Dishonored: Deluxe Bundle

The Dishonored: Deluxe Bundle packages two titles from Arkane Studios' celebrated immersive-sim series: Dishonored 2 and the standalone follow-up Dishonored: Death of the Outsider. If you have never spent time in this universe, the short version is this - these are first-person stealth-action games where the level design itself is the main event. You pick a target, you get a city block packed with guards, side routes, locked rooms, and supernatural powers, and then you figure out how you want to handle the situation. Lethal, non-lethal, loud, ghost-quiet, or some chaotic hybrid - the game genuinely accommodates all of it. Dishonored 2 is the centerpiece here and it earns that status. You choose to play as either Empress Emily Kaldwin or her father Corvo Attano, each with a distinct power set. Emily's Domino ability chains enemies together so that what happens to one happens to all, while her Far Reach pulls her across gaps like a phantom limb. Corvo brings the familiar Blink teleport and his returning toolkit. The real stars, though, are specific missions that push the immersive-sim format to its limits. The Clockwork Mansion reshuffles its own walls at the pull of a lever, turning the entire level into a shifting puzzle. "A Crack in the Slab" hands you a device that flips between past and present versions of the same manor mid-stride, letting you slip through blocked paths or sneak past guards who only exist in one timeline. These missions alone justify the series' reputation. The complaint most often leveled at Dishonored 2 is that difficulty drops off in the back half - once you have a full power loadout, the challenge doesn't keep pace. That's real, but it barely dents the fun of the toolbox itself. Death of the Outsider is a shorter, tighter standalone chapter built on the same engine. You play as Billie Lurk - voiced by Rosario Dawson - a former assassin chasing down the god-like Outsider alongside her old mentor Daud (voiced by Michael Madsen). Billie's power set is smaller than Emily's or Corvo's, but it has its own logic. Foresight lets her detach from her body entirely to scout ahead and mark targets, while her version of the Blink teleport works by placing a silhouette first, then triggering the jump - useful for planning ahead, slightly awkward in a pinch. The Chaos morality system from previous games is absent here, which removes the pressure to play clean and opens the door to messier runs. The standout mission is a bank heist in the middle of the campaign - intricate, self-contained, with multiple approaches including drugging an entire floor before you even set foot inside. Where Death of the Outsider falls short compared to Dishonored 2 is level variety; a couple of missions retread familiar street-level layouts that feel routine after the highs of the main game. The story wraps up the Kaldwin-era arc and delivers some genuinely interesting lore around the Outsider, even if the final stretch runs a little flat. Taken together this bundle is one of the best value propositions in the immersive-sim genre. Dishonored 2 alone offers two full playthroughs with meaningfully different power sets, and New Game Plus carries your build into a second run. Death of the Outsider adds a focused 10-15 hour campaign that rewards replaying individual missions with self-imposed constraints via its custom difficulty mode. The games are not for players who want clear waypoints and linear action - the appeal is in being given a space and deciding how to take it apart. If that sounds like your thing, this bundle covers a lot of ground.

Alex · Scout Team

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