DEATHLOOP

DEATHLOOP

Skip · Roguelike · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 41, under the fair line, at $59.99.

Cost per hour
$3.66/hr
Reviews▼
76% of 30,567
Critics
87 players 11 lower
Genre rank
Top 61% Roguelike

Holding it back: DRM, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
16.4h
To 100%
36h 2.2x the story
Achievements
58

Price and sales

Sales
38 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$11.99 November 2023
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now $10.79 at Fanaticalall-time low $9.60 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
57 now
Recent reviews
75% 30 days
Cheaper than
1% of its genre
Better reviewed
38% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

89% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 38 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dishonored®: Death of the Outsider™ ($29.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Zero Hour ($9.99, scores 35).

More about DEATHLOOP

The press liked it more than its buyers did, 87 against 76 percent.

19 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 2,320 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationTime-limited
Paid extras, but no loot boxes or currency. A light touch
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds19 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesTime-limitedPCGamingWiki

What players say

This game feels like being inside the mind of someone with ADHD. At the beginning of the game, you're given a lot of leads and codes to discover, and you don't know where to start because there's no obvious starting point. That's exactly how my mind works. But once you finally decide to start figuring out the code to a door, you might end up having to find the code to another door that you need to unlock before you...
MDCRecommendedafter 53hOct 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
DEATHLOOP is my exact kind of game. Stealthy combat with an emphasis on melee, puzzles, information gathering, and incredible voice acting. There's extreme variety in strategy and upgrade paths and powers that let you build your own. The Juliana feature is one that keeps levels from ever getting stale, and the fact it can be turned off is a major boon that keeps it from becoming annoying. Super solid game and tons...
WhimsyfluffRecommendedafter 30hOct 2026Read on Steam
the game is good to a point but its frustrating because it does not make sense what your to do. when i saw this game i was thinking it would be like a fast paced dishonored. its both good and bad but after trying it again i give up i have no idea what he plotline is or how to even progress. 4out of 10.
elcantrazNot recommendedafter 14hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

Cite this score

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DEATHLOOP scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1252330/deathloop
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-11
Critics87
Players76
Metacritic critics · 30,567 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperArkane Studios
PublisherBethesda Softworks
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements58