Detroit
You were Adam Jensen, security chief at Sarif Industries. Mercenaries nearly killed you and apparently murdered researcher Megan Reed and her team. Mechanical augmentations kept you alive. Six months later, a factory hostage crisis brought you back to work. Who survived depended on your actions. An augmented intruder killed himself under remote control, giving you a trail back to the attackers.
Hengsha and Montreal
You defeated mercenary Lawrence Barrett and followed his lead to Hengsha. Hacker Arie van Bruggen implicated Tai Yong Medical chief Zhao Yun Ru. Inside her headquarters, you discovered that Megan and the scientists had been abducted. The trail led to Montreal and newsreader Eliza Cassan, an artificial intelligence manipulating public opinion. After defeating Yelena Fedorova, you learned that Isaias Sandoval had concealed the scientists' tracking signals.
The return journey
You returned to Detroit, where David Sarif suspected the Illuminati. Sandoval revealed that he had changed the trackers' frequencies; his survival depended on your decisions. The signal drew you back to Hengsha, where Belltower shot down your aircraft. Saving pilot Faridah Malik depended on you. The trail ended at a stolen arm, but Tong Si Hung helped you reach a departing Belltower ship.
Rifleman Bank Station
You were discovered aboard the ship and tortured, then drawn into Netanya Keitner's investigation of Belltower's secret prison and human experiments. Keitner died fighting soldiers, and commander Pieter Burke released poison gas. Which prisoners and witnesses survived depended on your intervention; you could save everyone threatened by the gas. After confronting Burke, you received help from the mysterious Garvin Quinn and resumed your journey in cryosleep.
Omega Ranch
You reached Singapore and found the surviving researchers. The Illuminati had used their work to build control mechanisms into replacement augmentation chips. You defeated Jaron Namir and finally reached Megan. She admitted using your unusual DNA without permission for her research. Then Hugh Darrow activated a signal from his Arctic installation, Panchaea. Across the world, people carrying the new chips became violently delusional.
Panchaea
You traveled to Panchaea to stop the signal. Darrow had turned the Illuminati's control scheme into a massacre intended to discredit augmentation itself. You faced the victims throughout the damaged installation. In its depths, Zhao merged with the Hyron supercomputer. You destroyed the system, killing her and ending the transmission. Eliza then offered you control over the account the world would hear.
Your final choiceThe ending
You chose how the crisis would be explained: expose Darrow and the Illuminati, blame anti-augmentation extremists to protect technological progress, or blame contaminated medication to encourage tighter control. Alternatively, you could destroy Panchaea with yourself and everyone inside, leaving no account. Your fate at the installation depended on that decision; no shared escape was shown. After the credits, Megan was revealed to be working for Bob Page.
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