Deathloop

MP1STJames Lara

10/10

Honestly, I just can’t recommend Deathloop enough to all you Xbox Series owners out there. It’s a fantastic game, that leans heavily into the identity crafted by Arkane Studio when they released Dishonored nearly a decade ago. It’s clever, fun, witty, and pure chaos at its best, what’s to hate about that?

XboxEraJesse 'Doncabesa' Norris

9.3/10

Deathloop is the best game Arkane has ever made, which is saying something. It is a brilliant culmination of their learnings over the years, and I absolutely love it. World-class writing, world-building, and story are matched with fun gameplay, great performance, and one of the smartest game worlds I’ve ever seen. It’s finally out on Xbox and it’s on Game Pass so do yourself a favor and play this near-masterpiece.

Xbox AchievementsRichard Walker

90/100

Yet another elegantly composed and impeccably designed Arkane sandbox, Deathloop is an intricate murder puzzle that’s part-Hitman, part-roguelite, and entirely sensational. There are few better ways to kill time.

Worth PlayingRedmond Carolipio

8.8/10

Deathloop is a first-person action that transports you to the lawless island of Blackreef in an eternal struggle between two extraordinary assassins.

GGReconFord James

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VideogamerJosh Wise

8/10

More than felling each Visionary, however, and piecing together the history of Blackreef, I relished uncovering more about Colt.

GamingBoltRavi Sinha

7/10

One year later and Deathloop is still very much Deathloop. It's intriguing, boasts strong production values, and offers an interesting mix of immersive sim and roguelite mechanics. Unfortunately, this is all bogged down by repetitive gameplay, a so-so PvP mechanic, pacing issues, and iffy AI. It's worth a try, but your mileage may vary.

Metro GameCentralGameCentral

7/10

Not quite a misfire but while the action is highly entertaining this time-looping adventure squanders much of its premise on disappointingly straightforward objectives and a curiously tame portrayal of unchecked hedonism.

Digital TrendsGiovanni Colantonio

“Deathloop is a tremendously stylish stealth-action game that builds on Arkane's strengths, even if some of its creative gambles fall flat.”

Gideons GamingGaming Gideon

Unscored

Deathloop’s a solid shooter with room for creativity in how you approach the individual districts. But its ham fisted linear handholding of a single viable sequence of events to actually break the loop greatly diminishes the novelty of the experience and reduces the game down to what feels like a reskin of the Dishonored games.

KotakuEthan Gach

Unscored

Video games are inescapably intertwined with iteration and do-overs. It’s written into the technology that builds them, the development practices that craft them, and often the very rules governing how they work: win-lose, trial and error. Some games have tried to mask this artifice in the service of more naturalistic storytelling. Deathloop embraces it. Up to a point.

Lords of GamingNicholas Downie

Unscored

Arkane is a studio that is known for its outside-the-box games and unique approach to storytelling through immersive worlds. From the dark stealth franchise Dishonored as well as the Bioshock-esque Prey (2017) most recently. Now with the studio’s latest project Deathloop, they look to blend their immersive world-building and storytelling...