Deus Ex: Invisible War
Skip · Shooter · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $6.99.
- Length
- 9.1h
- Value
- $0.77/hr
- Reviews
- 57% positive
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Windows only.
Approximately 20 years after Deus Ex, the world is only beginning to recover from a catastrophic worldwide depression. In this techno-nightmare, take part in the dark struggle to raise the world from its own ashes.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.97, set in November 2017. Its cuts run 86 percent off as a rule. There have been 103 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 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: The Fall ($1.49, scores 3).
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 80 against 57 percent.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 905 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 41 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.1 hours. Doing everything runs 19, 2.1 times as long.
Players
3 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
Dont understand all the hate for this game. I think its great. Judging only this game and not looking at prequel I don't see anything to complain about besides obvious things like outdated graphics, UI, gameplay features etc. Its the same with any older game, it becomes outdated. This one has this post apocalyptic charm to it. But not in classic sense of post-apocalyptic world, this is more sanitized, almost...
Underappreciated, if still an obvious step down from the previous ones. Lots of quality of life improvements and ambitious directions though.
Yeah I can't lie this is a rough ass game. Pedigree and effort aside: Deus Ex Invisible War is a mess. A top down mismanagement of ideas and expectations shoved into an Xbox sized square hole in the wall and no accounting for structure. To start this game legit only ran on my Steam Deck (and probably by extension under Linux proper). This ♥♥♥ is BUSTED on Windows. Has been for many years. Even using the fan patches...
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Deus Ex: Invisible War scores 5/100 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/6920/deus-ex-invisible-warThe 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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