Conversation, combat, and multiple solutions make Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition a first-person experience shaped by player choices. At $3.49 from GOG, its rating of 94% across 13,813 reviews offers one point of context for the purchase. Keep in mind that the interface is in English and controller support is full; both single-player and multiplayer are available. It may appeal most if flexible approaches to a conspiracy story matter more to you than following one prescribed play style.With a 50% reduction, Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition costs $3.49 at GOG, and its interface languages are English.
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01About Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
In 2052, a conspiracy emerges as the world nears collapse. This first-person role-playing game blends action, character interaction, and problem solving, letting you choose whether to talk, fight, or use your skills to get past obstacles.Steam player rating: 94% from 13,813 reviews.Supported interface languages: English.Released March 28, 2007.
Alexander Brandon · Michiel van den Bos · Reeves Gabrels
Lead Designer
Harvey Smith
Developer
Ion Storm
Publisher
Eidos Interactive Corp.
Steam player reviews
94%positiveVery Positive13,813 Steam reviews
Lowest recorded in 36 months
$0.782025-06-26 · GGreenManGamingBase game · same records as the chart above; USD history, not a regional Steam low.
Language support
Language
Interface
Subtitles
Audio
English
Yes
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-19
02Before you buy
Modes and controls
The Steam PC version includes single-player and multiplayer modes, plus full controller support.
Language
The interface is available in English; full audio and subtitles are not listed.
03Frequently asked questions
What is the setting?
The story takes place in 2052, amid social collapse and a conspiracy seeking world domination.
How can I overcome obstacles?
Talk, fight, or use skills to get past obstacles, with the game adapting to your style.
How does character development work?
Skills, augmentations, weapons, and items shape character development.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviews
Selected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
To this day Deus Ex is still my all-time favourite. It's immersive story line, multiple twists and turns, great game play and length are what make it quite possibly the greatest FPS RPG of all time. I have played through it multiple times in many different ways, have completed it totally pacifistic, sneaky, all guns blazing etc. and still find new and exciting elements with each play through.
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8.2 hours at review1,067 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Deus ex is an amazing story driven game. I've purchased it about 5 times as copies got scratched or corrupt. I would absolutely recommend this game.
HOWEVER, the steam GOTY version is a steaming pile. It needs modding to replace the renderer as it does not display light properly. And today, I find that steam has decided that the game is no longer installed and deleted all but one of my save games, after playing for 15 hours. Not happyShow moreShow less
15.8 hours at review686 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
In 1997, John Romero of Ion Storm Dallas approached the producer of System Shock, Warren Spector, said "Make the game of your dreams. No limits" and the end result was the creation of Ion Storm Austin and their first game; Deus Ex.
Deus Ex is a First-Person Shooter/Role Playing Game with a heavy emphasis on stealth and thinking carefully about your surroundings. The game provides you, from start to finish, with a number of ways to solve every single problem put in front of you. The level design is open ended enough for any method of completion.
The game is inspired by Looking Glass Studio's System Shock and Thief and as a result, the freedom you have to approach and complete your objectives is simply staggering. You are given a huge world to explore, some tools you might want to use to complete your objectives and let loose upon your environment. Careful exploration is needed to uncover all of the hidden gadgets, secret tunnels and small story elements.
The only time you will ever receive a Game Over is if you die. There are no penalties for doing things your way and the game dynamically changes as you play. People in the game may think differently of you if you don't do what they expect of you and may effect certain things as you progress through the story.
Speaking of Story, the story of Deus Ex is one of a heavily political and conspiratorial nature. You play as JC Denton, an agent on his first day with the UNATCO, an organization that deals with the growing rise of foreign and domestic terrorism in the early 21st century. It does not take long however for JC to discover that he is merely a pawn in a huge political game that leans far beyond his own understanding.
He will have to travel far and wide to gather the help he needs from unsuspecting allies. Hong Kong, Paris, New York City and various US locations will be visited, all of which have a fitting Tech-noir feel and stellar music to match. One listen of the music for Hong Kong and you'll never forget it.
Being an Role-Playing Game as well as a shooter, Deus Ex allows you to customize your character to your preference. The game features a skill system that will allow you to improve JC in a number of fields. Like big guns? Master the Heavy Weapons skill and go in with the GEP Gun blowing people and locked doors to bits. Want to silently infiltrate every location with skill and precision? Master Computers and Lockpicking to open doors, hack security machines, ATM machines for money (if you don't find any bank account details lying around) and read e-mails for clues about the environment you're in.
