DEATHLOOP
Skip · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $59.99.
- Length
- 16.4h
- Value
- $3.66/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 57% over the last 30 days against 76% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 580 (8GB), 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was November 2023. It has been discounted 37 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ ($29.99, scores 49) outscores it, and so does Dishonored ($9.99, scores 98). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 87 against 76 percent.
Players rate it 76 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 57 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 19 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 2,324 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (time-limited); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 16.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 36, 2.2 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
89% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
73 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I loved it. I enjoyed the story and figuring stuff out on my own. I was so motivated to finish this game. The fact that you can try different approaches, I get that some people found elements of it to be repetitive, but I feel like it was the point.. It's literally a loop... lol I didn't try all the abilities, since I am more of a sneaky player myself so I was too comfortable teleporting and turning invisible, to...
~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it ✅ Easy 🔲 Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 Dark Souls ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Graphics dont matter in this game 🔲 Good ✅ Beautiful ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad 🔲 Not special 🔲 Good ✅ Eargasm ~ STORY ~ 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Like playing Temple Runners for the story 🔲 It's there for the people who want it ✅ Well written 🔲 Epic story ~ PRICE ~ 🔲 Free 🔲 Underpriced ✅ Perfect...
Honestly, I played this at release thinking it was going to another quality Arkane Game. It was a neat game with a cool concept. Ran pretty poorly but meh, modern games amirite. As of right now, its not playable. Literally. I installed this to give it another playthrough and it won't even launch. I can't imagine Arkane will even return to fix it. Disappointing
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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DEATHLOOP scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1252330/deathloopThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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