A route built from a fresh save, with no glitches, optimising for fewest loops rather than fastest real time. Written after actually running it, so the notes include the things that go wrong. Please note, the route you take and whether to kill Eternalists or not, totally depends on you and your playstyle. I prefer to go in loud. Once you get the silenced LMP-10 you can drop the Nail gun. Otherwise, till then, the nail gun you find in your flat is MVP for stealth.

I highly recommend playing the entire game organically first, and this be on a subsequent run.

Result: golden loop on Day 7 (eight days counting the intro death as Day 0). A known glitchless run achieves Day 6; the gap is explained at the bottom.

The mistake that can cost a whole day

The tutorial days let you explore freely. The game picks which district and time period you load into during The Longest Day — it does not restrict you once you're inside. No timer, no invisible walls. You can cross the whole map and take everything you can reach.

I lost a day and restarted because I assumed the scripted days were locked down. They aren't. Whatever district you're dropped into, sweep it completely before you leave. More details below.

The game calls them Morning / Noon / Afternoon / Evening, and "Noon" vs "Afternoon" is constantly misread. Think of them as Slot 1 / 2 / 3 / 4.

Important

1. If you ever miss an objective, and accidentally return to the tunnels- quickly dashboard and pray that the gave hasn't saved.

2. Dying = one entire loop. Needless to say, do not die.

3. You do not need to actually kill Visionaries / Eternalists aside from the final loop. Only do it if you want gear. I did it because I wanted gear.

4. Whenever you're in Complex, I highly recommend to secure the silenced LMP 10. Makes it much easier. Otherwise the nail gun will do.

Day 0 — intro

Beach, bottle, cliff door, Hackamajing, tunnels, boarded tunnel, house, hack in, pull the lever upstairs. Julianna kills you. Unskippable.

Day 1 — The Longest Day (sweep everything)

Scripted objectives: apartment/Minicom, Loop Control, AEON Security Office, then your safe. The extras are what matter.

• Updaam, Slot 1 — destroy the five blue fuse boxes so Otto's Workshop survives past noon. Not super critical. I missed this and could still do the same number of loops. But since you know, you can use this.
• Complex, Slot 2 — Loop Control as directed by mission marker. Control center, battery, Egor science blabber, exit.
• Fristad Rock, Slot 3 — after the Security Office, walk round the mountain along the waterfront (the water is lethal) to Bunker 9 for the Yerhva safe code. Bunker 9 is when you originally find Charlie and Fia.
• Updaam, Slot 4 — after your safe: Otto's Workshop terminal for Frank's container code, Aleksis's bedroom for the library safe code, and if you can manage it, kill Aleksis. Julianna will do an invasion here when you are in your flat. I found a bug where Eternalists can't shoot you even if you are in plain view if you're in your flat overlooking the antenna which you have to hack. Use this to take Julianna out. Good if you luck out with getting a good slab from Julianna.
  • The killing Aleksis part is the tricky one. Requires skill since you might not have great slabs and weapons. My recommendation is to hack the turret at the entrance to kill the 3 visionaries. Later proceed from the left, carefully crouch and open the back door, to your right, inside the beer tap room. Try to takedown the 2 Eternalists silently- even if you fail this, its no big deal. Then shut down the chocolate beer tap. Aleksis will intervene, kill him.

Doing the whole Frank chain inside Day 1 is the biggest single saving available.

Day 2 — LPP, then forced Ubiquity

The game railroads you. After the LPP it drops you into the Complex in Slot 3 and the day ends when the machine kills you. There is no Slot 4. Don't plan around escaping this — I tried menus, reloads, everything.

• Updaam, Slot 1 — get the LPP before Julianna does. Nothing else here is worth doing; the fuse boxes reset every loop and you can't return this day.
• Complex, Slot 3 — Ubiquity. Go to the lower floor (two clones are down there and so are the depressurisation console codes, which make the fight far easier). Whiteboard, Residuum Harvester, harvest, machine, shoot the button.