Another notable part of Deus Ex are its unforgettable characters. Every major character in the game has a well rounded personality with their own expectations of you. What you do in the world or tell them can affect how they treat you which might be crucial in your immediate future.
There are boss battles in the game but some may be avoided entirely by learning information from other characters. If you do walk into a boss fight, you even have the choice of running right out the door behind them and not bother engaging them at all! When was the last time a game let you do that? Things might even happen to that character later on if you don't fight them.
With all the above praise, Deus Ex is not without its small faults however. Some of the levels are huge and empty of detail, forcing long walks if you want to get anywhere specific in a short amount of time. The large empty levels also make the game feel a little devoid of life in some places. A lot of areas that look as if they should be full of people, are completely empty except for maybe two or three characters at once.
With every conspiracy theory under the sun under the microscope in Deus Ex, you must learn to question everything and trust no one. You may even find that things that this game was talking about in the Year 2000 are happening right now or have a very real possibility to happen at some point during our lifetimes; wealth and the increasing gap between the rich and the poor across the globe, omnipresent electronic surveillance, technical augmentations that can enhance the human race beyond what nature intended and much more.
It's a roller-coaster ride of a game that everyone simply has to play to experience at least once. Your favourite game was probably inspired by this piece of art so do yourself a favour, set next weekend aside and play this game already. You will never leave the house without your tin-foil hat again!Show moreShow less
40.3 hours at review421 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Before you buy, find a better retailer that fixed the game for modern systems or find an online guide on how to get it working without having JC run at mach speed cause of FPS issues. - I got this for a bundle on sale and I've yet to play it just because of technical difficulties.Show moreShow less
0.2 hours at review81 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
it's better than cyberpunk 2077 lolShow moreShow less
32.7 hours at review372 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I find myself amidst this Deus Ex conundrum.
I have no nostalgia for this game, I didn't play it when it was new or recent, not even once - I had only heard about it and its legendary status. I finally got to play it in 2013 and despite the decade of immense hype I loved it. I must have played through the whole game about 3 or 4 times in a row in different playstyles and difficulties. Had I not picked it up again today I would have given it a glowing recommendation, praising its atmosphere, incredible length and size but inbetween 2013 and now I have also played about 100 hours of Deus Ex Human Revolution and despite its flaws I find it to be a much better game in almost every aspect. Deus Ex was a landmark title in gaming but replaying it now it feels so terribly clunky.
On a technical level it's laughable even for its time which personally I don't mind as much because I grew up in the nineties but new players will definitely have a hard time getting accustomed to the graphics which do a big disservice to the UT engine. The voice acting is also comical, which I don't mind as much either, it's just something I need to mention in an honest recommendation.
The game is sizeable but it definitely runs out of steam in the middle and while the story is pretty good it isn't anything you haven't heard before if you've played a game or read a book in the cyberpunk genre. Expect X-Files type conspiracy theories, AIs, a mysterious disease and allies of questionable allegiance.
There are however some great dialogue scenes that really stuck with me. It's not high literature but it's admittedly a lot smarter and adult than most cyberpunk games.
I also think that the wealth of choices you have in the story has been grossly exaggerated. It's mostly details like being called out on going into the lady's bathroom or a few lines of dialogue changing because you killed an ally because he would become a boss fight later on. There's no branching storyline to speak of but in the end you can choose different endings, albeit not as clumsily as in Human Revolution where you literally got 4 buttons to choose an ending from.
My main gripe are the gameplay mechanics. Even when you know what you are doing and which augmentations and skills to upgrade, both gunplay and stealth mechanics feel quite clunky and unbalanced, and I found them highly frustrating on my most recent attempt at a playthrough. Those accustomed to newer entries in the series or other stealth games will probably demand more fluency and variety. You can always choose a slightly different route in the levels which takes the edge of these flaws a little bit but they remain much too noticeable to ignore.
There's also the myriad of technical issues and bugs I've encountered with the steam port so far, which I don't recall from the retail version, which admittedly had its own unique bugs I could exploit. I liked how I never had to upgrade lockpicking because opening the inventory while using a lockpick would only drain one item no matter which level the lock had.
