Recent years have been hard for Deus Ex fans. When the third game in the Adam Jensen trilogy was unceremoniously canceled in 2017, many fans thought the franchise would fall into another long hiatus the way it did after Invisible War. Because of this, it came as a surprise when, in 2022, there was the surprise announcement that Eidos Montreal was working on a new Deus Ex game. Then, earlier this year, after two years with no updates, it was announced that the game had been canceledanother victim of Embracer Groups long and relentless series of cancelations.