The main menu is basically an evidence board that lets you track all of the information for each visionary, so that you’re tackling everything in a series of small steps. This probably sounds pretty confusing, and it is, but the game does an incredible job of easing you along so you don’t get overwhelmed. It’s one big puzzle you slowly piece together The twist is that he has to kill them all in a single day without dying. In order to do so, he needs to kill Julianna and seven “visionaries” from Blackreef. Colt, naturally, does not, and decides he’s going to stop the loop once and for all. A few, like Julianna, keep their memories from loop to loop, and have decided that they want to keep things the way they are. Quickly he learns that Blackreef is run by a homicidal woman named Julianna and that its residents relive the same day in a loop. It starts when Colt wakes up on a beach of what turns out to be an island called Blackreef, which looks like a supervillain’s lair from the 1960s. I’ll do my best to summarize Deathloop’s premise, but it’s not easy.
It’s that mystery that will help pull you through the same day repeatedly, digging through dangerous locations in search of scraps of crucial information to hopefully make the next loop just a little easier. You aren’t just fighting to survive, you’re doing it to learn new information that will help you unravel the strange and complex mystery at the heart of the game. (Between this, Twelve Minutes, and Returnal, I’m not sure what it is with game developers and time loops lately.) This conceit turns Deathloop into a game where investigation is as important as combat.
What makes the game so interesting is its structure, which has players - in the role of an assassin named Colt - reliving the same day over and over again. That’s just the start with Deathloop, though. On a moment-to-moment basis it’s as tense, thrilling, and creative as any Arkane release should be. And Deathloop most certainly fits into that lineage, with its stealth-focused exploration, supernatural abilities, and open-ended gameplay that almost always gives you a handful of ways to tackle a problem. It’s the latest release from Arkane Studios, a studio best known for helping keep the lineage of “immersive sims” alive through first-person action games like Dishonored and Prey. Deathloop is the first game to make me risk my life for an audiolog.
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