DEATHLOOP | Finding the PPB to Destroy the Loop

Hello gamers, how's everyone doing? Hope you're all great. I'm still deep into DEATHLOOP and the story keeps getting more and more interesting with every session. Colt is genuinely one of the most fearless and relentless characters I've come across in a while — this guy doesn't care what's thrown at him, he just keeps pushing forward. His mission is clear: recover his memory piece by piece and, ultimately, break the loop once and for all. And as you advance through the story, you start to understand just how much of a puzzle that really is. Every single day that resets, Colt wakes up on that beach and has to pick up where his mind left off, following threads of clues that slowly start to reconstruct everything that happened and everything he's forgotten. It's a grind, but an incredibly satisfying one when things start connecting.

In DEATHLOOP You Can Just Run Without Killing and Reach Certain Objectives

One of the things that genuinely surprised me as I got deeper into DEATHLOOP is realizing just how flexible the gameplay really is. And I mean that in a very real, practical sense. There are moments in this game where the smartest move isn't to go in guns blazing or even to take the stealth route and eliminate everyone quietly. Sometimes the best move is simply to run. Just sprint through, dodge everything, avoid every enemy, skip the fight entirely, and get to your objective as fast as possible.

And the game fully supports this. You don't always need to engage. You don't always need to clear a room. Sometimes you have a specific goal in a specific location and the fastest path there is just moving through the chaos without stopping to deal with it. This kind of freedom in how you approach each run is something Arkane really nailed with DEATHLOOP. It plays very differently from something like Dishonored, where your decisions about how lethal you were actually affected the world. Here, since nobody truly dies permanently thanks to the loop, you're free to choose your approach based purely on what makes sense for the moment. Feeling aggressive? Tear through everything with your best weapons. Need to be precise? Stealth your way in. In a hurry and just need to grab something and get out? Run. All of it is valid, and that range of options makes the game feel genuinely open in a way that keeps it fresh loop after loop.

Recovering the PPB Before Juliana Does

So, here's where things got really heated for me. In one of the missions, the objective becomes recovering the PPB — a key piece of the puzzle that Colt needs to move forward in understanding how to dismantle the loop. And of course, it wouldn't be DEATHLOOP if there wasn't a massive catch attached to something that important. Because as you push toward getting it, it becomes clear that Juliana is also after the same thing, and she is absolutely not going to sit back and let Colt walk away with it.

This created one of the most tense and genuinely stressful runs I've had in the game so far. The PPB isn't just lying around waiting for you to grab it. You have to navigate through a hostile environment, read the situation correctly, and move fast enough that you stay ahead of Juliana's interference. And if you've been playing long enough, you already know that Juliana is never something you can take lightly. Whether it's the AI version or an actual player invading your game, she has the tools, the powers, and the aggressive energy to completely derail a run if you let her. So the race to secure the PPB becomes this incredibly focused, high-stakes sprint where every second counts and every wrong move could hand her the advantage.

Getting there first felt like a genuine victory. Not the flashy, explosive kind, but the kind where you exhale after realizing you made it and she didn't. That quiet, tense satisfaction is something DEATHLOOP does really well — it makes the small wins feel significant because the path to reaching them is never easy or predictable.

What Comes Next… Killing the Visionaries

So with the PPB secured and the pieces continuing to fall into place, the road ahead is starting to become a lot clearer. And what lies at the end of all this investigation and running and surviving and clue-gathering is the real endgame: taking down the Visionaries. All eight of them. In a single day. Without dying.

These aren't just random tough enemies. The Visionaries are the architects and guardians of the loop itself — scientists, party animals, assassins and artists, each of them terrified of death and completely committed to keeping the cycle going forever. Each one is found in a specific district at a specific time of day, and each one comes loaded with powerful weapons and unique abilities called Slabs that you can actually take from them after killing them. That means hunting down the Visionaries isn't just a story requirement — it's also the main way you build up Colt's arsenal and power set loop after loop. Kill them enough times and you start farming their upgrades, which slowly turns Colt from a confused guy on a beach into a genuinely dangerous machine capable of pulling off the perfect loop.

The complexity of fitting all eight kills into a single day, while managing time periods, districts, Juliana invasions, and your own survival, is exactly the kind of challenge that I can tell is going to demand everything I've built up so far. And I honestly can't wait to get into it. So gamers, stay tuned because things are about to get a whole lot more intense. I'll keep you updated as the loop continues. See you in the next one!