1. Invisible War Revised (Original post by Defaultplayer001)

Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Deusex/comments/lkxpd3/fan_reimagining_of_deus_ex_invisible_war/

“IWR is a re-imagining of Deus Ex Invisible War. You play as the occasionally psychotic amnesiac Alex Denton as he struggles through the vast conspiracies he encounters during his dangerous career as a… delivery boy.” -Best description I could come up with when pressed.

This is a mod I’m really excited is seeing the light of day, albeit in this incomplete “demo” form.

If you’ve browsed the Deus Ex ModDB list you may have heard of this mod before.

Announced in 2011, the last that was heard from it was a trailer being uploaded in 2013.

With a relatively large number of screenshots uploaded, and the concepts of both de-making and re-imagining Invisible War being both generally beloved by the community; it tantalized the imagination of a number of users and was often - for unreleased mods at least - talked about among those who knew of it.

Myself included.

The particular mystery of this mod and it’s creator were one me and Xen, my partner on the /r/DXArchive project often talked about.

I did do my best to reach out and see if the creator had any files they’d be willing to share with the archive, as I often do.

Unfortunately it soon became apparent that the creator had passed.

We did our best to archive what we could surrounding the project, but then moved on other projects, though he still came up in our conversations.

People often say that nothing uploaded on the internet will ever go away, people who archive data know this unfortunately isn’t true.

However miracles do happen!

One user among the very few users who downloaded a in-progress build from the creator kept it!

Not only that, they are actually a prominent member of the community!

It was under our noses the whole time!

Thankfully another user, Poke, had done research and found the now relatively ancient forum thread where the creator posted about it: http://www.offtopicproductions.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=11429&p=101560&hilit=invisible+war+revised#p101560

They then put 2 and 2 together and noticed the one user. Veronika, who got it working was still active today!

After simply asking her about it this long lost mod was re-discovered.

However the mod was packaged in an unplayable state, and even when repackaged there were a large number of issues, including notably becoming completely unplayable near the end.

So over the past 2 weeks Poke and I have been fixing up the mod, him working on the maps and me the conversations.

It’s been a lot of work, but we’ve finally gotten it in a state we feel is ready for general release. (Though it’s far from perfect!)

Also, the soundtrack was full of pop songs.

Which I loved, but it was pretty obvious not everyone would love them.

Poke graciously spared your ears and switched out the tracks with ones from Invisible War.

Even I have to admit they fit a lot better. (Though I also still made a patch with the original songs!)

We hope you enjoy the mod, though we know it might not be to everyone’s taste.

Download: https://www.moddb.com/mods/deus-ex-invisible-war-revised-iwr/downloads/invisible-war-revised-community-update

2. DXVetery

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Deusex/comments/ola8xq/dxvetery_a_short_yet_unique_deus_ex_mod_has_been/

DXVetery , while not as grand as our previous find, Invisible War Revised, was recently found!

Now this was never truly lost, in the saying that it was never properly released, it’s just that the installer on the Moddb page was not a true installer at all! It instead connected to a now non-existent server to then download the files.

Well, how was this found?

I was scrolling through the files tab on Moddb, looking for a Deus Ex mod to try out, when I came across DXVetery. The installer didn’t work, so I asked around in the Deus Ex Community HQ Discord Server if anyone had it. And Lo and Behold, /u/defaultplayer001

still had it on their computer!

The mod was fully intact, though only I had problems with the exe.

The only thing I did change was fixing the very weird audio leveling going on with the intro song.

So what’s the mod about?

It’s a sequel to the Helios Ending. The uniqueness of the mod comes from two things. A “God Implant” where you can code your own augmentations with LUA and a dynamic soundtrack that can detect certain actions, such as lockpicking. Oh! And you can tame Greasels!!

The LUA augmentation I think is very groundbreaking! There’s a video on the Moddb page that teaches you how to use it and everything. Hell, this could be used for programming classes!

Anyways, here’s the files and the Moddb page. Oh wait! There’s some dev docs in the Help folder (which were taken from the now defunct website), along with a Readme if the game doesn’t launch correctly.

Just put the DXVetery folder in you’re DeusEx folder and you’re ready to go!

ModDB Page: https://www.moddb.com/mods/dxvetery

Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypYB0l82JBY

Download: https://www.archive.org/details/DXVetery

3. The Desolate Project

The Desolate Project was intended to be a fan sequel to the popular Nameless Mod. The project ended up being abandoned. A developer of the mod contacted me and sent me their beta copy. You will need TNM v1.04 installed. It’s pretty broken and most maps won’t work.

https://archive.org/details/Deus-Ex-TDP

4. Summer 101

Heh, this is one I’m working on, over 10 years since it was abandoned. I got this one from the same modder who gave me IWR. It was intended to be a Bully-like slice-of-life mod. I and a few others (but mostly me lol) have decided to complete this mod with our own original story and characters. It will be called Two Losers: A Summer 101 Story. I did take a ~1.5 year hiatus from the project to work on my youtube channel, but the project is back online.

The download to the original summer 101 is private rn, but if you dig hard in the DXHQ discord, you can find an upload. I however have uploaded a portion of the soundtrack.

Soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fwua29vIik

https://www.moddb.com/mods/summer-101