In a recent release of the official Xbox podcast, the creative director, Arkane Studios Ding Bakaba, stated that Deathloop was one of the options for the future of the Dishonored universe.
Some similarities between Deathloop and Dishonored cannot be denied, e.g. supernatural abilities and architectural style, but there are less obvious hints that fans took to Reddit a year ago, and even formed a time line from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider to the end of Deathloop.
In the Bakaba podcast, it confirmed that Deathloop's story is happening in the future, after the story Dishonored: Death of the Outsider. The game was not positioned as a branch to be considered something special, with its unique characters, history, and time period. At the same time, there was interest among developers in what would happen to Dishonored after Alien disappeared.
Deathloop was released on September 14, 2021 on the PC and PlayStation 5, and released on September 2022 on the Xbox Series X/S.