Deus Ex Breach offers an arcade-like mode for stealing corporate secrets

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 18, 2016
Updated June 19, 2025
4 min

If you need a break from the massive campaign in the upcoming console and PC game, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, you can turn to a quasi-multiplayer mode that will come with the game called Deus Ex Breach.

Deus Ex Breach will be packaged with the main game as an arcade-like experience that lets you play short missions where your goal is to break into a corporate server and escape from the guards — while on a timer. If you escape quickly, you can challenge your friends to beat your time. The experience mirrors the gameplay of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, but it’s shorter, and the art is much more abstract.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.