Dishonored 2
Dishonored 2 is a PC role-playing game developed by Arkane Studios. It centers on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression, with controls and information arranged around keyboard and mouse, with a controller where the game supports one.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.6 / 10
About this game
Dishonored 2 is a PC role-playing game centered on area exploration, combat and party setup, and character progression. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while resolution, graphics settings, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio, text scaling, and hardware performance need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include OS and hardware requirements, installation media, patches, drivers, DRM and launchers, key binding and controller support, save locations, mod compatibility, servers, and era-specific OS compatibility affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Dishonored is Arkane’s first-person stealth-action series, set in industrial cities threaded with supernatural intrigue. Explore buildings and backstreets, combine powers with tools, and decide whether to slip past an obstacle, subdue someone or fight. Missions leave room for both careful planning and improvised solutions.
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Brilliant spaces and dual protagonists face serious launch-era PC friction.
Dishonored 2 on PC expands free-form infiltration through more intricate spaces. Emily and Corvo have different abilities, letting a target be approached from rooftops, concealed paths, environmental devices or direct combat. The Clockwork Mansion and shifting architecture make space itself a puzzle and give replay meaningful alternatives. Karnaca’s dust, light and interiors establish a vivid place, although the coup plot and some dialogue carry less force than its levels. Its PC technical history needs a precise boundary. Launch-period users encountered low frame rates and mouse trouble. On a documented Windows 10, i5-6600K and GTX 1070 review machine, the first beta patch eased mouse stutter, but colleagues still reported drops; a separate contemporary PC account found serious slowdown in crowded plazas. Such instability affects the precision needed for stealth and cannot be erased by excellent level design. This rating reflects the original 2016 release and first beta-patch evidence only. It is not a measured claim about the latest 2026 build, and later standalone expansion content is excluded.
Strengths
- Mechanical levels and two power sets keep routes inventive.
Weaknesses
- Launch-period frame drops and mouse stutter disrupt precision.
Who it is for: PC players who enjoy open levels and can check their build’s performance.
Play notes: Technical findings cover the 2016 launch and first beta patch only.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Ingenious shifting spaces reward exploration beyond the simple coup story. | Reviewed | 8.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Emily and Corvo bring different tools to richly explorable stealth spaces. | Reviewed | 9.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Karnaca’s streets and interiors excel, even where the main dialogue is less affecting. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The first beta patch eased mouse stutter, but busy scenes still caused disruptive PC slowdown. | Reviewed | 6.1 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Arkane Studios
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Release date
- 2016
- Platforms
- Windows PC
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genreShooter
- Tags
- FantasyLong-term ProgressionStory-drivenTurn-based CombatExplorationLevel ProgressionMain Story 20–50 HoursSolo-friendly3D GraphicsThird Person
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
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- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2016
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