Deus Ex: The Fall is a first-person role-playing shooter in a cyberpunk style. The game is set in 2027, a golden era for science, technology and human development, but also during a time of great social divide and global conspiracy. Powerful corporations have seized control from governments and control the supply of medicines that enhanced humans need to survive. In the chaos, Ben Saxon, a former British SAS mercenary who has undergone physical enhancement, desperately tries to discover the truth about the drug plot.