Deus Ex
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.
First-Person ShooterRole-PlayingAction RPG
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- Released
- 2000
- Developer
- Ion Storm
- Platforms
- 4 systems
- Critics
- 90
- Steam Deck
- playable
- Download
- Not stated
What is Deus Ex?
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.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 23 June 2000 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Ion Storm |
| Publisher | Suntendy Interactive Multimedia Co.,Ltd., Eidos Interactive |
| Platforms | PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Steam Deck |
| Genres | First-Person Shooter, Role-Playing, Action RPG |
| Languages | 1 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q644793, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Deus Ex received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Metacritic page. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Full controller support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | No |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | playable |
| Download size | Not stated |
| Add-on content | None listed |
| Age gate | 17+ |
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Deus Ex worth it?
95% of 15,619 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $6.99 on Steam, and critics score it 90/100.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
How long is Deus Ex? How long to beat it
Total play time for Deus Ex is about 39.4 hours to do everything, and around 22.9 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 22.9h | 318 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 28.8h | 497 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 39.4h | 141 |
At its current price of $6.99, beating the main story works out to about $0.31 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.
Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.
Where Deus Ex sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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How positions are decided
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- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Estimated sales for Deus Ex
These are estimates, not reported figures. Ion Storm has not published unit sales for Deus Ex, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 15,619 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $6.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Ion Storm publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Deus Ex price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $6.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
Latest Deus Ex updates & patch notes
Pulled from Deus Ex's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
- A multi-month delay for Deus Ex turned into a huge payoff for one of its best characters, says designer Harvey Smith
- In 1997, Warren Spector told us the upcoming PC classic Deus Ex was inspired by Final Fantasy, Miyamoto, and 'the console guys'
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution could've had a track from the original game's composer but it was rejected for not being the 'right fit,' and in hindsight he says they were right
- It's brutal out there: Deus Ex and Unreal composer says he's submitted 50 resumes and gotten one interview in the last year
- Deus Ex's art director says ugly new remaster "did not need to happen"
- Deus Ex's influence on Elon Musk 'may be its longest, worst legacy,' says its writer
What readers say about Deus Ex
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Deus Ex on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Performance and stutter23 of 300 (8%)
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.
Steam review, 29 October 2021 · 0 hours played · 81 readers marked it helpfulI love playing Deus Ex, Deus Ex to me is one of the best First Person (FPS) cyberpunk video game that I have ever played, I also love playing Deus Ex: Invisible War some people hate Deus Ex: Invisible War, but not me, but this review is all about Deus Ex.
Steam review, 1 February 2022 · 1 hours played · 14 readers marked it helpful - Crashes and freezes16 of 300 (5%)
Sadly i cant play the game because it crashes every time
Steam review, 3 January 2025 · 0 hours played · 7 readers marked it helpfulThe closest I've gotten was to have a static black window appear, which will crash after 5 seconds.
Steam review, 26 September 2023 · 1 hours played · 6 readers marked it helpful
A further 7 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
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Games like Deus Ex
24 games overlap with Deus Ex on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition, Deus Ex: Invisible War and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
Part of the Deus Ex series
Deus Ex is one of 4 Deus Ex games we track. See the whole series ranked by the GamingPickz Score, plotted on the grid, and listed in release order:
Deus Ex head to head
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Common questions about Deus Ex
What platforms is Deus Ex on?
Deus Ex is available on PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Steam Deck. It first released in 2000.
How much does Deus Ex cost?
$6.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Deus Ex?
95% of 15,619 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
What is the Metacritic score for Deus Ex?
90 out of 100 for the PC version, as published on the game's own Steam store page. Steam can lag Metacritic by a few points.
Does Deus Ex work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Deus Ex as playable on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.
Who made Deus Ex?
Deus Ex was developed by Ion Storm and published by Suntendy Interactive Multimedia Co.,Ltd., Eidos Interactive.
Is Deus Ex worth it in 2026?
95% of 15,619 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $6.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Deus Ex on sale?
Not at the moment. Deus Ex is at its $6.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.
How long does it take to beat Deus Ex?
about 22.9 hours for the main story, 28.8 hours with the main extras, 39.4 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.
Is Deus Ex worth the money?
At $6.99 for about 22.9 hours to beat the main story, Deus Ex works out to roughly $0.31 per hour. That is a value read, not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being better. Weigh it against the review sentiment above.