
    I really had really low expectation but this is really a repetitive mess of a game with really bad AI and it runs really bad
  88. Sep 16, 2021
    1
    Shocking release. The game is a complete stuttering mess even with a 3080 installed. It begs the two questions :

    1) Did Arkane even bothered optimising and testing the game properly on PC ? 2) Did the reviewers like IGN only get the PS5 of the game to review? It feels that recently PC is being viewed as a second class citizen by Developers where all efforts seem to be focused on the
    Shocking release. The game is a complete stuttering mess even with a 3080 installed. It begs the two questions :

    1) Did Arkane even bothered optimising and testing the game properly on PC ?

    2) Did the reviewers like IGN only get the PS5 of the game to review?

    It feels that recently PC is being viewed as a second class citizen by Developers where all efforts seem to be focused on the console releases (Cyberpunk being the exception). It also poses the question if this is yet again related to the DRM software? There is a good game in there somewhere but unfortunately most people can’t enjoy it on PC.
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  89. Oct 23, 2021
    1
    Unfinished product. The game is full of bugs, terrible filler puzzles, completely incomprehensible argument, the story makes no sense... I don't wanna go into spoilers, but this is by far the worst story every written by Arcane. I played through the whole thing because of the respect I have for the company that made Dishonored, which is an amazing franchise, the respect that they didn'tUnfinished product. The game is full of bugs, terrible filler puzzles, completely incomprehensible argument, the story makes no sense... I don't wanna go into spoilers, but this is by far the worst story every written by Arcane. I played through the whole thing because of the respect I have for the company that made Dishonored, which is an amazing franchise, the respect that they didn't have for us, the players.

    The story and the whole game could have been told in 2 hours, and the complex **** was in the end completely irrelevant.

    Gameplay-wise is Dishonored 2 but worse. The "powers" come for no reason, the explanation is "because potato", in Dishonored you have powers and there's an explanation for them, here the explanation is completely stupid.

    There are thousand of things not explained in the game, there are many Colts in the same timeline, for no reason (the loop doesen't affect other timelines), there's phrases throught the game telling you what to do, for no reason, and Colt lost his memory, for no reason. This happens every single time.

    The last thing I will talk about is the completely unnecessary ammount of text. There are notes everywhere, and they are not simple extra content, they are relevant to the story, so relevant that you NEED to read them, and it makes the pace of the game a bumpy road.

    Terrible, for real, Arkane better changes their approach and make a game on the level of Dishonored if they want people to believe in them again.
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  90. Feb 14, 2022
    1
    NPC's AI 0/10

    combat mechanics 6/10
    stealth 2/10
    atmosphere 0/10
    Gameplay as RPG & im.sim: 2/10

    Story 1/10
    Graphics 6/10
    Sounds & music: who cares?

    Arkane Lyon got SJWashed. Deathpoop.
  91. Sep 19, 2021
    0
    Boring gameplay from 2012. Poor graphics and sound. Zero screeplay and story. Runs horribly on PC. I have a high end pc yet with everything on low I still get about 25 fps in combat
  92. Sep 22, 2021
    0
    Poor sound and graphics. Non-extant screenplay and story. Runs poorly. Crappy version of Dishonored. 0/10.
  93. May 22, 2022
    0
    sorry to say as i've been a fan of the studio's games since 2006 but other than the graphics and voice acting the game is complete crap. the performance is bad, the sound is bad, the gun and gameplay is bad, the ai is bad, the story is bad. it's a boring game. it's really a shame about the studio, but it was already evident with prey mooncrash and youngblood that nothing good was to come
  94. Oct 10, 2021
    0
    Game is not optimized nor stabile. Skip until it’s patched or be ready for a lot of frustration.
  95. Dec 24, 2022
    0
    Yet another poorly optimized game. Crashed on start up. Got a refund. Really in my view dev's need to do a lot better than this. Its a growing trend and it not acceptable. Got this one refunded.
  96. Sep 16, 2021
    0
    Denuvo causes micro stutters

    After Dishonored was good, but the sequels were not i was worried about this. And yeah its not great. Main characters are not likable, we can't the player character at all. Very few areas and its only one day repeated. Its a trial and error to pass this, you don't feel get any sense of progression from playing like other Bethesda games.
  97. Oct 10, 2021
    0
    The game keeps crashing with Error: access violation 0xc0000005. I will come back and re-review it when the game has been patched and can actually be played. At the moment it deserves a rating of 1 for unplayability. Updated Oct 10: With no fixes for the abundance of crashes, after 3 weeks, this game has cemented itself to a score of zero.
  98. Sep 22, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Of all the games that came out this and last years, she is the only one that did not tire me for all the passage. Although I'm not a fan of immersiveness, unlike Dishonored, I played differently. Stealth, rush, pacifism, and it's not that the game doesn't punish murder, but that it's just fun. In general, the gameplay is fun and interesting, the design leveled, as always, at a height in Arkane games, the sounds in the game are excellent, and the Russian voice acting is the best I've heard in the last
    couple of years, even counting the Sony exclusives. You can immediately see (hear) that a lot of work was done on the errors after Prey and all the best from Dishonored was fixed.
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  99. Sep 28, 2021
    0
    The game crashes every time that several NPC attack you. Do not waist your money
  100. Sep 23, 2021
    0
    Boring
    Repetitive
    Okay story nothing special
    Nowhere near as good as the Dishonored games
Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 25
  2. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 17, 2022
    100
    No need to think twice, we had a lot of time loop games. But Deathloop can get the most out of all elements. And whether you're protecting the loop or destroying it, don't forget to die a few times, it's fun.
  2. Nov 19, 2021
    77
    Too much hand-holding, some glaring omissions in the narrative and its somewhat weak AI do let Deathloop down, but still, it’s a rare and exciting game made for both fans of Corvo Attano and those who never set foot in the Empire of the Isles before.
  3. Nov 1, 2021
    70
    I applaud Arkane for switching up the Dishonored stealth/action formula here, and for addressing a few of the issues Dishonored had. Deathloop just feels too limited by comparison, though, and too repetitive by half besides. I know a lot of people who really like it, but it fell pretty flat for me.