Dishonored
Dishonored
Game
Game2021
DEATHLOOP
Developer Arkane Studios
Deathloop is a 2021 first-person shooter game developed by Arkane Lyon and published by Bethesda Softworks. The player controls Colt Vahn, an assassin who must escape a time loop by killing eight targets known as visionaries before midnight each day. The story is set on an island named Blackreef. Each day is divided into morning, noon, afternoon, and evening; and moving between the island's four districts causes… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
457 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
67
Fresh
185 positive · 91 negative
95% range 61–72%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 185 | 91 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 50 | 11 | 75 |
| Lemmy * | 4 | 0 | 21 |
| Mastodon * | 5 | 2 | 13 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
13,463 of 17,872 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
66% recommend · 166 yes, 86 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 252 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (23,217 of 30,523 positive).
Many players praise the game's style, fun gameplay, and interesting story, despite some shortcomings. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the game for bugs, repetitive gameplay, and lack of innovation. [4][5][6] A few players express disappointment with the game's execution and technical issues. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [4]
"Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades." It hurts me to do this, but as a fan of Dishonored, I really wanted to like Deathloop. Unfortunately, bugs prevented me from enjoying it and ended up ruining a few of my runs. For example, the Hackamajig stopped working on the antenna after I killed Julianna, preventing me from leaving the level. On top of that, the game crashed twice within the first few hours, …
- [5]
The game is alright. Conceptually a great game, but its lacking in execution. I felt quite dissapointed with the lack of creativity in solving the big loop issue. I felt super handheld throughout the whole game, which heavily devauled the story and gameplay for me. Its certainly fun at times, and the abilities and slabs were fun to use etc. but the puzzles and story elements were so incredibly surface level. The …
- [1]
NOTE: This review is primarily focused on offline, PvE gameplay, which is not how everyone will play this game. Deathloop is a lot of fun. I got it in a bundle, saw that it had mixed reviews, and had heard that it got a lot of hate online, so I went in expecting very little. What I got was a pretty fun time loop shooter with 70s flair, an engaging gameplay loop, and a writing that was interesting enough to sustain …
- [12]
It was amazing for the first 20 hours or so, when you have a lot to discover each run in the 16 variations (4 maps x 4 day times). You find multiple clues and feel the game steadily progressing. Gameplay is Dishonored With Guns, which is great. The world is great, the story is good, and Colt and Julianna definetely are one of the best character pairs in the game world, greatly written, perfectly performed. Then it …
- [2]
An outlandish departure for Arkane, DEATHLOOP comes through feeling incredibly confident in both its style and structure, and while it doesn't always hit every mark it aims for, it manages to be so fun in your hands that its easy to forgive its shortcomings. Is it "better" than Prey or Dishonored or even Mooncrash? Maybe not, but I respect taking the shot at something not so safe.
Summarised from 34 of the 393 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked DEATHLOOP talk about great visual style and 60s retro-futurism aesthetic; those who didn't talk about game can become repetitive after many hours. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Deathloop received "generally favorable reviews" from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. 92% of critics recommended it, according to OpenCritic. Edwin Evans-Thirwell from Eurogamer described Deathloop as one of the most enjoyable games Arkane had released; he noted its connection to the Dishonored series, and called Deathloop a significant refinement over its predecessor while also being an "accessible introduction to Arkane's grittier immersive sims". Writing for GameSpot, Tamoor Hussain said "observation and dynamic thinking" are as important as combat in Deathloop, and players are rewarded for carefully planning and understanding the system and rules. He also…
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60 of 457 · most liked firstKnowledge Based Rules. Outer Wilds changed my life then Tunic changed it again Edit: Game Recommendations by the people in the comments: * Disco Elysium - @[email protected] * Kingdom Come Deliverance - @[email protected] * Fez - @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] * I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - @[email protected] * Noita - @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] * The Witness - @[email protected] * Lingo -…
neutral · AI labelView post →what's the most disappointed you've been in a video game? I don't mean the *worst,* but the one with the biggest unrealized potential? for me it's Deathloop, absolutely banger idea, cracking music and aesthetics, but totally threw away its core premise by not actually *using* time properly
negative · AI labelView post →A game I think really got slept on is Deathloop. Extremely stylish, interesting conceit, fun protagonist, leans into Arkane’s main strength i.e. sending you on stealth missions to kill a bunch of weird perverts
positive · AI labelView post →Bro is been 5 years and this game still force me to star the game online because of the DRM.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →List of games where knowledge is progression. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/16885686 > Outer Wilds changed my life then Tunic changed it again > > Edit: Game Recommendations by the people in the comments: > > * Disco Elysium - @[email protected] > * Kingdom Come Deliverance - @[email protected] > * Fez - @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected] > * I Was a Teenage Exocolonist - @[email protected] > * Noita - @[email protected],…
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy August, everybody, I just whomped up another cover song, this one of a song from the video game "Deathloop." It's a love song! Isn't that nice? Please enjoy, and welcome to month eight. youtu.be/RcISaOrJal0
neutral · AI labelView post →Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games.
