Two long-running fan projects for original Deus Ex received fresh updates: Deus Ex: Revision picked up a 10th‑anniversary refresh that adds a saved passwords/keycode toggle plus fixes, and The Nameless Mod got a significant overhaul with new levels, secrets, items, and modes.
Reaction to Aspyr’s official remaster has been mixed, so many others complained, but fans have long had alternatives. One of the most complete is Deus Ex: Revision. This fan-made modernization bundles popular gameplay overhauls and lets you toggle the extras off to play vanilla DX1 on modern systems.
To mark its 10th anniversary, Revision just got its first update since 2023. The patch polishes a handful of bugs and adds quality‑of‑life memory features, including a saved passwords/keycode option that will auto‑fill codes you find into terminals, which is a surprisingly handy thing when you have dozens of notes scattered across a playthrough.
At the same time, The Nameless Mod received a mammoth patch. TNM is a total conversion that began in 2009 and leans hard into forum-born, tongue‑in‑cheek storytelling; despite some dated humor, it nails the variable approaches that made the original Deus Ex great. The update, which took three years to assemble, includes brand new levels, additional secrets, more items, new modes, and several compatibility improvements. It also adopts the password manager feature from the Revision update.
If you want to play, TNM can be installed via the DX:R Steam Workshop. And for nostalgic players who remember the mod’s earliest days, there’s a separate toggle to load the original ’09 maps at the start of a new game. *Small aside: that line about the remaster being alarmingly shiny? It inspired a silly book title I once pitched. Moving on.
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