Now here is a pleasant surprise. Aspyr Media has just announced Deus Ex Remastered. The classic cyberpunk game from Ion Storm is coming back with better graphics, modern features, and quality-of-life improvements for a whole new generation of players.
Deus Ex: Remastered will come out on February 5th, 2026. To celebrate this announcement, the team shared its first trailer, which you can find below. This trailer has some before/after comparison scenes. As such, it will give you an idea of what you can expect from it.
This feels similar to what Aspyr did with the remasters of Tomb Raider. So, expect higher quality textures and better 3D models. I can also see some better lighting effects. However, this doesn’t seem to have any Ray Tracing or Path Tracing.
From what I know, the RTX Remix for the original Deus Ex is still in active development. In fact, you can already download a version of it. So, make sure to try it if you own a high-end NVIDIA GPU.
Right now, the only video we have is from Sony. I don’t believe this remaster will be exclusive to PS5. Aspyr simply decided to announce it during Sony’s State of Play event. Or at least that’s my assumption. The game’s official website is currently unavailable.
Aspyr has not shared any additional details. My guess is that the team will send an official press release later this week. Once we get more details, I’ll be sure to update the story.
Enjoy the trailer!
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This game needed a faithful remake, not a half-hearted remaster that ruins the look. I bet there will also be tons of censorship given the nature of this game.
If they were to do a full on remake I'd expect even more censorship.
That's why I said "faithful," which let's face it, may never happen in our lifetimes.
i am so glad aspyr or should i say the russians at saber interactive are doing this and not the woke canadian soyboys at nightdive who took pleasure in the death of charlie kirk.
nonsense, a remake today is the kiss of death, it will never capture the feeling of the original just remaster them with better textures models and lighting and improve the controls like the tomb raider remaster.
Read my reply to SincereGhost. I specifically said FAITHFUL remake, which I know will be an almost impossible task.
A remake is by essence visually unfaithful to the original material, there's no such thing as a visually faithful remake
In this day and age no one would be able to do a faithful remake, they'd f*ck it up royally and it would be even more of a stab in the back than this.
tomb raider anniversary is more faithful than the resident evil 2 and silent hill 2 remake but people hated back then, the standards have dropped so much.
TR:A had a sort of vibe problem in many nuances… Exactly the kind that would kill a Deus Ex or any Remake.
It looked good, but it felt like a chore or drag instead of capturing the intrigue of exploring those places like the originals did, also kinda more casual and consoley, too puzzley, bland combat for the time… those kinds of nuances.
I prefer this over UE5 slop…or just the OG with mods, even better.
So …. one other option was Oblivion style remakster ~ which would've been better. The underlying game is already UE2, just update visuals using UE5 layer. Game Mechanics untouched or minimal changes.
But if we're still opting for full-on remake from scratch, then that means we're asking a whole lotta underlying mechanics to be overhauled/changed ~ is that what the ask is?
(p.s – am excited abit nevertheless but yea abit more visual overhaul would've been better)
An Oblivion-like "remade graphics" is what this should have gotten, indeed.
I'd say a faithful remake would be basically the kind of game the developers would dream of making had they had access to 2025 technology back in the late 90s.
"The underlying game is already UE2, just update visuals using UE5 layer. Game Mechanics untouched or minimal changes."
That's exactly what they are most likely doing. Notice the lighting changes? These are most likely due to Lumen. The reason I'm saying this is because a) the recommended PC specs are for an RTX 2080 and b) it would make sense to port the game from UE1 to UE5.
Personally, I'd like them to go all nuts with the visual changes. Instead of Lumen, they should add Path Tracing. Doom 1 & 2 Path Tracing and Quake 2 RTX are mind-blowing. This is what they should have done. Yes, there would still be some artistic changes, but the remaster would have looked more faithful to the original. This is why I'm so excited about Half-Life 2 RTX.
Still, the biggest criticism here is the artistic changes. You can also see this with the new 3D models for the characters. They look WAY BETTER than the old ones. But since some characters do not look identical to the original, a lot of people call them awful.
What's funny here is that all of these changes were done manually. Real artists have designed these new 3D models and textures. Yet, ignorant people call it "AI slop". What's also funny is that most gamers scream that all they wanted was the original 3D models and textures to look cleaner/sharper. Which is EXACTLY what AI could achieve. Which is PRECISELY what these gamers have been criticizing in the past. Ironic, isn't it?
maybe but the soul reaver remastered recommended a rtx 2060 and it run fine on older systems.
"What's funny here is that all of these changes were done manually. Real artists have designed these new 3D models and textures. Yet, ignorant people call it "AI slop". What's also funny is that most gamers scream that all they wanted was the original 3D models and textures to look cleaner/sharper. Which is EXACTLY what AI could achieve. "
i know right, it gets worse, people bash this remaster for not keeping the original vision and arty style, but praise revision which arguably changes the game even mroe.
