DEATHLOOP

[h1] Do. not. buy. - the intrusive and outright hostile DRM software known as DeNuVO has broken this game [/h1] Error 0xC0000005 (access violation) becoz: Denuvo. which is a common issue for plenty of players with this game and I started getting this 8 hours in. despite the fact that i don't have any program whatsoever trying to access this game's files. This error makes it impossible to progress after a certain point as you will lose any weapons, trinkets, visionary kills, and residiuum you collect after starting a loop. So the game is by definition, unplayable. after around 3 hours of messing around, i still can't fix it. thanks DENUVO. how haven't they fixed this abomination since 2021? good thing I only spent 10 eur on this garbage

Literally unplayable now. Void error and they're never coming back to fix it. Just crashes at launch regardless if you're amd or nvidia.

What I love about Arkane is that they are consistently trying new things, and I think this game was another positive step forward for the studio, even if it falls flat for people. My rationale? It's a classic Arkane game wrapped in a neat little time loop with a new concept on levels and missions. There are four individual well-crafted levels that can be visited at four different periods of the day, which change the enemies and parts of the map layout. The game also has the excellent combat, stealth, and powers that Arkane is renowned for. Concept was really well done, the characters were nicely crafted, and I think the execution was almost perfect, but there was just one issue which made the game lacking for others. The main problem? There is only one solution, only one "Golden Loop" as they put it. This unfortunately locks you into a pretty linear path, even if you explore the rest of the maps for the solution during the time loop period. This paired with the invasion style gameplay (which I really liked) meant that the majority of invasions occurred in 4 set places and times, and that led to people only using one path/spot that they knew really well, rather than exploring and moving around which is when Arkane games are at their best. Had there been multiple solutions, even just 3 or 4, this would have opened up so many more opportunities for players to explore and replay the game and maps alike, and would have extended the shelf life of this. I still absolutely adore this game. It's really well designed, the powers are satisfying, and being able to infuse your equipment meant you'd never feel lacking in your next loop attempt. On sale, worth every single penny.

Death loop is a good shooter, a mediocre rouge-lite, a bad detective game and a decent story game. I'd say this game is strongest in its art style and presentation. Every area, weapon, character and model in Deathloop all look amazing. With a beautiful 60s esquire art style. The game play will be familiar to anyone who has played other games made by Arkane studios, however Deathloop feels different due to the time loop. Because you are expected to play through the same areas over and over you get the freedom to play fast and sloppy, experimenting with what works to optimise your time in each area. With a lot less concern for limiting factors like scarcity of health, power, ammo etc. The rogue lite elements are fine but honestly ruined by a really minor menu issue which is really frustrating. Each item is valued by residuum. Which lets you infuse an item to you or destroy it for more residuum . However you do both those things in different menus and require long held button presses for each item for some reason. Honestly the more I played I just ignored the whole process until the end of the loop which brings a different UI menu which is faster. Which is an issue, because you can lose items if you die before the loop ends but whatever. I think one of the more disappointing aspects in Deathloop is that the game starts with both you and the protagonist have no idea where they are and whats going on, and are told to figure it out. Its really exciting at first being told how complex it will be to end the time loop, just for the process to be entirely governed by checkpoints and way points. Its honestly silly because the game is confined to 4 locations which change as each day goes on, I don't see why they couldn't let players figure it out on their own considering your expected to be in the same location so often. The story of Death loop is strong but has a lot of holes in it that should have been mended. Colt is a great protagonist with a lot of charisma and personality. Juliana is likewise a great antagonist and foil to Colt. However the wider world around them feels obscured or underdeveloped. All of the other antagonist are interesting but difficult to see the full picture of during normal game play. Death loop seems its one of those games where you have to watch a lore video after you beat it to actually understand the context that was going on. If you dig deep enough sure you will find most of the info you want, but it doesn't happen naturally in game play. Like I said in the above paragraph your expected to follow way point for the main story but for lore details you have to read computer logs off the beaten path?? I think telling the story this way would be better if the game held you hand less. There would be more significance for search for hidden details. The ending is not very good either. [spoiler]You learn nothing after the ending but the time loop ends. Other than the visionaries being mad you get nothing. Colt and some eternalists walk into the sunset that's it.[/spoiler] As for the online mode, it started out good but ruined by cheaters and lag. Similar to Dark Souls, you can enable players to enter your game as Juliana to try and hunt you down. I loved this feature at first. As soon as you know another player is in the lobby you instantly feel the tension and learn to clean up your act and not let them ruin your day. I enjoyed this at first but the consequence for death is high enough that I disabled it once I ran into about two cheaters. Juliana as an AI is just terrible to fight too. She often just appears in front of you and either catches you at a bad time and kills you instantly. Or is just a non threat and dies right away. I tried playing as Juliana myself after beating the game but found the game mode is dead enough where im only being put into games with Colt's who live across the world from me. There was times where I'd try to chase down a Colt only for a NPC to beat me to him its so laggy, also I ran into a cheater Colt as well.... Some people will ruin any gamemode for their own amusement. Overall if you dig Deathloops vibe and like shooter games I;d say pick it up. Its has many problems but I still like seeing a fully original new IP AAA game. They are only getting more rare and I'd like to see more games like Deathloop succeed.

