Deus Ex: The Fall
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $1.49.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $0.35/hr
- Reviews
- 37% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 97 in the 13 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.49 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is less well reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ($2.99, scores 42) and Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut ($1.99, scores 89) both outscore it.
Critics scored it 45, but players land 8 points lower at 37 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
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. 3 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 15 percent of the 1,134 reviews written there were positive, against 37 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
51% start to 26% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2 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 love Deus Ex but this is a massive downgrade from the other entries in the series. I ran into too many bugs to even be worth playing.
(got the game with the deus ex collection) very trashy game, actually one of the worst games in the history of gaming i don't care if it's a mobile game or whatever, just don't buy it under any circumstances and i only played it to get the badge and didn't even get it eventually
cant say i like this one more than any other deus ex game but ive come to appreciate it after seeing old prototype builds. its a gold mine if youre into that sort of thing and i would recommend it on those grounds but as a game to play no not really. its not too long so you can knock it out in one long sitting but the combat is very one-note, hitboxes are dodgy and there is absolutely no point in using anything...
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Deus Ex: The Fall scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/258180/deus-ex-the-fallThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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