I am just glad to have good lighting in a game infamous for being too damn dark at times.
I think you're right about the engine but there is no Lumen here. no bounce lighting.
deus ex runs on the first unreal engine.
Loved the game, 25 years ago, wow, I am old.
One of my favorites back in the day but nowadays this gem of a game would need a total remake, it`s just too old and graphically outdated – new textures won`t fix that.
Did you bother to watch the trailer? It's quite clear the textures, lighting, and character models have all been updated.
still looks very old, that`s my point.
the combat sucks but other than that its perfect.
wohooo lets go aspyr, or should i say saber interactive russian developers, they did an amazing job with the tomb raiders, fck nightdive their ceo took pleasure on the death of charlie kirk. I love the 2005 shinny reflective graphics, so to me this is awesome, no i dont want to "maintain the retro feel of the old games" if i wanted that i wouldnt use graphics mods.
"From what I know, the RTX Remix for the original Deus Ex is still in active development. In fact, you can already download a version of it. So, make sure to try it if you own a high-end NVIDIA GPU."
yes exactly, rtx fakes a remaster like this, but with insane performance cost, now we dont need gay tracing.
Nightdive is infinitely more competent than Aspyr when it comes to remastering old games and it shows in that very trailer, i don't really care what the CEO thinks, Kirk himself was an Israel simp and made jokes about Palestinians being bombed and participated in the cover-up of the implication of Trump in the Epstein files, defending a p*dophile and mocking children being blown apart is way more disgusting than someone taking pleasure on the death of a political figure.
what nightdive does barely qualifies as a remaster they just use mods others created and understand that they hate you more than kirk.
Nightdive never used any existing mod for their remasters AFAIK, they have great engineering capabilities, big respect for the original art of the games they remaster, offer all the needed modern and QoL options while doing their best to keep existing mods and TCs compatible not to mention the legal work they do to get some games out IP hell and re-release them.
I don't care if they hate me, i have interests in their products not them, note that Kirk is a Trump and Netanyahu shill, one hates every person that doesn't have more than 1 billion in the bank while the other sees everyone that is not part of his tribe as an inferior animal, Kirk is certainly not a hateful person but he supports people that hate all of us.
the system shock 2 remaster is SHTUP and various 3d models.
They are lying to you.
I don’t know WTF SHTUP is and what’s wrong with “various 3d models” dude, maybe you could elaborate and also explain why they’re lying to me instead.
systesm shock high definition texture update and then you got 3d models from modders. They did not do the work themselves, they got the modder to put their mods in the game, even the heretic remaster has mods in it that change the gameplay like making the crossbow shoot slow like a shotgun, i dont remember the name of the mod but civvie named it in his video review.
They literally collaborated with The Wayfarer’s Tome (The mod you’re talking about) author when they did Heretic + Hexen, in what world is this considered bad at the moment there’s a consent from both parties ? And to be honest i’d rather get an existing mod build-in into a remaster rather than having to reinstall it or even worse, making it the mod completely incompatible with the remaster which happens very very often.
So all in all:
– Dev renders the mod incompatible in the remaster like what happen with STALKER and GTA Trilogy ? Complain
– Dev makes the remaster not mod-friendly at all like what happened with Crysis and Warcraft III ? Complain
– But dev uses a fan-favorite mod for his remaster with the modder’s constent ? Still complain
Bruh…
All of it will be censored.
How censored will it be, take your guesses!
Probably a cringey disclaimer to appease Bluesky on boot like with the Tomb Raider games
Looks great! Aspyr doing what they do best for the classics. I hope they remaster True crime series next.
Aspyr.. Super low budget dev.
That's it fellas. I can die in peace.
New mods can pick it up from here and that's it for me.
Also, notice the Like/Dislike ratio of the video and the comments.
i have never said such stupidity in my life, bashing this while defending revision mod, praising nightdive who only packs up mods and does not improve the game at all, people pretend that anyone liked the old 3d models, no one did, i was there i saw it.
(You replied to the wrong comment?)
i did not i am just venting.
Please no
Looks like a*s.
First PROMO screen, and the atmosphere and look is gone.
The robot is not even casting shadow, even if there is a light source behind him.
Textures, materials, shaders look alright.
Lighting is weird, sometimes there are too sharp shadows, sometimes too soft.
Either way, this looks outdated, but Aspyr recommends Ryzen 5800 and RX 2080 LMAO.
The comment section under the YT video is just amazing.
Nobody's happy with the reveal/visuals …. lots of Nightdive mentions
nightdive is terrible all they do is pack mods.
