Detroit: Become Human

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8.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6420 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 333 out of 6420
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  1. abeeest
    May 27, 2018
    0
    David Cage expertly blends a B movie with a walking simulator. He has created, quite possibly, the most tedious form of media in existence.
    It does look pretty, but so does No man's sky.
  2. Sek
    May 25, 2018
    3
    Shame about how overtly political it is, outside of the ham-fisted political views, the movie was rather well made. Unfortunately, the writers did a poor job with representing both sides of the conflict which left the story rather flat. Blatant propaganda.
  3. Estereosonic
    May 25, 2018
    0
    Esperaba algo mejor, creo que no innova lo sufciente, sobre todo por ser una nueva generaciòn de consolas y tardaron màs de 4 años en realizar este juego. Aparte que es muy corto y no engancha en nada.
  4. halftk
    May 25, 2018
    3
    It's impossible that this game gets more than a 6. Visually is all you want, but the gameplay it's just ridiculous. Seriously, this is not a videogame anymore, is a interactive movie
  5. darek79r19
    May 26, 2018
    0
    You can play Demo in Germany with Polish dubbing, but when you buy a game, you do not even have Polish subtitles. This is how the European Union looks like when the money decides.
  6. jabobs
    May 25, 2018
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. In my opinion, nothing special about this game, the three good things in this game are Connor (aka.: really good Blade Runner material), overwall aesthetics and one chapter in abounded amusement park with creepy glitching androids, nothing more
    If you want to play this game you must prepare for typical Cage ****
    SJW stuff (robot lesbians, lesbians, white people treatens bad a good black robot)
    Religious stuff and spiritism
    Robots have a soul
    "This is not a malfunction this unit have a soul"
    Whole game is one big cutscene with QTE's
    Typical villain copied from generic cartoon - the main villain in this game is Kamski (the creator of androids, He uploads a virus into their codes so they became conscious and this type of ****
    Robots migrate to Canada because this county is so tolerant these days
    Typical Cage game nothing diffrent from Heavy Rain or Beyond experience    … Expand
  7. Foyle
    May 25, 2018
    2
    Cant say any positive about this game. Its still kinda boring like Beyond Two Souls or other games from Quantic Dream. Too much dialogs and a story that no one needs on earth. I dont have anything about David Cage, its just the "genré". the only good thing about this game is the superb graphic...
    for me definately NOT game of the year
  8. newtnoot
    May 26, 2018
    0
    I would have given the hackneyed gameplay a pass if the story was remotely interesting and passable, but unfortunately, no. Worse yet is the racism and the use of Black suffering as a crux to show off how oppressed the androids are, going as far as to use Civil Rights movement references, Black Panther iconography, and equating the struggles of androids to that of black slaves. Detroit:I would have given the hackneyed gameplay a pass if the story was remotely interesting and passable, but unfortunately, no. Worse yet is the racism and the use of Black suffering as a crux to show off how oppressed the androids are, going as far as to use Civil Rights movement references, Black Panther iconography, and equating the struggles of androids to that of black slaves. Detroit: Become Human is the ultimate middle finger to black experiences and suffering, coming from the perspective of a French studio that has, in the past, used racist caricatures in their games. The subtlety in this game is equal to that of the game beating your head in with a heavy mallet. There is none. Any attempts to be non-offending, to be non-racist, are steamrolled over by black androids singing slave songs and running away on the android "railroad." This is, by far, probably the worst release of 2018, and the year is not even over yet.… Expand
  9. LifeHistory
    May 26, 2018
    0
    What a bad movie.

    No gameplay what so ever
    The game tells you what to do all the time.
    And off course the game has good graphics Because its a movie. Every movie has good graphics.
  10. Phoqueyoumeta
    May 25, 2018
    0
    An another Cage Movie's... but story is just weird. There are so many inconsistencies, very badly written passages. If you criticize the game like a movie, it's really worthless. And unfortunate it's an interactive film, so the scenario is more important than for no other.
  11. Cl3ss
    May 25, 2018
    0
    This is not even a game, stop calling it like that, its a intereactive movie, really bad one.

    so diferente from God of war, this has no gameplay at all. So boring, terrible experience.
  12. Kytes
    May 25, 2018
    1
    Poor game (not challenging) poor movie (mostly cliches about robots). This is something in between, not saying it's bad but this particular game is not good.
  13. OnlyOneHere
    May 25, 2018
    0
    This game has too many cutscenes, this is a movie. The gameplay is horrible. There are too many QTEs. All you do in this game is press buttons and the game does the action for you. There is hardly any combat, When there is combat, it is too linear. It gives me no freedom on how i want to attack my enemies. Like I said earlier, the game plays it for you. The story is weak, and it felt likeThis game has too many cutscenes, this is a movie. The gameplay is horrible. There are too many QTEs. All you do in this game is press buttons and the game does the action for you. There is hardly any combat, When there is combat, it is too linear. It gives me no freedom on how i want to attack my enemies. Like I said earlier, the game plays it for you. The story is weak, and it felt like a story that I would see in a straight-to-DVD movie.