This game is actually brilliant. It's not for lazy gamers, hence the reviews are not in favor, but trust me it's worth playing it.

The game is uplayable on steam due to so many graphical problems. Goes black if someone on your friendslist starts playing a game. goes white if you get a discord message. it randomly crashes for "disconnect" errors that the internet is clueless on how to resolve. I love this game so much i bought it a second time. Previously on epic and now on steam. the epic version plays wonderfully with the ocassional crash from the same "disconnect" error. but the steam version I cant get through a single loop without it crashing or bugging out. I want to 100% this game on steam but everytime something like this happens I lose 20-30+ minutes of gameplay and dont want to keep going anymore. I hate it. I cannot in any good faith recommend anyone give this game their money until these things are fixed. and they wont be, so Keep your money.

Awesome game that mocks typical stealth-game perfectionist gameplay loop of (try/get spotted and fail/repeat) and does not punish you for a failure, but rewards with more fun content - it's not annoying as in typical stealth action, because you have not really failed if you get spotted or die or miss your objective - you just went for another loop. Game still progresses pros: - timeloop - plot - gameplay - guns cons: - multiplayer matchmaking often connects you to host on another continent with ping over 3 seconds :\

Had 5 crashes in the 5 hours of playing so far, really annoying. have try to dial down graphics but not sure that's the real issue.

Game looks good, Dialog is funny, Gameplay is fun. Now i wish i could actually play it without crashing every 10 Minutes cause of this stupid peace of Trash they call a game engine. How hard can it be to make the game you wannne sell actually fu##ing work

I had the idea to replay this game today and I was shocked to see it listed as Mixed. I will say it isn't Arkane's best title, that's definitely Prey. But not as good as the best work of one of the if not the greatest game studio of all time thus far (RIP Arkane) is still a banger. If it has any shortcomings it is that is not wholly what someone would expect going into it. It's not quite a full immersive sim, not quite an action adventure game, not quite and RPG, and not quite a meditative analysis on the nature of time and life. Those elements are all present. But if you try and cram it to your expectations, it is you who is trapped in the loop. Very good game. Not at full price these days. But excellent pick on a sale.

After installing a really outdated video driver this game reportedly runs on, I had a fun almost 2 hours. But to get the game to run in the first place, I had to install said outdated video driver. That meant my PC could not run other games as well anymore. Every single time I've tried to run this game with up-to-date drivers, it has failed to launch. Devs please fix, this game isn't even worth the $12 it costs on sale right now.

Most disappointed I've ever been with a game, no exaggeration. I had high hopes after dishonored, and a timeloop to solve is always fun right? Well, the solution is spelled out for you like a baby. The enemy AI is so terrible it might as well not exist. The only challenge comes from PVP invasions, with terrible netcode and the ability to dash everywhere constantly, making them a total disaster too. At it's current price of 80% off you might have enough fun to justify it but, if you're like me you'll just be left thinking about how much potential is wasted here.