I mean, what else would you except from the kike company with Jewish double standards that openly spews kosher bullshit and then immediately contradicts itself in just the very next sentence like this (wow, Jews and double standards, who could've even possibly thought of that!?):
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And cashes in on some brain dead goyim's non-existent "nOsTaLgIaS!!!" right alongside stealthily packing in some Jewish AIDS and Monkeypox like this:
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True story, I literally called them out for the kikes they really are before they even wrote that shit on their kike Discord server and even before they released that garbage Quake 2 (((demasturd))). And let's not even forget that they were also behind that garbage Turok 3 (((demasturd))) that hypocritically claims to be a "rEmAsTeR!!!" yet cuts things that WERE in the original (couch multiplayer).
yeah, people bash this deus ex remaster and want night dive, they argue that it doesnt adhere to the artistic style of the old games? What style? Bad graphics? But then they support stuff like this where they make changes and turok 3 remaster was legit made by porting the levels to turok 2 engine and changing things.
These remasters/remakes are made to sell on consoles mostly, PC with modding and perpetual compatibility is a no brainer.
I can bet you that the OG game with mods will still look and play better than this crap tweaked for modern audiences and consoleplebs.
"These remasters/remakes are made to sell on consoles mostly"
true but Deus Ex was a game that already had too many buttons for a keyboard, resorting to the F-number keys for augmentation toggles. god awful control scheme and impossible to cram into a controller. I'm expecting a radial menu like HR and MD used for weapons, but here also for augmentations. it will be messy because most analog sticks aren't precise enough for that many options on one wheel.
It doesn't look good enough (yet), but it's a start.
I've been waiting for a proper remaster for 25 years.
I'm glad that FINALLY we get better 3D models. I just couldn't stand the old ones anymore.
I wonder if it'll includes some gameplay improvements inspired by GMDX or something like that, OR if it'll be compatible with GMDX… Or at least if it'll be moddable.
And hopefully, GMDX developer will be able to port his mod to this new version.
But yes, I share the concerns of other users about censorship.
Let's not forget that they censored the Tomb Raider games like CRAZY.
(They were good remasters overall though.)
Deus Ex is literally the most politically incorrect game ever made (I can't believe it was even allowed, in retrospect), so I highly doubt they'll preserve everything.
I hope they got the memo about the woke era being over. Otherwise, Aspyr is going to become the most hated company in history. 😅
Deus Ex is in my Top 5 PC games, along with VTMB, The Dark Mod (or Thief 2), Streets of Rogue…And I forgot the last one.😅
they didnt censor them, they made a mistake removing a texture of a photo and put it back in.
Hopefully this releases on PC then modders can just rip the models from this remaster and place them in the RTX remix mod that would make this game look infinitely better.
you think this does not use ray tracing?
Aspyr is an automatic no-buy, and honestly, I'm considering checking out the credits of this one and noting the names of the remake staff so as to not wishlist their work in the future, as this kind of 'developer' inevitably re-emerges under a different brand when the scam starts to run dry.
By the way, there's no chance it's more than like three people tops actually working on this, so I don't think it's an extreme measure to take. Deus Ex is not a game that is hard to run on modern systems and they are using AI upscaling and seemingly haphazardly ripping models from the PS2 version.
Looks like total a*s.
Could be intressting but i wont hold my breath, modern re-whatever usually result in disapointment.
Looks absolutely terrible. They should've done Tomb Raider Legend trilogy, not this
We already have this… It's called Deus Ex: Revision…
Also, Aspyr? Don't they ruin everything they work on?
ENOUGH, revision as the name implies is not a remaster, it changes the way the game looks, sounds and feels and even has altered the level design with new areas and completely redesigned others, complaining about this remaster but supporting revision is laughable, might as well use gmdx instead that doesnt change the way the game looks and feels.
Also no aspyr remasters of tomb raider and soul reaver were excellent and obviously they were chosen because the companies who own the rights to all these 3 games are the same.
Weren't the Tomb Raider remasters broken/buggy at release? Just like the Battlefront remasters they worked on?
Also, I don't care if you like Revision or not. I don't play the original Deus Ex. I prefer Invisible War. Regardless, I'm sure that Revision is going to be better than whatever slop Aspyr sh*ts out. It's also free.
best game of my life, at that time the story was awesome, now it's just reality, i remember playing this with my dad watching, i played a whole day until i finished it
i remember deus ex being so long that i got bored by level 51 and skipped the rest. Back then it was a long game, now its short.
downgrade of the original baked lighting to bland mid-2000s real-time point light sources everywhere. cool that many of them cast shadows but indirect lighting / large scale AO were lost completely. it's overall a downgrade.
This is a blasphemy on a sacred martyr , they have to be defeated.