    If I'm not mistaken, games are suppose to be fun. This is exactly what this "game" lacks. This game has sections where you're doing chores, laundry, waiting for the bus, walking, and babysitting. These are struggles some of us go through everyday. I play games to escape all of that. This is the last thing I want in a game.

    There is no multiplayer. So once you beat the story, there is no reason to touch this game again. $60 for a 10 hour campaign with no replay value is a cashgrab. I recommend you wait for this game to drop to $10 before picking it up. If all you care about is story, just watch it on youtube and save $60.    … Expand
  14. Ky_Tree_No
    Oct 21, 2022
    4
    Ladies and Gentlemen, the CEO of Racism has officially been defeated.
  15. QuiteQuixotic
    May 16, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I’m very late to playing this game. I’ve only heard good things about it so I gave in and decided to give it a try and I was genuinely impressed with it! The story was interesting, the choices fun, and the acting great. Then suddenly that just changes. The story becomes immensely generic, the choices make no sense to what you chose, and the characters become... well... androids. They have no emotion and you don’t care about any of them. One mission on particular is incredibly embarrassing and hard to play. That is the broadcast mission where out “hero’s” get to go be generic spy’s to get into a broadcast station to state why they should be free. Except the mission makes no sense. Why was there an Android outfit in the bathroom? Who stashed it there? How come nobody saw two androids against the windows of the building full of people? How did they get up the work elevator? How did they get all this spy crap when they have nothing at Jericho? So many things make zero sense and none of your choices matter. There’s also very little direction so you’ll spend most the mission ignoring the controls to figure out where to go. I literally let Simon die because I figured it would let me get out of the mission faster. And because I didn’t even know his name and had zero attachment to him. This mission just to lazy for me. They went for something generic and “cool” and pulled it off so embarrassingly bad. And that’s how the whole end of the game feels. I couldn’t recommend this game to anyone. It just ends up heartless and lazy after the first few hours.… Expand
  16. WokeMetaCritic
    Apr 21, 2022
    1
    another typical Social Justice Game with Critical Race Theory, Training and Manipulating the youth to be apart of Social Justice Activism, Giving The Players, The choice to protest peacefully and be a Peaceful Social Justice Activist or fully blown Anarchist Social Justice Activist, Disguising Critical RaceTheory with an Android/Critical Race Theory Sentiance you clever, clever liberal,another typical Social Justice Game with Critical Race Theory, Training and Manipulating the youth to be apart of Social Justice Activism, Giving The Players, The choice to protest peacefully and be a Peaceful Social Justice Activist or fully blown Anarchist Social Justice Activist, Disguising Critical RaceTheory with an Android/Critical Race Theory Sentiance you clever, clever liberal, sons of **** may I, Remind You, Using Android Si-Fi to make the game more appealing and interesting to the Youth/Adult Gamers, hmm whichever whom may The Player Choose, Choose to become an Anarchist Social Justice Activist or Peaceful Social Justice. Activist.

    A dash of Communism Propaganda and A dash ACAB.    … Expand
  17. Thomoen
    Feb 15, 2022
    4
    Graphically stunning, but suffers from bad writing and stif performances. The pathetic way it sometimes tries to pull your heartstrings are laughably bad, but for a lot of the time the story is pretty interesting. The sad thing that it comes down to is that the narritive just doesn't diverge enough for it to justify it's existence as a interactive story, and would this be released as a tvGraphically stunning, but suffers from bad writing and stif performances. The pathetic way it sometimes tries to pull your heartstrings are laughably bad, but for a lot of the time the story is pretty interesting. The sad thing that it comes down to is that the narritive just doesn't diverge enough for it to justify it's existence as a interactive story, and would this be released as a tv show on netflix I would definitely consider it to be below average. This is in part because of the bland characters and the kind of formulaic plot this story will follow given the fact that you make the choices that are the game is wanting you to. If you make a "bad" choice the outcome is so obviously awful that you really don't feel like the path you are taking is a whole different story in of itself. This is illustrated by the fact that if you make a "bad" decision the flowchart you follow just becomes less complete. Still, the animation and environments are a technical marvel. I would recommend this to people who like high concept sci-fi movies like the matrix with a descent hero's journey, but this is definitely not the game for me.… Expand
  18. aristotle61
    Jul 14, 2019
    0
    Gee what a great "game". Whatever this is, game or interactive movie, it is disgusting. I wish I could give it a negative score. It deserves one. Detroit: Become Human is so offensive in so many ways.

