Deathloop (2021)
Deathloop is a 2021 shooter video game made by Arkane Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
Two assassins are locked in a war on Blackreef, an island trapped in a single repeating day. You play Colt, who wants the loop broken, hunting eight targets whose deaths must all land before midnight resets everything. The design turns repetition into a puzzle: each run teaches you the island's schedules, secrets, and shortcuts, so knowledge becomes the real weapon. Stylish and mordant, all mod-60s color and swagger, it lets you solve each kill any way you like. Fail and you simply wake up on the same beach to try the day again.
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What is Deathloop about?
Two assassins are locked in a war on Blackreef, an island trapped in a single repeating day. You play Colt, who wants the loop broken, hunting eight targets whose deaths must all land before midnight resets everything. The design turns repetition into a puzzle: each run teaches you the island's schedules, secrets, and shortcuts, so knowledge becomes the real weapon. Stylish and mordant, all mod-60s color and swagger, it lets you solve each kill any way you like. Fail and you simply wake up on the same beach to try the day again.
When was Deathloop released?
Deathloop was released on 14 September 2021.
Who made Deathloop?
Deathloop was made by Arkane Studios and Bethesda Softworks.
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- Companion guide: Time Loops: The Complete Guide to Second Chances
A few thoughts on Deathloop
The loop structure invites the great time-repeat stories. Edge of Tomorrow runs on the same die-learn-improve rhythm, a soldier growing sharper with each reset. Groundhog Day supplies the wit and the existential itch of a day that will not end, while Russian Doll pushes the loop toward genuine mystery. Each one turns repetition into character, the way Deathloop does.
Living the same day until you get it right
Colt wakes on the same beach every time Blackreef resets, turning failure into homework instead of a game over. Groundhog Day invented the template, Edge of Tomorrow weaponizes it for combat, and Russian Doll turns it into dark comedy. Tezuka's Phoenix stretches the same idea across whole lifetimes, while The Time Traveler's Wife unsticks its hero from time in a gentler key.
Concept albums that build out a whole future
Deathloop scores its gunfights with warped 60s funk and psych-rock, turning violence into something closer to a groove. These albums chase that same full-world sci-fi swagger: Vangelis built Blade Runner's neon melancholy, Muse imagined a simulated future twice over on Simulation Theory and Black Holes and Revelations, Deltron 3030 raps through a dystopia, and Repo! stages its own rock opera apocalypse.