Good production values but the game was fairly easy and the loop gets old after a while. It is NOTHING like the Dishonored games. I will rate this a 7/10.

A game with a lot of text but very little to say. I enjoyed the gameplay, but I speedran the last few parts. Should have ended a little earlier, should have [spoiler]left less questions unanswered[/spoiler]. Had a good time, but the bar was set so incredibly high by the dishonored series that it was basically impossible to reach. Get it on sale.

concept is cool but it's not polished enough to execute well. Bugs are not rare. Enemies can randomly see through walls sometimes which makes stealth frustrating. I got stuck in the main menu halfway through a loop with no way to get out besides quit the game. Not worth imo

The game just doesnt feel right for me, guns feel weak (sound, animations, enemy ragdolls, etc), and the optimization is really bad...

Game is "stupid broken!" Play once go back to play again and game will not start. After all these years no solution. Don't buy unless you want to chance it. Game is fun if you can get it to work.

Just fucking stupendous. Charming diolouge an engaging and thoughtful implementation of the groundhog-day plot paired with addicting comprehensive gameplay. Honestly cant reccomend enough

No longer runs. I pay for a game on a platform for it to 'just work'. Doesn't. It used to but the hoops to jump through from online forums ... I just want to install and play.

Excellent game. For fans of dishonored, this is what youre looking for

Good story and gameplay, but the multiplayer is horrendous. It is extremely laggy most of the time, I think because the person you are invading becomes the server host and unless you are close geographically to that person you will not be able to move, that's how laggy it is.

Gameplay - 6.5/10 Graphics - 8.6/10 Audio - 10/10 Story - 10/10 Controls - 8/10 Character - 10/10 Game menu - 2/10 My recommendation for playing this game is to treat it like a sandbox game like Gary's Mod or GTA; have fun messing with the different magic super powers and different weapon loadout. Need smarter NPCs, smarter enemies. The optional side quests and puzzles are really fun. People who enjoy FPS games will find this game disappointing because the enemies are braindead pretty much. People who enjoy single player games will like the set design and environment but find the quest/progression system lacking. People who enjoy Arkane games will be disappointed that we got this instead of Dishonored 3. The story is good and the characters are great. Just the structure of the game holding it back.

Interesting concept. Slight little glitch events, but nothing that ruins the game play. Overall great game with puzzles and adventure.

This game plays like a less stealthy dishonoured, with multiplayer and puzzle elements. Another GOAT from Arkane. Just wish I got the game sooner so I could play more and have more invasions when I played the campaign.

It’s not like Dishonoured. I’d recommend it if you’re a fan of time loop games, I really enjoyed it, but it is noticeably worse than what Arkane is known for.

I enojoyed it. 7.5/10. Load times are annoying, recommend playing single player or friends only.

Deathloop. Think of it like a large escape room with many characters to explore

Turn off all the notifications in the game, grab your paper and pencil and experience a 10/10 puzzle-immersive sim. The same niveau as Prey or Dishonored but totally different. Also, keep Online on since real player Juliannas are the best.

Everyone should play this game. It's features are incongruent, it's UI outside of gameplay is strange, it's replayability is limited, it's online features are strangely conceived, it's enemy designs are nothing special. By god the sum of it's parts though. Just a stunning game with an uncompromising vision, fun gunplay, exceptional writing, and an incredible story. Healed my marriage, walked my dog, prevented 9/11. This game did it all. Timeloops, baby.

This game is awful. I genuinely regret not returning this. The hand-holding is insulting and the game play is embarrassingly lacking. There is clearly no thought to the concepts of mechanics gone into this, just a general idea that is VERY interesting on paper but blatantly fumbled. The menu is horrible, the constant tutorial popups are frustrating, the UI organization is unbearable, the game itself just isnt that fun. What a joke of a game. From the studio that made Prey, I expected so much better. This is not it.

this game is like if dishonored was made by Ubisoft. well, perhaps not dishonored, but this is the most muddled confusing tooltip ubisofty thing Arkane has ever spawned and I could not get hooked whatsoever. It also feels so damn floaty. Like there's no weight in the gameplay, if that makes any sense. And there's so many damn screens. It's just such a pain to look at

It's a fine game, but its extremely frustrating that I can't save in between zones. That means I have to re-do the entire zone if I don't finish it, which becomes tedious when a RL issue comes up and forces me to stop early. Other games have figured this process out, so this was a (bad) design choice on their part.

