Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut

an amazing game. very difficult but on a day off is a perfect time burner

really damn good. cant think of any bad thing tio say

This game is quite possibly the most "fake deep" thing I've ever played. It wants so badly to be a profound take on the human experience, but really, it's just a fun RPG-lite-come-stealth-shooter experience with very little to say beyond "augmentation bad!?!?". Still a fun game and I do recommend it but I just wish I'd tempered my expectations a little more when it comes to the storyline and themes on offer here.

That is that the parts that are good were already good and in the original game. The parts that are bad are often issues that were not present in the original game. The voice acting is great. The music is awesome. The story is fairly well done. There are a lot of decent choices in the game. There are a lot of ways you can play the game minus boss fights. Bugs are ultimately what did this DC in for me. There are a lot of animation issues such as your body or an enemy’s body going through surfaces like walls or desks during a take-down animation. I got game breaking crashes on the Panchea level. At different points in that level I keep getting crashes with the error message “ran out of saved memory”. I was able to get by it once by loading a previous save but later on I could not get by it using that method, adjusting graphics settings, trying different versions of Proton/wine or anything else. I literally can’t finish the game which I had no issue with when the original first launched in 2011. Looking on the Steam forums gamers on both Windows and Linux complain of this issue dating back as far as 2013. The fact that this bug still remains in 2025 in various forms is a disgrace. There are even other bugs such as when using the social enhancer aug you can choose “charm” but it will actually choose “intimidate” instead which can cost you the conversation as the game’s code has switched the two for that instance and you really have to pick the wrong one for it to work. Once again looking at the Steam forums that bug has been unfixed since 2014. There are other bugs where objectives don’t always update properly. For instance I got a pocket secretary which told me where a person was hiding but my objective didn’t update saying I knew that info (still said I had to find out where they were) and I had to go there manually to get the objective to skip ahead saying I had found them. Don’t get me wrong, the game itself is still very fun to play but the DC was bug city for me.

this is a really good game. I decided to give it a whirl again and it holds up.