Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut
BANGER · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 23.1h
- Value
- $0.09/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8000 series or ATI Radeon HD 2000 series or better, 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. When a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was May 2026. 104 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 86. The current cut is what makes it a 89.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition ($0.90, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ($2.99, scores 42).
The math says it holds its tier up to $21.54, and you are being asked for $1.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 569 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 1,554 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
23.1 hours to finish it, 47 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
74% start to 26% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
193 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I would describe it as a shining gem hidden inside a dark cave. This stealth game feels inspired by Metal Gear Solid 4, especially with its stealth system and the smooth transition between first-person and third-person perspectives, which is excellent. The story and narrative are rather dark, but they reflect reality and borrow the RPG-style dialogue system reminiscent of Mass Effect. It's a great series that has...
Awesome game. Deus Ex as it should be The only flaw is that story is dull and derpy. Really, cmon. "Sorry Mario Jensen, your princess Megan is in another castle secret facility" - what the F is that? And also for me personally there was the issue that story is being fed to me too fast, I not always could keep up and follow it, and on my first playthrough in 2 missions out of 3 I could not tell where the F am I...
Still an amazing game in 2026. I honestly didn't expect to enjoy this game as much as I did. The stealth mechanics are really good, and I love how the game gives you different ways to approach missions instead of forcing you into one playstyle. The story is probably the best part for me. The whole idea of human augmentation, corporations, technology and where humanity is heading is really well done. Some of the...
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238010/deus-ex-human-revolution-director-s-cutThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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