Deathloop

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5.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 690 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 265 out of 690
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  1. AlexTheFishyman
    Dec 9, 2021
    9
    Notice: It seems most errors people get from this game are driver errors, it's not the actual game.
    I had a great experience playing this game on PC (steam), only had a weird bug happen to me once, which was easily fixed by reloading the game (didn't bother me as it only happened once).
    The story: it's great, it's about the titular loop an island constantly lives in, in which you must    Notice: It seems most errors people get from this game are driver errors, it's not the actual game.
    I had a great experience playing this game on PC (steam), only had a weird bug happen to me once, which was easily fixed by reloading the game (didn't bother me as it only happened once).
    The story: it's great, it's about the titular loop an island constantly lives in, in which you must break said cycle.
    The acting: phenomenal, you can't tell me otherwise, it's the absolute cream of the crop, period.
    The Gameplay: Much like Dishonored, in all the good ways, with some differences and improvements. You can create your own way of playing, making the game extremely replayable, besides the loop factor.
    Soundtrack: I love it, the theme itself is better than the last two Bond opening credits themes combined. Sound design is also pretty good.
    Conclusion: Arkane brought their A-game, yet again, with a Dishonored-like game good enough to be considered entirley different and actually better in some repects to Dishonored 2 or maybe even 1    … Expand
  2. godzflash61
    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
  3. Zeay
    Dec 2, 2021
    10
    I had insane fun exploring and shooting my way around Blackreef and by now there are zero performance issues.
  4. stratos_au
    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.    … Expand
  5. Trix122
    Nov 28, 2021
    0
    Bugs, crashes, stutters, performance problems , lack of optimization, shallow overall as a game.
    By watching the score disparity we can see how untrustable game journalist are.

    Not even average.
  6. jalalerfawni
    Nov 28, 2021
    10
    the best game (2021)
    story 10/10
    graphics 9/10
    gameplay 10/10
    music 10/10
    very very very good game
  7. tomh3115
    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.
  8. BulgarianCritic
    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
  9. Fanchylul
    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    … Expand
  10. jimmyazrael
    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.
  11. Drksdrs3issh1t
    Nov 17, 2021
    7
    I had almost no performance issues and the game is pretty fun and unique. It's not as polished and didn't have as much budget as the Dishonored games, but I still had fun with it as a fan of Arkane Studios' games
  12. Marchisio
    Nov 16, 2021
    0
    They didn't pay me for the review. I'm sorry but I'm not for sale. I wish you'd used your budget for the game itself rather than the marketing part of the game.
  13. arostislavna
    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".
  14. Exsosus
    Nov 11, 2021
    10
    This is hands down the most amazingly, awesome game out there for PC/PS5! It has a combination of these games, all of which I loved: sneaking around assasinations= Hitman / Hitman 2. Hacking and codebreaking and finding your way into secure buildings= Deus Ex and Deus Ex 2, An on-going save system that feels like a real life experience, rather than a Save / Load your game type of videogameThis is hands down the most amazingly, awesome game out there for PC/PS5! It has a combination of these games, all of which I loved: sneaking around assasinations= Hitman / Hitman 2. Hacking and codebreaking and finding your way into secure buildings= Deus Ex and Deus Ex 2, An on-going save system that feels like a real life experience, rather than a Save / Load your game type of videogame =Bioshock, and some games I haven't played but here are good: Dishonored, and Dishonored 2.

    The top ten things about this game are from 10 being least cool to 1 being Awesomeness:
    10. Guns, lots of guns! Makes The Matrix look like a 1st day in the army where this is World War III. Think Borderlands games lots, not quite, but you get my idea.
    9. You can hack anything that has a radio reciever. Didn't you wish you could hack a radio reciever in real life in the city, such as a cellphone tower? Well here you can. That keeps me coming back for more hacking tomorrow and the next day.
    8. The AI chases you down and kills you. In the beginning, the first 5-10 hours the AI is very easy as it's in 'learning mode' once you keep playing after 9 hours you'll begin to realize how hard-core the AI can be. I was head-shotted by a sniper rifle, not Juliana human now..., but an NPC sniper on the side of the ridge. Shot through a window, I died. Very fast.
    7. Juliana can be your worst nightmare or your most trusted friend: I enjoy killing other players as human Juliana. I enjoy other Julianas' invading my game too, to try to ruin my day. But what I like most? I can have my family member play as Juliana and we can kill the NPCs together, even the bosses.
    6. There is no linear mission play-through. You cannot say: You will do this, that, and then next that. There are recommended guides online on order of doing things, but you can do them a different way anyway. The guide said there were 2 ways. I discovered 5 different ways to assassinate Harriet in the morning. See if you can too.
    5. If you enjoyed old-school games like Bioshock and Deus Ex, you will absolutely love this. It will blow you away. As it has aspects from many older games all put into one package. Liked Borderlands 1, 2 , and 3? Then you'll fit right at home here. Did you enjoy the 'magic' plasmids in Bioshock? Yep, check! Liked hacking like I did in Deus Ex? Here you can hack anything with an antenna. Welcome to Deathloop.
    4. There is no death. Only learning Yes you can die temporarily, but you are immortal repeating time, and you remember EVERYTHING. it's Monday tomorrow, it's Monday next week, and yes, you guessed it, it's Monday in 40 years until you break the loop. One day, you will learn how to break the loop.
    3. OP like there is no tomorrow. Sure there is overkill in other games. Not like Deathloop, no way. Deathloop brings overkill and overpowered terminology to a whole new level. Try throwing a sticky grenade to someone's body then shooting the stick grenade and watch the fireworks. How about tossing a grenade on the floor between two men and then diving out the window. Can you do that in Call of Duty? No, but it would be nice if you could. Now you can and you feel and act as quiet as a silent killer too... see reason #2.
    2. I always wanted to be a hitman, in a videogame. I loved the Hitman 1 and 2 games. What I missed was the fusion of silence & guns blazing. Here you can do both. Some days I do completely silent kills, I mean that, not a single bullet sound but perhaps a silent needle gun. The next, I will go out with an explosive-bullet shotgun and blow the whole city up.
    1. Nearly unlimited character development. I have not seen a game yet, that comes to this level of character development. Without spoiling here, there are 3 forms of development for Colt and Juliana. 1. Body upgrades, 2. Weapon upgrades, 3. Magic upgrades.

    THANK YOU Arkane & Bethesda Studioes for bringing us a masterpiece.

    See you in-game PS5 and PC players, try to kill me...oh! Did I mention, it's cross-platform on random invasions? Now I did...

    Sincerely,
    Exsosus    … Expand
  15. MegaCriticsOP
    Nov 5, 2021
    0
    Truly in style of AMAZON! Actually 0 attention to the people and "something" (sort of something) to the product. By watching what games they make i begin beliving in UFO, gray/green people or some other trash. CUS THIS IS NO WAY MADE BY HUMANS IN 2021!
  16. fj007
    Nov 2, 2021
    9
    You may want to ignore all reviews >= 3. No need to find this game great (yet, I do), but this is certainly not a bad or even a very bad game.

    That out of the way: This game has all the stuff to be a classic: It is a very intelligent follow-up to design ideas developed in the Dishonoured series, but with some very new ingredients. I love the intricate setup of the puzzles, the way you    You may want to ignore all reviews >= 3. No need to find this game great (yet, I do), but this is certainly not a bad or even a very bad game.

    That out of the way: This game has all the stuff to be a classic: It is a very intelligent follow-up to design ideas developed in the Dishonoured series, but with some very new ingredients. I love the intricate setup of the puzzles, the way you slowly unwrap the back story and discover more and more hints, how to kill the 8 visionaries on 4 maps. I assume, if you are looking mainly for a shooter, you may find DL a bit underwhelming, but I experience it more as an innovative action adventure with heavy emphasis on adventure (story telling, puzzle solving, timed tasks etc.) and think as such it is great fun.    … Expand
  17. BradleyJeremy
    Oct 29, 2021
    0
    Este es de los típicos juegos qué te aburren a las primeras horas, para el precio qué vale pudo ser mejor.
  18. Steyraus
    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..
  19. Xitomz
    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.    … Expand
  20. szarywilq
    Oct 12, 2021
    9
    Do not trust negative user reviews:
    1. People who hoped for Dishonored 3 - are not happy obviosuly, but this is not Dishonored 3 and never meant to be
    2. Performance issues are mostly fixed. I played 40+ hours with 1 crash. 3. What people do not understand is that this game is the best when online mode is active. When you play as Colt, you can get invaded by other players like in Dark    Do not trust negative user reviews:
    1. People who hoped for Dishonored 3 - are not happy obviosuly, but this is not Dishonored 3 and never meant to be
    2. Performance issues are mostly fixed. I played 40+ hours with 1 crash.
    3. What people do not understand is that this game is the best when online mode is active. When you play as Colt, you can get invaded by other players like in Dark Souls. Awesome!
    4. This is not only 4 maps, because we have also 4 times of day. Maps not only look different like day/night but different things happen on them. Different areas are opened/closed, different enemies, different events.
    5. After you finish main story, you can experiment in it more + you can play as invader!    … Expand
  21. churros
    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
  22. silverluso
    Oct 11, 2021
    9
    Very fun game, stylish and interesting game play with characters that are distinctive and memorable. It's too easy in parts, and I wish it were as deep as prey or dishonored, but it's still very fun. It runs fine on pc with tweaking, although the drm is crap and the void engine is still kind of not worth the cost. Graphics are decent too impressive, and over all I had a blast with the game.
  23. Kerber
    Oct 10, 2021
    0
    Game is not optimized nor stabile. Skip until it’s patched or be ready for a lot of frustration.
  24. Sheleg
    Oct 10, 2021
    9
    Its been a while since I've been sucked into a game, like this one has done to me.
  25. n808
    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.
  26. dndb301
    Oct 8, 2021
    7
    It's not a bad game, but the state of AI interferes with the immersion of the game. 7/10
  27. Clair12
    Oct 3, 2021
    10
    It was a great surprise, 10/10.
    It's perfect if you like detective stories!
  28. Polina_S
    Oct 2, 2021
    8
    Good! It’s now as good as “pray”, but I liked the idea and generally I enjoyed playing it! Music is also nice!
  29. Treus15
    Oct 1, 2021
    0
    Game is crashing constantly (RTX 3080, 32GB Ram, 5600X).
    Bethesda support doesnt help, story is pretty boring, too much backtracking, it just gets boring after a while because you already visited every level many many times.

    I am very disappointed after Prey (2017) which I loved.
  30. Dunkalt977
    Sep 30, 2021
    7
    Not very high quality, but original for one time games.
    Expected better graphics and variety from the 2021 game.
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Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 25
  3. 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. Riot Pixels
    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.
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  3. Game Over Online
    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.
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