# Deus Ex: Human Revolution

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Deus Ex: Human Revolution and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for its ambience, music, story and writing, and gunplay that is genuinely dangerous. Critics most often report that it runs slowly or fails to run.

## Why people recommend it

- Atmosphere and music praised (2 comments): "I prefer the ambience of Deus Ex: Human Revolution better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395307)) "HR is the best videogame ever, story, art, music." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348551))
- Story and writing praised (2 comments): "The Deus Ex game series is known for relatively high-effort writing you can find while exploring" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49617128)) "HR is the best videogame ever, story, art, music." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348551))
- Dangerous, original gunplay design (2 comments): "Deus Ex: Human Revolution got around this by making gunplay genuinely dangerous, especially to your enemies." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168212)) "Deus Ex:HR did the same thing, and did it in a much more original way." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170033))
- Replayed in long sessions (2 comments): "I've had whole sessions with Human Revolution on repeat." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670294)) "hit all the right notes for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673038))

## What people warn about

- Runs slowly or fails to run (2 comments): "I can't get ... Deus Ex Human Revolution to run" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260194)) "It's mind-boggling how slow it is." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814120))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Helldivers 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/helldivers-2.md): 50 recommend
- [Triple-A Minesweeper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/triple-a-minesweeper.md): 40 recommend
- [Quake II](https://hackerapproved.com/p/quake-2.md): 33 recommend
- [Red Dead Redemption 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/red-dead-redemption-2.md): 28 recommend
- [Grand Theft Auto (1997)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grand-theft-auto.md): 28 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Deus Ex: Human Revolution", https://hackerapproved.com/p/deus-ex-human-revolution/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).