neutral · AI labelView post →A very kind reminder that realism can and should be stylized in videogames and not attributed to the use of certain game engines. Mirror's Edge did it, Control and Alan Wake 2 did it, Hitman3 and 007 First Light did it. We could toss in the Dishonored games, Prey and Deathloop while we're at it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Most of them seemed to be giving it a fair go but Linus himself seemed to be treating it more like a Cheap Car Challenge from Top Gear. He was cracking (bad) jokes about “just Linux things” before he’d even started and he gave up pretty much straight away. The problems he was having with Discord seemed more like Discord issues than Linux issues. I game on Linux without issue. Literally 95% of games just work without issue. Deathloop never ran well and Routine (a UE game) for some reason kept…
neutral · AI labelView post →The end of the game is a mess but I really appreciate what they were trying for in Deathloop. They swung for the fences. One of the few games to pull off 60s mod well.
neutral · AI labelView post →this also really pissed me off about Deathloop, because it *should* have been a game in actual time, or close to! One that essentially made the idea of the speed run the game, a sandbox where you could experiment with ridiculous stuff.
negative · AI labelView post →I was very proud to stand on stage at the game awards in Los Angeles as we accepted an award on behalf of the “DEATHLOOP” team. I was proud to do so while wearing my trans pride colors big and clear for the world to see. 20/24
neutral · AI labelView post →"Stealth technically optional but so strongly encouraged that you should forget about the fact we put guns in the game" games like Deathloop really whet my appetite for Bethesda games, shitty as they are. Having stealth *AND* weapons feels great. Being forced to choose one or the other is no fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →2022. I spent the n-xt year tour_ng game dev conf--_-.ces talking --._- "DEATHLOOP" and --.--__UR-UX journey. I was prom—..to director and began --—..- det--.-ed and ext--_-—.. e training materials for ..--t the LD team and eve--—.._lly the --_udio. 2-/-_
neutral · AI labelView post →"Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades." It hurts me to do this, but as a fan of Dishonored, I really wanted to like Deathloop. Unfortunately, bugs prevented me from enjoying it and ended up ruining a few of my runs. For example, the Hackamajig stopped working on the antenna after I killed Julianna, preventing me from leaving the level. On top of that, the game crashed twice within the first few hours, which really hurt my experience and ultimately prevented me from completing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you wished stealth games didn't disincentivize you from using your sick powers to murder people, then try Deathloop, a game that gives you all the overpowered tools of Dishonored and puts you on Epstein Island. I don't remember how hard this game pushes the "roguelike" thing but it isn't at all, you don't even lose your sick purple/orange drops if you die if you pay a trivial currency cost to bind it. That was a mechanic I was really hoping to see in the game to incentivise being careful…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NOTE: This review is primarily focused on offline, PvE gameplay, which is not how everyone will play this game. Deathloop is a lot of fun. I got it in a bundle, saw that it had mixed reviews, and had heard that it got a lot of hate online, so I went in expecting very little. What I got was a pretty fun time loop shooter with 70s flair, an engaging gameplay loop, and a writing that was interesting enough to sustain me throughout my playthrough. As far as stealth action shooters go, it's not…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of my all-time favorite game writers sent me a message complementing my barks on Deathloop and it basically made my week.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been playing Deathloop again lately and i am Surprised by how many people are still out there invading games as Julianna. It's happened to me like 4 times. Who is opening this game and pressing "invade" and waiting at that matchmaking screen. I was sure it'd be all over by now
