Black Games Archive

Context, Culture, and Representation


DEATHLOOP

Developer: Arkane Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Release Year: 2021
Platform: PS5/Win/Xbox Series X/S
Genre: FPS
Taxonomy: Playable Black Characters; Black NPCs; Voice Acting/motion capture; Black Cultural Traditions; mechanics; Narrative themes

Set in an alternate world resembling the 1960s, it takes place over the course of a single repeating day on the island of Blackreef. You play as Colt, an assassin stuck in a time loop tasked to take out eight targets before midnight and end the loop.

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