Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
BANGER · Shooter · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.90.
- Length
- 22.9h
- Value
- $0.04/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Windows only.
The year is 2052. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider. Worst of all, an ages old conspiracy bent on world domination has decided that the time is right to emerge from the shadows and take control.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.90, set in September 2026. Its cuts run 86 percent off as a rule. There have been 102 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.90 at 87 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Deus Ex: Invisible War ($6.99, scores 5) and System Shock: Enhanced Edition ($1.99, scores 68).
$26.89 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $0.90.
Of the 718 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 619 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,560 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
Players
48 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
Without doubt the best game ever made. It still holds true 25 years later. An absolute masterpiece that continues to award you play after play.
If you love conspiracies then this is the game for you! This game is nearly 30 years old and it predicted 911, Covid 19, Neuralink, it exposes the Illuminati a bit and more. It gives you quite a bit to chew on for sure. Hell if for nothing else i recommend buying this game and playing it through for the rabbit hole it'll leave you with. Wake up and accept Jesus now while he can still be found..
I had a bunch of friends pestering me to play this for years, saying I would love it, etc because I played games like Morrowind. I kept brushing them off even though they promised it was the best game ever. I eventually played it and yeah... it really is one of the best games ever. What shocked me the most is that it really doesn't have any of those "old game-isms" that you come to expect from playing games from...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition scores 93/100 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/6910/deus-ex-game-of-the-year-editionThe 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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