Dishonoured is a game all about stealth and killing as few people as possible. Unfortunately, there are very few actual methods of non-lethally sneaking around. The game has a tonne of different tools at your disposal, and almost all of them are lethal. The two primary ways of knocking people out are: choking & sleep-darts. This means that your blink becomes primarily a way to sneak closer or around guards so that you can choke them out.

However, that doesn't mean that I don't still really enjoy this game. While the mechanics aren't as polished as Dishonoured 2 or Death of the Outsider, the worldbuilding is still as beautiful and detailed as ever, and that's honestly what keeps making me come back.