Deathloop

Play it on: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows (Steam Deck OK)
Current goal: Finish a full loop.

Arkane is making a Blade game, which absolutely rules. This is the perfect development studio, outside of maybe an Insomniac Games or something, to bring the vampire slayer to the interactive world of video games. (Let’s ignore Redfall, OK? Until it’s fixed, that vampire shooter doesn’t exist.) The team hasn’t announced a release date yet, so we can assume it’s at least a few more years away. As such, I want to go through Arkane’s back catalog to finish some of the games I haven’t yet, starting with the 2021 time-bending first-person imsim shooter Deathloop

Deathloop was a hit when it launched in September 2021, garnering universal acclaim from critics. I dabbled in the island of Blackreef back then, shooting goons and sneaking past guards, but quickly dipped to return to Dishonored 2’s setting of Karnaca because I was halfway through that game. Deathloop lingered, though, begging me to give it another go, particularly because the game’s central characters, Colt and Julianna, are Black like me. And so, now that I’m done with Dishonored 2 (I still have Death of the Outsider to go through), I think it’s time I see my cousins—I mean, Colt and Julianna—duke it out in a never-ending…deathloop. I just hope that I can actually finish a run before getting my head’s sniped clean off. — Levi Winslow

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