First-person stealth-action game where you pick between two playable characters—deposed Empress Emily or her father Corvo—each with distinct supernatural abilities granted by a mysterious entity called the Outsider. Missions unfold across Dunwall and the coastal city of Karnaca, 15 years after a plague nearly destroyed the empire. You'll decide how to approach each target: choke guards unconscious and hide bodies, possess rats to slip past patrols, stop time mid-combat, or just stab everyone. Your chaos level (how many you kill) reshapes later missions and the ending. Abilities stack in creative ways—teleport onto a chandelier, then drop-assassinate from above. Levels are dense with alternate routes: rooftops, sewers, locked apartments. It's built for replays, testing nonlethal runs versus murder sprees.
