Martensitic stainless steels (MSS) have extensive industrial applicability owing to their high hardness and resistance to wear and corrosion at milder temperatures. AISI 410L is a low-carbon MSS with better processability than the high carbon-content MSS grades. Additive manufacturing by laser directed energy deposition (AM L-DED) grants the benefits of geometry freedom, complex materials processability, and obtention of refined microstructures. Nonetheless, there are challenges because of the L-DED complex thermal history and brittle nature of martensite formed in MSS. Therefore, post heat-treatment are required to provide residual stress relief, martensite tempering, and overall mechanical properties enhancement. To synthesize the current knowledge on the factors affecting the mechanical properties of AISI 410L MSS processed by L-DED, while expanding the investigation on suitable heat-treatment routes, this work complies with original data and literature results to discuss how different carbon contents, building orientations, heat-treatments, and cladding procedures affect the microstructure, hardness, tensile, and Charpy impact mechanical properties of different MSS, in special AISI 410L, processed by L-DED.