The island is broken into four districts, and the day is broken up into four time periods: morning, noon, afternoon, and evening.
Your goal is to break that loop, and the only way to do so is by killing the eight Visionaries-the people who built the loop so they could live out an endless party-in a single day. You’re trapped on the island of Blackreef, where the same day repeats itself over and over on an infinite loop, whether you live or die. I promise you, it’s as short as I can make it. So what follows is a high-level overview of what Deathloop actually is. Please try to understand this so you will buy it. There’s a reason every trailer feels like three minutes of desperately explanatory narration over slick graphics and gameplay footage. Majora’s Mask meets Dark Souls, also with guns ?Įvery traditional, cliched approach to summing it up in a nutshell fails me. It’s a first-person stealth-action narrative shooter with roguelike elements, I guess, but that doesn’t sound quite right. Thus the “Oh boy.”Īrkane Studios’ latest is, to put it mildly, a complicated game to explain. But before I tell you why it’s great, I have to tell you what it is. Deathloop has already cemented itself as one of my favorite games of the past few years.