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5Deathloop is a 2021 action-adventure game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was released on September 14, 2021 for Microsoft Windows and as a timed exclusive for the PlayStation 5.
In Deathloop, the player takes on the role of Colt, an assassin stuck in a time loop who has been tasked to take out eight targets called Visionaries across the island before midnight, as leaving even one alive will cause the time loop to reset and undo his work. Further, should Colt die before taking out the eight targets, he will wake back up at the start of the loop. Unlike The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, another game with a time loop that runs in real time, the time loop in Deathloop is not strictly timed and is aimed to give players more time and freedom to take out these eight targets in one loop. The player uses a combination of stealth, parkour, attack skills, gadgets and powers as in Arkane's previous Dishonored and Prey games to move about the game world, avoid or take out guards, and learn the patterns of Colt's targets to figure out the right order to eliminate these using guns, melee attacks, or other environmental means.
The game features a multiplayer aspect in which the player can alternatively take the role of Julianna, an agent tasked to protect the time loop and take out Colt. When the player takes this role, they will enter a random player's game and may interfere with their play. The multiplayer portion is optional and players can prevent others from taking on the role of Julianna in their game, instead leaving this to a computer-controlled opponent to try to stop Colt.
Set in the 1960s, Deathloop takes place over the course of a single repeating day on the island of Blackreef, a former military base where strange experiments were once conducted. Blackreef is now controlled by the AEON Program, created by self-proclaimed "pseudoscientist" Egor Serling to use the island's unique properties to gain immortality by living in an infinite time loop. Serling attracted eight other eccentric and talented individuals to his cause, the Visionaries, and scores of young followers called Eternalists dedicated to serving them. Thanks to the time loop, the members of the AEON Program are able to hold a never-ending party where they can do anything they desire without fear of consequences, since the loop resets at midnight and restores everyone to their original state with no memories of the previous day.
Disrupting the natural flow of the loop are two of the Visionaries: Colt Vahn and Julianna Blake. Julianna discovered she was immune to the time loop's memory erasure and decided her life's purpose was to protect it, but she became bored and goaded Colt, the AEON Program's chief of security, into betraying the group and trying to break the loop to give herself a challenging opponent to hunt. Colt eventually develops the ability to retain his memories from each day as well and is able to learn the behaviors and patterns of the Visionaries and Eternalists. In order to break the loop, Colt is tasked with assassinating the other eight Visionaries scattered across Blackreef, including Julianna, in one day, since each of them possesses a device that allows the loop to continue resetting at the stroke of midnight. The Visionaries that Colt must kill include; Julianna Blake, the Archivist and the Head of Security, Egor Serling, Founder of the Aeon Program, Dr. Wenjie Evans, The Head Scientist in charge of researching the Loop, Harriet Morse, Leader of the Cult of Eternalists, Ramblin' Frank Spicer, former mob turned famous musician, Charlie Montague, Inventor and Head of Entertainment, Fia Zborowska, an artist and junkie, and Aleksis Dorsey, the Financial Backer of the Aeon Program and Party Animal.