After security officer Adam Jensen is wounded in a terrorist strike, he is operated upon with bio-augmentations that keep him alive, while simultaneously giving him superhuman abilities. Now tasked with finding out who was behind this fatal attack, Adam travels the world as he uncovers conspiracies, secrets and machinations that can bring the world to the brink of destruction.

In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, players face a challenge of choices - between lethal and non-lethal approaches, between stealth and action, between moral decisions and between deciding who is right and who isn't. In a complex and deep story, it is now up to Adam to find the truth about the world and about himself.