neutral · AI labelView post →I adore everything Arkane do. The art style, writing, game play are all fantastic. But. I got three quarters of the way through this game, just as the mysteries and game play started to get really interesting and the game bricked itself. I had a months long conversation with the help teams to determine the issue and no-one seems to have any idea how to fix it. I am gutted, because its not the kind of game you are going to be able to restart, if you play enough of the story you will understand.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fredo's Game-Os goty (for the last 10 years) 2024: UFO 50 2023: Baldur's Gate 3 2022: Elden Ring 2021: Deathloop* 2020: Hades 2019: Control 2018: Red Dead Redemption 2* 2017: Zelda: Breath of the Wild* 2016: Stardew Valley 2015: The Witcher 3*
neutral · AI labelView post →9 hours since launch, Deathmatch Island is fully-funded and closing in on its second stretch goal! Squid Game, Survivor, Battle Royale, Lost, Deathloop, Control, and Severance form the touchstones for this dystopian game of competition, paranoia, and control. www.backerkit.com/c/evil-hat/d...
neutral · AI labelView post →In this game we play as Colt, a man waking up at a beach without any memory or recollection, knowing nothing of his past nor what is he doing in that place. Very quickly we are introduced to the center stage mechanic. Colt is trapped in this island called Blackreef, where some scientific anomaly is causing each day to repeat itself endlessly in a loop. At the end of each day, everything that happened resets, and even death is rewound. This has been perpetuated by the rulers of this place, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deathloop (PS5) is $11.99 at Best Buy buff.ly/auMvpRH also on Game Pass Standard
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is fun, but why is Denuvo not removed yet?? it affects performance on lower end system...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yesterday was five years since the release of Deathloop. I was really happy to be a freelance writer on that project. Such a wonderful team and game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Reviewing this game is difficult, because it does so much right and so much wrong. It took me about 2 years of on and off playing this game to finally finish it. The first hours are so weird and confusing, as well as you being weak and lacking abilities, but near the end of this game it becomes quite fun. Don't get it for full price for sure but on a deep sale it may be worth a try. I don't regret playing it or anything.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An outlandish departure for Arkane, DEATHLOOP comes through feeling incredibly confident in both its style and structure, and while it doesn't always hit every mark it aims for, it manages to be so fun in your hands that its easy to forgive its shortcomings. Is it "better" than Prey or Dishonored or even Mooncrash? Maybe not, but I respect taking the shot at something not so safe.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Talking about Deathloop this week led me to find a few cut PSAs by the pretentious game designer Visionary, Charlie Montague.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jeez, my mentions are still a constant deluge of hot & cold comments. Wildly oscillating between 'Deathloop is one of the coolest games I've ever played' and 'Deathloop was complete garbage'. As a huge fan of it, I really do feel like some people played a different game to me.
positive · AI labelView post →I made the situationship start playing Deathloop and I forgot how genuinely good as hell that game is
positive · AI labelView post →Most rougelites kind of do this. For "big" FPS games Deathloop kind of does it. You and the main villain are aware of a reset that happens when you die or the two day timer runs out. Every loop you gain more knowledge, and every miniboss gives more power. But to actually beat the game, you need to do a bunch of tasks in the right order in the right timeslots. I don't think I ever finished it, but it was a fun concept
neutral · AI labelView post →This one hurts. Nobody really makes games like Arkane does anymore. Dishonored 1-2, Death of the outsider, Prey, and Deathloop are all fantastic. They had one bad game with RedFall and sadly haven’t recovered since. I hope they can make it through this. We desperately need devs like this right now.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dishonoured 2 and Deathloop inspire me above any other game in existence. Dishonoured 2 got a shoutout during my wedding speech because my husband and I both have such admiration for the art direction and game design. Arkane Lyon can bottle magic when left alone to do what it does best.
