There's some cool things you can do by mixing together powers but even then the game is super limited while boasting insufferable design. The game gives you no indication of the enemies detection nor how well you're hidden, and verticality is too much of an easy solution to escape alerted enemies. Powers, especially blink, trivialize encounters in a way you can just skip entire setpieces. This wouldn't be so bad if the AI wasn't so one-note and actually interacted with the powers in some way.

A stylish stealth-action gem with brilliant mechanics (blink teleport, rat swarms!), but missions grow repetitive fast. The chaos/purity system intrigues, yet enemy AI might as well nap. Creative but monotonous.

Insanely good game

fantastic story amazing gameplay mechanics. what more would one need?

This game is ten years old and it's still pretty great. The stealth gameplay is tense and exciting, and the way the storytelling enshrines player agency and its very core is terrific. I'm not to crazy about the silent protagonist trope, which is a product of the time period but beyond that this game is a certified classic in my book.

Shoulder-Carry Simulator 2012.

Best of the best.

One of two stealth games i can manage , and i still love it a lot , great game.

Too limited, too forceful but in a repetitive way. Good story and world design but not a "GotY" type of game for me.

thoughtfully crafted puzzle-esc open levels, meaningful character progression, polished, mechanics, beautiful art, and a fun story make a game that yearns to be replayed

Amazing world and great gameplay, but the story is generic and the morality system feels very unnatural.

Bwadr

Took all the lessons taught from the failure Deus Ex: Invisible War and learned nothing from them.

A very pretty game with unexceptional gameplay.

I liked Thief, I liked Arx Fatalis, so I really should have enjoyed Dishonored. But I just bounced off of the game - it wasn't fun to play, the gameplay was way too easy, and the atmosphere didn't capture me. A shame.

Great game.

I didn't like the artistic similarity to the Fable series. It killed a lot of the realism of this game. But the gameplay was a lot of fun. I enjoyed how many different ways you could accomplish your goal. However, some missions were much harder because of these lack of options.

I'm really sick of the whole silent protagonist thing.