Deus Ex is still an important milestone in gaming that everyone should have played through at least once, but I think it's starting to show its age quite badly. I was really looking forward to a replay but the first hour felt much too tedious I think I'm going to pass. It's not a bad game, if you have a lot of patience you might love it the way I first did but it has always been flawed. I treasure my memories of first playing it though.Show moreShow less
15 hours at review79 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
If Steam was Deus Ex...
- I could write this review through the front door, guns blazing.
- I could write this review descending through the rafters of the roof.
- I could write this review while snaking around through air vents.
- I could write this review while picking off targets at a distance.
- I could write this review while slinking around, performing non-lethal takedowns.
- I could write this review while wiring the security systems to turn on my enemies.
I had to go this far back in time to get a game that really understands what choice, flexibility, and options are in a video game... what a shame.Show moreShow less
16.5 hours at review350 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
I’ll start off with saying I have no nostalgia for this game. I have never played any Deus Ex game before writing this review. I do, however, understand that this game was very well regarded back when it came out. And I can definitely see that. It introduced many ways to complete an objective and gave the player a sense of freedom. It also has an interesting augmentation upgrade system. So…I see where all the positive reviews are coming from.
However, I couldn’t get into this game and had to stop playing after 4 hours.
Deus Ex is clearly going for more of a stealth based game rather than combat. But the stealth mechanics (or lack thereof) make it extremely difficult to do so. The wide open maps don’t cater to a stealth approach. You are given stealth-like weapons but they all felt very underpowered and useless, so I wasn’t inclined to use them. I found it was easier to run up to enemies with the crowbar and whack them until they died.
The default mapping of buttons is a bizarre choice by the developers. You can change most aspects of the controls in the options, however.
Uninteresting story that I never got into. The bad voice acting didn’t help either. Although I think robotic sounding voices are intentional for the nano-augmented characters and mech characters.
The enemy AI is also very bad. Sometimes they’ll run around and never shoot or they’ll stand there and fight. The damage the enemy inflicts on you is pretty big, even on medium difficulty. I also couldn’t figure out how I died a lot of times. There is a health meter per body part, but I couldn’t figure out what was important or how it related to when I died.
On a positive note, there is a lot of story here. Many books, newspaper clippings and emails to read. As well as many NPC’s to talk to. There are side missions too. It’s a lot of content, which is great, but only if the gameplay makes me want to continue, which in this case it did not.
Autosave doesn't exist so you have to quick save or save manually. You'll be quick saving and quick loading a lot.
To get 60fps, use a different launcher
Deus Ex runs at a very low framerate. Do a google search for “kentie launcher”. Install that and you’ll be able to get 60fps as well as have some more graphical options.
Pros
+Lots of extra story and Deus Ex world lore to uncover
+Multiple ways to complete a level
+Nice augmentation system for its time.
+Inventory system is ok
Cons
+Story is uninteresting
+Voice acting is subpar
+Stealth mechanics lacking
+Combat system is clunky
+AI is lacking
Deus Ex is a stealth based game with FPS elements but provides the mechanics and tools for neither. A game that was undoubtedly great in its time, but falls flat today.
4/10 Below averageShow moreShow less
4.9 hours at review49 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Went to the ladies restroom for fun,
A lady caught me and told she would report me,
I thought she was kidding,
But she was not, she reported.
Had to hear an earful from my boss Manderly,
infront of my brother,
was embarassed of myself :(
Would not go to the ladies restroom again...
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12 hours at review271 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Rosecolored glasses with this one. Going back to play it, it just didn't age well.
Edit to this given all the comments.
The STORY is great! However, the gameplay itself didn't age well. If you're looking to try out this classic understand, that some classics don't age well, you might be better off looking up a playthrough or a review video.
Editing this again:
To the guy who was delusional about somehow "debunking" my review about it somehow not being about the age of the game. Yeah it is about the age of the game. Newsflash some games age poorly, as did this one.
It was worthy of the 30 awards it got back in 2001 but today in 2020, skip it and again look at a Let's Play video.
I have disabled comments because I'm over fan boys going off on anyone who dare say anything bad about this game. It's a 20 single player year old game, why is the fan base be that toxic?Show moreShow less
2.6 hours at review45 people found this helpful
Source: original Steam user reviews. Helpful votes are an archived snapshot, not live data. Last collected: 08/15/2026.