    I cannot fathom the high score by users. I guess they're all part of the everyone is a victim crowd. No doubt they feel that what happens to the androids is what is happening to them too.    Gee what a great "game". Whatever this is, game or interactive movie, it is disgusting. I wish I could give it a negative score. It deserves one. Detroit: Become Human is so offensive in so many ways.

    I cannot fathom the high score by users. I guess they're all part of the everyone is a victim crowd. No doubt they feel that what happens to the androids is what is happening to them too.

    Apparently the developer thought that since everyone is so in the love with the idea that almost everyone and everything is racist that they could cash in on it by making a game or interactive movie about the desperate and unjust plight of future androids. They basically equate it with past racism and slavery.

    Personally, I say bring on the androids, but not the ones in this game, which are ridiculous and will never happen. Then again, considering they will be made and programmed by humans, maybe androids aren't a good idea.

    Anyway, if you want to watch a lot of moaning, screaming and preaching about injustice, save yourself some money and just turn on the news or go on social media.    … Expand
  19. Sh4wnC
    Jun 9, 2018
    1
    It's a glorified galgame with s****y plot and a bad sci-fi setting. I also don't like the SJW theme.
  20. Jek09
    Apr 3, 2020
    0
    Люди, объясните почему "эксклюзивность" я вляеться плюсом консоли. Это в первую очередь минус игры.
  21. SuperNaiv
    May 27, 2018
    3
    If you love to mastubrate over QTE action and press "X" to take out trash or wash dishes, then this game is for you. To the rest I wouldn't recommended. It's boring and uninspiring. I am sure there is some good story in there, but to get there you got to do a lot meaningsless tasks and a lot of meaningless busy work. Is this a game or interactive movie? I really don't know anymore. IIf you love to mastubrate over QTE action and press "X" to take out trash or wash dishes, then this game is for you. To the rest I wouldn't recommended. It's boring and uninspiring. I am sure there is some good story in there, but to get there you got to do a lot meaningsless tasks and a lot of meaningless busy work. Is this a game or interactive movie? I really don't know anymore. I rather play real games, like "God of War" or "Bloodborne", then this crap. The only good thing I can say about it is that graphics look great and the actors in this game did a good job with a material they got to work with. That's it. I am checking out!… Expand
  22. cigi_68
    May 29, 2018
    2
    Nice graphically - but all in all tedious gameplay and not story wise holding it together. Gameplay it's just ridiculous. This is not a videogame anymore, is a interactive movie - an OK one but not at all what I expect from a real game.

    "Detroit is so caught up in trying to be a movie, it forgets how to be a videogame. Not once does it tell its story through play"
  23. ps4boy
    May 26, 2018
    1
    save yourselves a few $ and go see iRobot if you want a decent android story. I wouldn’t call this a game as much as a poorly written interactive movie. Graphics look good, but how couldn’t they, everything is predetermined so it’s not very taxing. David cage is so overrated
  24. vincesz
    May 28, 2018
    4
    This game is very disappointing. I would strongly encourage players to RENT instead of buy this game. Get it off Redbox or something it is NOT WORTH $60. It's roughly 6 hours at best of gameplay.

    The game itself is reasonably engaging and explores some interesting ideas regarding AI. While certainly unrealistic and overdone in the melodrama sphere, the game is fun to play through.    This game is very disappointing. I would strongly encourage players to RENT instead of buy this game. Get it off Redbox or something it is NOT WORTH $60. It's roughly 6 hours at best of gameplay.

