Dishonored: Complete Collection

Dishonored: Complete Collection bundles together the Dishonored Definitive Edition (including its DLC campaigns The Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches), Dishonored 2, and the standalone expansion Death of the Outsider. What you're getting is a lineage of first-person immersive sims built around one unusually generous premise: almost every objective has multiple solutions, and the game tracks how violently you pursue them. The original Dishonored drops you into Dunwall, a plague-ravaged steampunk city, as Corvo Attano, a royal protector framed for the empress's murder. Your toolkit includes short-range teleportation via Blink, time-stop, rat swarms, and the ability to possess guards and animals. The chaos system reacts to your kill count, populating the world with more weepers and rats the bloodier you play, and nudging the story toward a darker ending. You can ghost through every mission without a single lethal takedown, or go loud with pistol and sword. Both feel equally intentional. Dishonored 2 is where the series really opens up. You pick your protagonist at the start: Corvo with his familiar Blink, Possession, and Bend Time, or Emily Kaldwin with a distinct set of tools including Far Reach, the Domino ability that links enemy fates together, Shadow Walk, and Mesmerize. The two playthroughs are mechanically different enough to justify running the game twice, and a New Game Plus mode even lets you mix both characters' powers. Level design is the series high point here, particularly the Clockwork Mansion with its shifting mechanical rooms, and Stilton's Manor, which lets you toggle between two points in time to manipulate the same physical space. Enemy AI is genuinely alert and aggressive, which makes a clean ghost run feel earned rather than easy. Death of the Outsider follows assassin Billie Lurk as she pursues the mysterious Outsider himself, armed with a wrist crossbow, short sword, an astral projection ability called Foresight, and a real-time displacement teleport. The chaos system is absent here, which removes some of the moral weight that made the first two games feel reactive, and the level count is shorter. A contracts system adds optional side objectives, and mana now regenerates automatically, which encourages more reckless power use. Critics found it a competent but narrower experience compared to its predecessors, and some levels recycle locations from Dishonored 2. It lands as a satisfying epilogue for series fans, less so as a standalone entry point. The rough edges across the trilogy are real. Dishonored 2 shipped with significant PC performance problems at launch, though those have been largely ironed out since. Enemy AI in the original game will occasionally spot you from improbable distances and then forget you exist two minutes later. Death of the Outsider's New Game Plus strips Billie's earned powers and substitutes a selection from Dishonored 2, which annoyed many players expecting a carry-forward. And the overall narrative framework, a betrayed protagonist fighting back against political usurpers, repeats across all three games without much variation. None of that kills the fun. The level design alone, the sheer density of player options in any given room, is worth the asking price several times over. This is the definitive way to buy into Arkane's stealth-action universe. Start with the original, take your time, and resist the urge to fight everyone you meet. The series rewards patience and curiosity more than almost anything else in the genre. Alex, Scout Team