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As Colt, explore Blackreef's repeating day, gather clues, and use stealth, guns, and powers to line up eight assassinations.
Released 13 Sep 2021
Hunt Eight Visionaries
Plan Time-Specific Runs
Hack Blackreef Defenses
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
Developed by Arkane Studios · Published by Bethesda Softworks









You play as Colt, an assassin trapped in a repeating day on Blackreef. To escape the loop, he must uncover how the island works and arrange for eight key targets to be killed within a single day.
Explore four districts at different times of day, searching for clues, listening in on conversations, and following leads about the targets and their routines. What you learn carries between loops, helping you plan which places to visit and when to make events line up.
Approach encounters with stealth, gunfire, supernatural abilities, or hacked defenses, and experiment with weapons and powers to suit your tactics. Death resets the day, while Residuum lets you preserve selected equipment between loops. An optional multiplayer mode lets another player—or AI—control Julianna and hunt Colt.
Players who enjoy DEATHLOOP often praise the satisfaction of gathering clues and gradually learning how to shape the repeating day, alongside flexible combat with guns and supernatural abilities. The colorful retro-futurist setting, music, and Colt–Julianna banter are also recurring favorites. Experiences are mixed: many players find repeated trips through the same districts tedious, while others see that repetition as central to the game’s appeal.


| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 58 |
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| Players | 1–2 |
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| Multiplayer | DEATHLOOP is primarily a single-player game with optional online PvP. One player plays Colt in the main campaign, and another player can invade as Julianna to hunt Colt. If online invasions are disabled, Julianna can be AI-controlled instead. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support is described in the provided information. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 87/100 View on Metacritic |