How Deathloop Works: Breaking Down Arkane’s Brilliant Game Design

Arkane Studios is a well-known brand that has gained a loyal following in the past decade. Its expertise is developing immersive sims – games that facilitate unpredictable stories and emergent gameplay through player choice, complex AI, persistent systems, and sandbox level design. Deathloop, like the best immersive sims encourages you use your robust toolkit to explore its various systems and environment to find different results. This allows you to figure out the best way to get through each place. However, unlike its predecessors Dishonored and Prey, Deathloop doesn’t have one specific mission, ability, or weapon that stands out as the best part of the adventure. Instead, it showcases how a game’s many elements can interact with one another to create a truly unique experience.

Specifically, the game’s level design and time of day system work together to create a setting that invites exploration and houses adaptive characters to provide consequences to player actions. Add in a consistent ruleset and shared design language that permeates every aspect of Deathloop, and you’ll understand why the title is one of the best releases of 2021.

There isn’t one particular thread greater than the rest. The Deathloop tapestry is a fascinating combination of gameplay and stories that has been woven together. My latest video essay explains Deathloop’s game design in order to help you better appreciate this game on PlayStation 5 as well as my favorite 2021 game.

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