positive · AI labelView post →Trying to play this game again after years of being away from it. Had trouble about a year ago where it would crash. Now it simply does not launch. It worked when I first got it long ago, but some update broke it at some point. I know I could try to roll back the GPU drivers, but I just don't think it's worth the hassle. I don't think this will ever get fixed. It's simply not worth it to the corporation to fix a product that didn't sell well in the first place. Unfortunately I think the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deathloop was a pretty fun take on this. Just with more sandbox immersive sim type puzzles than adventure game ones.
positive · AI labelView post →This is an amazing game, I don't know why it's so underrated. Great visual style. Interesting story with lots of secrets to find. Fun abilities, fun gunplay, fun ways to approach every objective. The knowledge-based progression is both a ton of fun and really speaks to me as somebody who enjoys roguelikes (which this is not). The multiplayer is really cool, unique, and rewarding, and also completely optional in case you don't want to worry about losing progress whenever a pro CoD player…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Guides for working settings for each game. I’ve dabbled with Linux and I’ve finally decided to try and switch to it for real, mostly because I’m starting a new job soonish that will require more Linux knowledge, but also because I’m getting sick of all the Windows privacy issues. I’m actually liking it better than I thought. Taking an attitude that I’m sticking with it is giving me more of a drive to actually fix the issues I’m having rather than moaning about them, and it’s a good opportunity…
neutral · AI labelView post →This conversation pit from Deathloop (a game with some top tier interior decoration) raises an important question: why the hell did we stop putting conversation pits in houses.
neutral · AI labelView post →The game is alright. Conceptually a great game, but its lacking in execution. I felt quite dissapointed with the lack of creativity in solving the big loop issue. I felt super handheld throughout the whole game, which heavily devauled the story and gameplay for me. Its certainly fun at times, and the abilities and slabs were fun to use etc. but the puzzles and story elements were so incredibly surface level. The hardest part of the game was just finding what damned paper to read in each…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Deathloop" is a game made with ambition and a desire to innovate within territory that its studio, Arkane, has already explored. For that, it is admirable, and, I think, worth experiencing. That said, I don't feel that it is entirely successful as a game or as a story. It's good, but it stumbles short of greatness. While there are obvious comparisons to be made with the earlier "Dishonored" titles, it doesn't reach the same highs. For those who have played the "Dishonored" games, this is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From a developer on Deathloop, Dishonored, and Crysis 4 comes Threshold, [free] short survival horror game..
neutral · AI labelView post →Deathloop is one of the most unique first-person shooters I've played in recent years. At its core, it's a shooter built around a time loop. Each day is divided into morning, afternoon, evening, and night, and once the day ends, the loop resets. What makes the game special is how much information matters. Different events happen in different locations at different times, and it's up to you to discover how everything connects. The game rewards curiosity and experimentation. You might learn…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I find the gameplay very boring and repetitive although it is not the worst. The game has cool ideas and mechanics, but I think the lack of variety is what kills the execution. I don't know if it's because I have not found all the different types of weapons, trinkets etc but I am already 8 hours in :/ it was fun at first but it just made me not excited to play after a day of work. The enemies are all relatively the same as well, sure some enemies have their perks like dashing or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was amazing for the first 20 hours or so, when you have a lot to discover each run in the 16 variations (4 maps x 4 day times). You find multiple clues and feel the game steadily progressing. Gameplay is Dishonored With Guns, which is great. The world is great, the story is good, and Colt and Julianna definetely are one of the best character pairs in the game world, greatly written, perfectly performed. Then it starts to get so... damn... REPETITIVE. You have to do a whole run to discover…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deathloop is great, a really fun game that lets you feel clever when you figure things out. (And you do have to figure a bunch of stuff out.)