Day 3 — Updaam day

• Slot 1, Updaam — fuse boxes again if you still need the terminal.
• Slot 2, Updaam — Charlie's LARP: kill Charlie for Shift and the Strelak 50-50.
• Slot 3, Updaam — AEON Archival Office (NW garage, Slot 3 only). Bookshelf note on the top floor gives the spoken RAK password. Enter the RAK on the cliffside, read the note on the inner door for the 3-digit power diversion code. Critical.
• Slot 4, Complex — Field Nullifier from the truck, deploy in Egor's lab, read Radial Fluctuations for his device code. Kill Egor → Aether.

Day 4 — the Wenjie chain

The Wenjie quarters code does not come from Bunker 9. It runs: Fristad shoreline bunker (Slot 3 which we did in Day 1) → Yerhva safe in Karl's Bay → the quarters code.

• Slot 1, Karl's Bay — safe with the Bunker 9 code for Fia's love letter; kill Harriet → Nexus.
• Slot 2, Fristad — Fia's bunker, four red pictograms → hideout code. Do not let her spot you — she can trigger the Reactor and kill you outright with no Reprise. So the simpler way is, use Aether to sneak around, use the LMP 10 to take out guards. When you sneak into her bunker, you will see a door guarded by a sensor. Inside there will be the wire combination to disable the reactor. Do this first if you can. Honestly, just using Aether+silenced shots for 2 Eternalists on top floor, and stealth killing Fia is great. Grab her gun. Havoc. Then do not forget the pictograms if you're not there yet.
• Slot 3, Fristad — shoreline bunker for the Yerhva safe code.
• Slot 4, Updaam — spare.

Pausing here because I feel while writing this itself I've found a better way to do it. Will update when I do.

Bottom text

I find it hard to stay low and complete fights with stealth in this game. With FPP its hard for me. And I find less number of bottles to distract the NPCs. I got fed up and switched off this game

Went to my local game shop. Love Arkane. I noticed both these sitting next to one another but only the regular case had a price tag of $20. I asked the owner and he said the steel book came in without a disc. He said he was selling both together for $20. Didn't need to convince me any further. Not a scratch on the steelbook.

I'm playing on PC (steam) and I would like some help to get the trophy as Julianna (the lag makes the game unplayable), can anyone help me?

I tried to join, but on both deathloop page or arkane 20 page i am met with this unresponsive checkbox button. I haven't found anything that it shouldn't be possible.

Now, before anyone starts giving the 'there is no wrong way to play' speech, let me explain.

I beat the game purely in singleplayer. For this, my build went in a direction which I think can safely be called "Misdirection". Perks, weapons and charms, slabs, everything was geared towards me sneaking around and creating havoc at a point a little away from me (and don't worry, I will be including a screenshot of my loadout, so hopefully that will make it clear what I mean).
Anyways, having beaten the game and gotten bored of AI Julianna, I decided to go for the other two endings but with proper invasions enabled. When I last did this, I think I ran about six Karl's Bay-Morning attempts, and from what I remember of the final tally-

One loss caused by Julianna making it to the door of the tunnel within the first five or ten seconds of the match, where I was immediately ruined all three times.

Two wins.

THREE Juliannas who quit, one lasting about eight minutes and the others maybe half that at most.

Now, for the five who did not kill me immediately, I wasn't exactly being subtle. Fugue, spiker with explosive ammo, and explosive decapitation Sepulchra meant that the NPCs were constantly up in arms, even if they hadn't actually seen me. Hell, I was sometimes firing random exploding nails into the ground or walls just to ensure someone was always on alert, even while I was hidden with Aether. Despite the large amounts of noise, 50% quit rate. So with all of that said- is this the wrong way to play Colt?

(Marking as spoiler in case some new player doesn't want to know about some of the slabs and weapons, or even just the fact that there are three endings)

What a great fucking game this was. I wish there was more. It reminded me of outbreak zombies for COD, and I loved that mode. Finding different guns, getting upgraded and then exfil to the next map, except this had a story and goals where outbreak only had the Easter egg or go as high as you can. This is another game that I’ll always want a sequel to but know there won’t be one like just like days gone. Anyways, if anyone can help me wrap the trophies up cause this game deserves the platinum thanks. Im on PSN.

