10 Games To Play If You Like Deathloop

The hottest game out right now, Deathloop has been available for about a week, and though many players might have completed it within a few days, it is endlessly replayable. Being that time repeats itself in the game and there are changes to each area of the subarctic island Blackreef depending on the time of day, there’s so much to explore and uncover.

However, there are other obsessed gamers that have upturned every rock and found every secret that Deathloop has to offer, and they are now searching for other similar games. Between time loop-based puzzle games, colorful first-person shooters with the same tone, and stealth games from the same minds behind Deathloop, there are so many gems for fans to discover.

10 The Dishonored Series (2012-2017)

Deathloop is essentially Dishonored with a different skin, which makes sense considered that they were developed by Arkane Studios. The series is set in the plague-stricken 1800s, but aside from that, the two games are uncanny. Both have almost identical art styles and allow players to choose whether to approach each level stealthily or in an all-out gun battle.

However, Dishonored does lean more into the stealth, as there’s no avoiding some of the shootouts in Deathloop. And where Deathloop gives players fun abilities, such as switching places with NPCs, Dishonored has even more strange supernatural powers at the player’s disposal. There are even links between Dishonored 2 and Deathloop, hinting that they could be in the same universe.

9 Hitman II (2018)

The Hitman series lacks any of the supernatural abilities that Deahtloop has, but it is one of the most inventive stealth games that exist. If gamers are picking up Deathloop for the creative ways to get around maps unnoticed and prefer to use strategy and logic instead of running through guns blazing, Hitman II is the perfect follow-up.

The game sees players attempt to take down targets in the most creative ways possible, and they can dress Agent 47 in all sorts of disguises to keep his true identity from being revealed. The three latest games make up the World of Assassination trilogy and are all great, but Hitman II has the best replay value due to the hilarious disguises and how expansive the maps are.

8 12 Minutes (2021)

While 12 Minutes isn’t a first-person game due to the topdown perspective, it is a time loop that has players attempting to solve a mystery. The game is almost entirely based in one small apartment, as a couple gets into trouble with the police when one is accused of murder.

What’s great about the independent game is that it was influenced by movies as much as it was by games, typically the works of David Fincher, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick. It even has movie stars voice the characters, including James McAvoy and Daisy Ridley. The game is a psychological thriller that’s better than a lot of movies in the genre.

7 The Borderlands Series (2009-2019)

Borderlands doesn’t have any stealth, in fact, it’s the complete opposite, as the game is full of psychotic characters out to kill everyone, but stealth is virtually the only difference the two games have. The first-person shooter series has some striking similarities to Deathloop.

For anybody who admires the creative and unique artillery in the 2021 game, they’ll love the Borderlands franchise. Creative and colorful weaponry is the series’ bread and butter. Not only that, but both games take place in mostly barren but inventive wastelands too. The tone and aesthetic of the Borderlands series and Deathloop are almost identical.

6 Portal 2 (2011)

Portal isn’t a stealth game, and though it’s technically a first-person shooter, as it’s in the first-person perspective and sees players shooting portals at walls, it isn’t an FPS in the traditional sense.

However, despite this, fans of Deathloop would love Portal 2, as it’s a game that forces gamers to use their heads and the levels are essentially puzzles, just like the 2021 game. And similarly to Deathloop, Portal 2 can get severely frustrating with each respawn after failing the level. There are loads of brain-bending puzzle games like Portal that Deathloop fans would love too.

5 Prey (2017)

Just like Dishonored and Deathloop, Prey was also developed by Arkane Studios, and it shares many of the same gameplay mechanics too. Players have to get creative to overcome obstacles, it’s in a largely open-world environment, and this time players don’t have supernatural abilities, but they instead adopt the aliens’ abilities.

This time it isn’t a period setting, and it doesn’t take place in some barren wasteland, but it’s set in space in the future. Prey is as much of a survival horror game as it is a first-person shooter, especially if players pursue the game in a stealthier and more tactile approach.

4 The Sexy Brutale (2017)

The Sexy Brutale isn’t the most well-known game in the world, as it doesn’t have the mass appeal that a first-person shooter does. But the 2017 video game features the same type of puzzle gaming as Deathloop without all of the running and gunning.

The game is 12-hour loop of time inside a mansion where NPCs are getting brutally murdered one at a time, and players have to get to the bottom of what’s going on and save all the guests. The game resets every 12 hours, making players figure out everything that’s happening in different rooms of the mansion at precise times. It might not have the excitement of a triple-A game, but it has an intriguing story that’s way better than most.

3 Bioshock: Infinite (2013)

Like Deathloop, Bioshock: Infinite has an extraordinarily unique premise, as it’s a first-person shooter that takes place in a fictional city in the sky. It’s fast-paced, is full of one-of-a-kind weapons, and the locations are well-crafted and detailed, much like the pacing, weapons, and locations in Deahtloop.

The whole of sky city Columbia is available for players to explore, and though it’s in the clouds, it does have a similarly colorful art style to Deathloop. What’s more is that Infinite has a better narrative than most movies too, though it might be worth playing the first Bioshock game first.

2 Outer Wilds (2019)

Like The Sexy Brutale, Outer Wilds sees players repeating a 22-minute time loop over and over, gaining knowledge that will help them progress with each loop. The game follows an astronaut who is exploring a solar system, and the aim is to find out why its sun goes supernova every 22 minutes, which is what resets the loop.

Again, there is no combat in Outer Wilds, as the central gameplay is all focused on exploration. Though the game had a low budget, it has an ambitious premise, and it surprisingly pays off with a mind-blowing ending.

1 Thief II (2000)

Given that Dishonored’s gameplay system was inspired by the Thief series, so was Deathloop’s by extension. Thief II: The Metal Age is what inspired so many games of its nature. Its large maps that can be tackled in several different ways worked as a blueprint for the likes of Hitman, Dishonored, and now Deathloop.

There is less combat in the 2000 game compared to Deathloop, as Thief II is more steered towards stealth, and the mechanics were so far ahead of their time too. Players can use their surroundings to their advantage, they had to observe the patterns of the patrolling NPCs, and even noises played a big role in the game too.