3.6/10 – You have to downgrade your graphics card driver to make a mediocre game with outdated visuals playable. I know the game likely shines in PvP rather than the single-player campaign, but since you’re forced to play the campaign to unlock PvP, here are my impressions from the first two hours: - The graphics are very outdated. I recently played Doom 3 and Myst IV—both had far more atmosphere and artistic depth. - Movement and especially aiming are sluggish, almost as if everything is soaked in soap—but I eventually got used to it. - The menus are clunky and confusing. - Trinkets, weapon charms, and all the "skill-stuff" seem shoehorned in and largely unnecessary. - About 40 minutes in, the game introduces stealth mechanics that come off as a poor imitation of Rogue Warrior. Even Hitman or Metal Gear Solid (1) handled stealth more effectively. - Around the 60-minute mark, I encountered random crashes labeled "Access Violation." Troubleshooting took another hour, which meant I couldn’t refund the game. Long story short: you have to use the NVIDIA 572.16 driver. Newer versions may cause random crashes or prevent the game from loading entirely. - After fixing the crashes and finally completing the level I was stuck in, I opted to play literally any other shooter instead. This was probably the last time I bought a Bethesda game. Period. EDIT: Next gen? F U man! F, U!

Think of this either as: dishonored crossed with groundhog day or an fps version of the legend of zelda Majora's Mask. Either way, highly recommend giving this a play.

Fun game, I enjoyed the gameplay and story.

CURRENTLY UNPLAYABLE The real death loop is "Access violation error 0xC0000005": took me 2 days to even launch the game (had to install an old Nvidia driver and turn off specific settings), and when it finally seemed to run properly it randomly crashed, deleting all my progress. Last time after I killed a player Julianna and made serious loot - all gone. This isn't fun. Don't buy this game until they fix it (if they ever will). I never experienced anything like this in 18 years on Steam, shame on you for wasting my time and money like that 🖕

I liked the story a lot, but not enough to make up for the gameplay. The optimization is so shit, the cooler sent my PC into space. The gameplay itself reminded me of Apex Legends, which isnt really my thing. I got the game on sale and I still think the 10€ weren't worth it. I suggest you just watch a playthrough

Game is good, I really like this game, but if you don't the idea of constantly trying to go through runs to find more info then this isn't for you, and that's okay! This game really falls flat at the end for me due to the repetitiveness at the end, that's where it set in for me. I completed this game on Xbox before here but I'm planning to play it and complete it here without a few months break like I did there. Edit: If you try to go for 100% on this game make sure to put your V-sync on to 60fps for the online mode, if you do not you'll constantly rubber band and constantly die to Colt. This is a solution that works MOST of the time, but doesn't fix it fully.

Guaranteed Arkane quality, especially in its map and environment design. Beautiful world. Story is both exciting and philosophically engaging. As you begin to understand the world you're in, you'll start to question your own reality and the choices you make, as kafkaesque ending approaches.

Interesting concept that I think was done really well. Quite fun, even if you just play in offline mode.

Brilliant game. If you loved Dishonored or Prey, I think you will love this too. It's a tiny bit more confusing at the beginning, but once you get the hang of it, it's so much fun. I loved the world that they created and the characters are fantastic! Awesome stealth combat (my favorite) - get the silenced Limp and you will be in stealth heaven.

"Press enter" presses enter on number pad - nothing happens. Later, "nope, don't need it" "don't get greedy colt" then game crashes. I like the idea of the game but this game needs a lot of tlc to be any good.

Tedious. Repetitive. Insufferable characters. Surprisingly unfun gameplay. Huge disappointment from Arkane.

have to play singleplayer to be able to play multiplayer. not for me

great game. sooooooo underrated

enter an area, die to a mine, repeat

A charming little adventure

I enjoyed this game. Dishonored vibes for sure.

ARKANE GAMES SO GOOD GAMES As usual

Excellent Arkane game