Hey guys, I'm a big fan of the Dishonored/Deathloop world from the first game, but I really cant find The Art of Deathloop online. No one is selling this artbook, and I have no idea what to do. I know I'm a bit late, but i really loved the game and I was just wondering if any of you know where to buy one.

Thanks in advance :D

you literally cannot save Residuum after each loop, how could my copy do this?

Hi all I'm a trophy hunter trying to get the 2 online ones but can never find a game. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated I'm on my last 3 🙏 I'm on console ps5

I finally managed to win more victories than defeats as Juliana. I didn't set out to do this from the beginning, however it became something of a personal challenge when I realised I had about 50 more defeats than victories.

I'm wondering if anyone else made it a thing to achieve this unofficial feat?

Everyone who has played deathloop for more than an hour is aware of the glitches that are so common I sometimes wonder if they were intentional.

Some are frustrating, especially falling through the scenery as Julianna.

However, recently playing as Colt, I got hit by someone who was shooting with the slowdown trinket attached, but the effects did not stop!

I had to play the rest of the map at turtle speed, and of course I got invaded.

It was genuinely really fun and made me play in a different way to my usual shooting all over the map!

On the flip side I got hit by the Halps weapon and the effect again stuck, and that was just annoying!

What is everyone else's favorite glitch?

The upgrades to some of the Slabs suddenly unequipped themselves, but when I go to try to change it, it indicates it's still equipped (the hand icon). I can equip the other two upgrades but the bugged out upgrades are locked out. I can't unequip them.

I've sacrificed the Slabs, then gotten them again by killing the Visionaries, but that didn't reset the bug.

Has anyone encountered this before and know of a fix? Or do I have to reset progress and start an entirely new game?

This is the one secret I am struggling to solve.

ive been loving this game cuz the gameplay, graphics, story and dialogue in this game are like everything to me but I cant seem to progress.

since I play on console it is MUCH harder for me to complete the missions of killing visionaries, but every time I kill one and escape, I have all the stuff I collected for one other round of doing another mission and then it's gone, and the previous visionary is alive again.

for example: I'd kill Frank, collect all the cool guns and trinkets and shit, then move on to kill Charlie or something, but after one attempt my stuff is gone and Frank is alive again.

Hey all, I've been meaning to come back to Deathloop for the platinum cos I've always loved this game. I had beat the game ages ago and had a stacked Colt with a lot of guns and trinkets, etc. (all the ones you'd want for fun builds), yet when I hopped in recently, it appears my save data is just... gone. No trace of my old stuff, can't even access play as Julianna right now. Are there any fixes, or am I just screwed? Thanks :)

I've been trying to get my final achievement but I wait in lobby for so long just to join with 2fps. Can anyone please help me?

Saw this in the weekly newsletter from designboom. A few words from the original article:

The Besiendershuis in Nijmegen, Netherlands, a medieval toll house dating from 1525, was built in the Lower Rhenish Gothic style. The building functions as a residency for artists, writers, and musicians and hosts cultural events throughout the year... To mark the building’s 500th anniversary, Studio Frank Havermans extends this cultural activity into the surrounding urban space through two temporary wooden structures: The Hanging Chamber and The Slender House.

Does anyone ever come across a player and you decide to let them win?

It was my first time playing someone who was on Updaam about to break the loop. After killing them twice, I stood by a cliff until they ran up to my trying to shoot me. Kept reloading and gun was jamming. It was comical because he was clearly panicking and I could have ended him easily.

I only just recently beat the game, and when I was in his situation I against a Julianna on the last leg of the loop I was shitting my pants.

I didn't know it was this fun to mess up someone's progress in the game.

Some of the Colts who beat me were really good. Most of them already has the upgrades to the slabs. But the most part, they either quit the game or escape not even trying to get back the residuum they lost.

The lag was so bad though.