Dishonored 2 A city of rooftops and second chances

You choose between Empress Emily Kaldwin and her protector Corvo Attano, both fully voiced, each with their own powers, gadgets and weapons. Emily's kit leans toward unsettling tricks: link enemies so they share one fate, or mesmerize a whole room into calm. Corvo plays the classic shadow, blinking across gaps and folding into darkness. Bonecharm crafting and upgrade trees let you tune the build to your taste, and the same mission plays differently depending on who is doing the stalking. One run as each is almost two different games.

Every mission is a hand-crafted space with a goal and dozens of ways to reach it: the front door, the rooftops, the vents, or a route nobody thought to guard. The game is genuinely built for this, not faking it. A mansion's walls shift and rearrange themselves around clockwork soldiers, a dust-storm district splits between warring factions, and one mission lets you slip between past and present to change what the future holds. Even after you know a level's layout, another route is usually waiting. The level design is the part people agree on most.

Fifteen years after the Rat Plague, an otherworldly usurper has taken Emily's throne, and the story follows you from Dunwall's grimy streets to Karnaca, a decaying coastal city full of architecture, notes and overheard conversations. How you play ripples outward: kill freely and the world sours around you; move like a ghost and spare nearly everyone, and a cleaner ending waits. Guards have their own small stories if you stop to listen. The tone is dark and a little strange, a grim fairy tale where mysticism and industry share a street.