positive · AI labelView post →Starting my like...once-a-year replay of Deathloop It's such a charming game
positive · AI labelView post →I feel pretty mixed on Deathloop. A lot of the powers and abilities are complete reskins of stuff from the Dishonored games. Even the situations like having a masked party or going into a place where you can't use your powers are just re-dos of things from Dishonored. I get that it's "in the Dishonored universe" but it's like they can't come up with anything original, and rely solely on taking what already worked before, rather than trying something new. I did find the gameplay fun, but only…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just saw this game in my library and I was surprised I didn't leave it a negative review back in the day, so I am correcting that error. I do not know what reviewers and players saw in this game at launch, acting like it matching Arkane's peaks in Prey: Mooncrash and Dishonored 1. This game is essentially 4 medium to small sized levels with barely any changes depending on the time of the day you are there. You also don't "solve" the timeloop which is the central premise of the game, you just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deathloop feels like coming home This is probably my all-time favourite game (along with Outer Wilds). I played it back in the late ‘22 on Epic and I liked it so much that apart from the deluxe version on Epic I bought one on Steam as well. On Epic I have about 153 hours in the game. This game has an absolutely perfect art-style, some of the best in-game music that I listen to outside of the game as well, extremely fun game/gun-play, awesome story and probably the best execution of a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Deathloop is free on Epic at the moment. I liked that game a LOT.
positive · AI labelView post →Let me introduce myself. Andrii Mykhailov - Senior vehicle artist, currently working on Indiana Jones game at Machinegames. Previously worked on Deathloop, Metro:Exodus, Various Call Of Duty titles. #3d #3dartist #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Weekend PC Game Deals: Bundled chaos, indie allies, Xbox lunar sales, and more. - Hogwarts Legacy – $29.99 on Indiegala - Grounded – $26.79 on Steam - Last Train Home – $26.39 on Steam - Sonic Frontiers – $23.99 on Steam - Dead Space – $23.99 on Steam - Psychonauts 2 – $20.39 on Steam - Hi-Fi RUSH – $19.49 on Steam - The Callisto Protocol – $17.99 on Steam - DREDGE – $17.49 on Steam - V Rising – $15.99 on Steam - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR – $14.99 on Steam - Ghostwire: Tokyo – $14.99 on…
neutral · AI labelView post →~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it ✅ Easy 🔲 Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 Dark Souls ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Graphics dont matter in this game 🔲 Good ✅ Beautiful ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad 🔲 Not special 🔲 Good ✅ Eargasm ~ STORY ~ 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Like playing Temple Runners for the story 🔲 It's there for the people who want it ✅ Well written 🔲 Epic story ~ PRICE ~ 🔲 Free 🔲 Underpriced ✅ Perfect Price 🔲 Could be cheaper 🔲…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the style of this game 🎮= Deathloop #DeathLoop #ArkaneLyon #VirtualPhotography #vprepost #VPSupport #VPInspired
positive · AI labelView post →The start of Arkane's fall from grace after the success that was Prey. The AI are so unbelievably dumb that any joy you could get from the combat system feels pointless. The performance is terrible and the audio balance is all over the place. Seriously, the explosions from landmines are nearly twice as loud as any other noise in the game. The worst offender is the "Loop" system. Each day is broken up into 4 time periods where you can go to 4 different map locations. The problem is that most…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →at the end of the day, Deathloop is just a game about a guy who got kicked out of the group chat.
neutral · AI labelView post →Honestly think it was Deathloop. Hugely slept on game, fun protagonist and really interesting design. I’m a person who really like depth in a game loop rather than breadth, and having to learn the intricacies of like five big levels and how they interact was awesome
positive · AI labelView post →I've never seen more people be wrong about a game than Deathloop, I truly don't understand it. Flawed, sure, but so compelling and goddamn FUN. One that's stuck with me heavily.
positive · AI labelView post →Not bad per se, but the trailers paint a completely false picture of what the game really is. It is portrayed as a kind of mystery/puzzle game where you have to yourself find a way to get all of the "visionaries" at the same point in a span of a day, which could make a really cool, unique and interesting game. Instead, you get questmarkers and specific things to do, without any way to diverge from there. You don't have to figure even a single thing out for yourself which really is a shame. I've…
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