    The game itself is reasonably engaging and explores some interesting ideas regarding AI. While certainly unrealistic and overdone in the melodrama sphere, the game is fun to play through. There's no real replay value here, though, once its done I had no patience to redo everything or even parts of the story (which they give you options to do)

    One thing I do need to mention is that this game has more political biases of the devs being snuck into the game, which as many can guess, leans decidedly left. There's also no nudity of any kind in this game. Even when you visit the in-game android strip club, all the androids are fully clothed.    … Expand
  25. TheRealBigBoy
    May 28, 2018
    1
    It's not a game, it's a movie. A horrible movie. if you want to waste your time with another generic 'playable' movie, you can do this, but there are tons of games with a better story and even gameplay!
  26. ScienceAdvisor
    Jun 7, 2018
    3
    Ignore the people that do not realize that a game must have gameplay or it is just an interactive movie. This thing is the latter, not a game. Invisible walls, interactive actions that make no sense (lifting a food covering), and other pretend interactions. I am surprised there was not a quick time game for moving your feet when walking. So all you are getting is a CG movie with theIgnore the people that do not realize that a game must have gameplay or it is just an interactive movie. This thing is the latter, not a game. Invisible walls, interactive actions that make no sense (lifting a food covering), and other pretend interactions. I am surprised there was not a quick time game for moving your feet when walking. So all you are getting is a CG movie with the pretense of interaction, as it is just tacked on. As a movie it is a solid 8/10, but as a fake game it is only a 3/10.… Expand
  27. klse
    Jun 15, 2018
    3
    Ridiculous soap opera. Sobbing, screaming, hysterical androids - is this the future we deserve?
  28. PepeRorr
    May 25, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Una pelicula interactiva. Pero una muy aburrida vaya decepcion le tenia altas expectativas a este juego.… Expand
  29. mrjackthereaper
    Jun 6, 2018
    4
    wow, such a surprise, and also not surprise at all. quantic dream want to make a master peice after heavy rain, but,... they are fail. in this game, look like quantic dream try to build a back ground and emotional feeling for every character in the game, but they just keep make it unclear and fading by time. Even the name of the game is a huge problem and mistake: be come human. Thewow, such a surprise, and also not surprise at all. quantic dream want to make a master peice after heavy rain, but,... they are fail. in this game, look like quantic dream try to build a back ground and emotional feeling for every character in the game, but they just keep make it unclear and fading by time. Even the name of the game is a huge problem and mistake: be come human. The android dont even want to be human, they want to live like independent species(if u play the game, u will understand this). another example is: Connor, an "android robocop" simply a copy of Norman Jayden from heavy rain, they both assertive, weak voice, both detective and have a kindda vulnerable body type, but the way they build Jayden is much better. music also nearly not exist, although the sound effect is very good and quite fit the scence. talk about control, is not feel so good, u can understand this when u touch the PS4 controller, this is not a big problem but is a one of the problem will make u dont even want to keep play the game, so dont even ask about should you replay the game. The game some time have bug and models fragment even you play the game in a PS4 Pro, but maybe some time they will "help" you laugh. this game is the product made from about 6 years ago, so dont expect some thing that extra ordinary or epic in this game, cause all the time, this game tell you what to do with forced dialogs, and some moment you will feels like that should have dialogs choices, but it dont have. Just like heavy rain or beyond 2 soul, this game is drama-interactive, so dont expect any open play style element in this game, the game fill with Quick Time Event system and it's very esily get bored. Im a big fan of heavy rain, and this game is such a dissappointment, it do have style, but soon faded with bug, bored story telling, clunky control and plus some funny models fragment moment, this is the game that you just should play 1 time and go another game. If you looking for something mystery or emotional, i think Heavy rain and beyond 2 soul is much good choices for you. not this one.… Expand
  30. Ydarenie
    Jan 7, 2019
    0
    The best menu of all time. But stoty It's like a Shimalan move full of holes and klishe. How can i fell something after Conor aktivete a robot with a hole in head? Androids in this world are imortal. You can't cheet me David.
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Metascore
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 104 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 77 out of 104
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 104
  3. Negative: 2 out of 104
  1. PLAY! Zine
    Aug 18, 2019
    85
    Detroit: Become Human delivers a story with a ton of possible choices, and a lot of questions for a player to bear afterward. If you like it when games make you think about them after you play them, this is the game for you. Stunning visuals and music score, make you forget about some weaker points of the game. But all in all, it is an enjoyable experience you should not miss.
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  2. Adventure Gamers
    Dec 21, 2018
    70
    Detroit: Become Human looks and sounds great, and includes key player choices throughout, though it could have benefited greatly from a tighter script. While it’s commendable that Quantic Dream tried to cover hot-button issues in a big-budget video game, it works better when focused on the personal character moments than the bigger themes that don’t dig deep enough to make a meaningful impact.
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  3. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Sep 26, 2018
    85
    Although the narrative is fairly linear, there are enough branching paths over the course of the game to make it feel like your actions matter. That allows Detroit to still be fun even on multiple playthroughs – and for an interactive movie, that’s a rare praise. [Issue#231, p.68]
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