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Games like Deus Ex: The Fall

If Deus Ex: The Fall is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, Deus Ex: Invisible War and Devinica — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgic, retro and combat or subterfuge approach. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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Deus Ex: The Fall is a 2014 first-person action-adventure RPG set in a cyberpunk 2027 where augmented humans depend on corporate-controlled drugs. Players navigate either combat or stealth approaches through a narrative-driven experience featuring exploration and hacking mechanics. Priced at $9.99, the game serves as a mobile port prequel to Human Revolution. Reviewers note it captures some of the vibes from the original Deus Ex and offers a primitive but gratifying gameplay experience with a solid story and interesting characters, though it received a 35% positive rating from 2293 Steam reviews. Playable on Steam Deck, the game offers a short sit-down session for solo players seeking nostalgic retro action.

About Deus Ex: The Fall: Deus Ex: The Fall is set in 2027– a golden era for science, technology and human augmentation, but also a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.

2014ActionAdventureRPG9.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 45Windows
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Players who liked Deus Ex: The Fall also play

Steam players who put hours into Deus Ex: The Fall also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Deus Ex: The Fall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job...

    2013ActionRPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Deus Ex: Invisible War

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Deus Ex: The Fall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    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.

    2007Action6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Devinica

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Deus Ex: The Fall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    A corporate artificial intelligence simulator.

    2023ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Deus Ex: The Fall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.

    2007Action6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Shelf Life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Deus Ex: The Fall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Shelf Life is an action FPS set in a near future conglomerate, that will seem eerily familiar if you spend your time around online dumpster fires. Use your arsenal of weapons to shoot, burn and fungible-ize your way through the Edison facility fighting a lizardy hostile takeover.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeSteam ↗
  6. SiN Episodes: Emergence

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Deus Ex: The Fall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    You are John Blade, commander of HardCorps, an elite security force dedicated to protecting the people of Freeport City. Four years have passed since your first battle with Elexis Sinclaire, a beautiful, brilliant, and ruthless scientist who is out to remake humanity according to her own twisted vision.

    2006Action9.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Mutation

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Deus Ex: The Fall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Trapped in a laboratory, something hunts you, constantly mutating. Will you be able to save yourself?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure12.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Binary Domain

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Deus Ex: The Fall fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Set in futuristic Tokyo, take control of the robotic community before they control everything!

    2012Action2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Deus Ex: The Fall

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Prey

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Deus Ex: The Fall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

    2017ActionAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Deus Ex: The Fall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

    2007Action19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. System Shock® 2 (1999)

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Deus Ex: The Fall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    "Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.

    2013ActionRPGDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Swapper

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Deus Ex: The Fall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    What if someone knew your mind better than you did? The Swapper is an award-winning, narrative driven puzzle game set in the furthest reaches of space.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Alien: Isolation

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Deus Ex: The Fall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger.

    2014Action39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Night in the Woods

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Deus Ex: The Fall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.

    2017Adventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Gorogoa

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Deus Ex: The Fall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Gorogoa is an elegant evolution of the puzzle genre, told through a beautifully hand-drawn story designed and illustrated by Jason Roberts. Winner of Debut Game at the 2018 BAFTA Games Awards, as well as Best Mobile Game and the Innovation Award at the GDC 2018 Choice Awards.

    2017IndieAdventureCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Talos Principle

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Deus Ex: The Fall cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

    2014ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Deus Ex: The Fall at current Steam store prices.

  1. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deus Ex: The Fall on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Deus Ex: The Fall on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Deus Ex: The Fall on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Deus Ex: The Fall on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deus Ex: The Fall on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Deus Ex: The Fall on Steam right now. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. GRIS

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under Deus Ex: The Fall on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.

    2018IndieAdventure3.74 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Deus Ex: The Fall on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Deus Ex: The Fall.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Deus Ex: The Fall

Does Deus Ex: The Fall run on Steam Deck?
Deus Ex: The Fall is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Deus Ex: The Fall cost?
Deus Ex: The Fall is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Deus Ex: The Fall?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Deus Ex: The Fall are Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, Deus Ex: Invisible War, Devinica.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Deus Ex: The Fall.

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