Deus Ex: The Fall heads to PC

If you, like me, were disappointed when Square Enix’s big follow-up to the rather brilliant Deus Ex Human Revolution was the mobile-only Deus Ex The Fall – then get ready to be slightly less disappointed.

Following what Square Enix calls the game’s award-winning success on mobile platforms, Deus Ex The Fall is heading to Steam on PC. It’s not the big red-hot sequel we wanted, but I’ll take it.

The PC version will feature adjusted AI, keyboard and mouse functionality, improved graphics, and a bunch of other tweaks to (hopefully) cover up that mobile port experience.

PC optimisations

Full Mouse & Keyboard control scheme
Microsoft Controller support
28 Steam achievements
Steam Trading Cards and Badges
Adjusted Artificial Intelligence
Revised game tutorial
Removal of auto-target options
Revised aiming reticule
Removal of in-game purchase options, with rebalanced game economy
Revised cover options – now matches Deus Ex: Human Revolution (HOLD or Toggle)
Resolution, Anti-Aliaising and Vertical Sync options

Deus Ex The Fall – keyboard layout

Deus Ex The Fall – gamepad layout

Deus Ex: The Fall serves as a sequel to the novel, Deus Ex: Icarus Effect, which covers events before and during 2011’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

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”.

The game follows Ben Saxon, a former British SAS Mercenary who underwent physical augmentation, as he tries to uncover a conspiracy surrounding powerful corporations who have seized control from governments and command the drug supply needed by augmented humans to survive.

Augmentation junkies can pre-purchase Deus Ex: The Fall on Steam for US$9.99, with the game set to unlock on 25 March 2014.

As a limited time offer, you will also get Deus Ex (the original) Game of the Year Edition gratis, so that’s cool.