Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link

The Missing Link is the first and only standalone downloadable episode add-on for Deus Ex: Human Revolution; it explains what happened to Adam Jensen during his three-day disappearance after he left Hengsha a…

88 18 October 2011

Role-playing (RPG) Shooter Action Science fiction Stealth

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Eidos Montréal, released 18 October 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link is

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Eidos Montréal and released in 2011. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Crystal Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Deus Ex: Human Revolution – The Missing Link is a standalone downloadable episode for the action role-playing stealth video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Developed by Eidos Montréal and published by Square Enix, it was released digitally worldwide in October 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360. Later releases of the main game made The Missing Link available on OS X and Wii U.

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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, science fiction and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 8 hrs.

What it launched against

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link launched on 18 October 2011, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

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