{"title":"Conspiracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eConspiracy is the story where the visible order turns out to be a front. Somewhere behind the government, the corporation or the agency that gave you your orders sits a smaller group that actually decides things, and the game is the process of finding out who they are, how long they have been at it and how far up the chain it goes. The subject came into games with its paranoia intact from the thrillers and secret-history novels that shaped it, and the title that set the template is Ion Storm's Deus Ex from 2000, which sent agent JC Denton from a routine counter-terrorism assignment into a layered scheme of shadow governments and secret societies, each reveal reframing the one before it. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty in 2001 pushed the idea until the player's own mission was revealed as part of the plot, and the Assassin's Creed series built a franchise on a centuries-long war between two hidden orders fought underneath recorded history. The first title in this collection, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided from 2016, carries the tradition forward to 2029, where Adam Jensen's investigation of terror attacks pinned on the augmented community turns out to be the thin surface of a scheme to control the future of mankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe hallmarks are consistent across the form. The truth arrives in layers, so the person you answer to in the first hour is rarely the person pulling the strings in the last, and the scale keeps widening from a single crime to an organization to the people who own the organization. Trust is treated as a decision rather than a given: allies have agendas, briefings omit things, and the game will often ask you outright who to believe when two accounts of the same event cannot both be true. The texture is documentary. Intercepted emails, hacked terminals, memos left on desks and conversations overheard through a vent are how the network is mapped, which is why the subject pairs so naturally with stealth and infiltration. What separates a good conspiracy game from a merely competent one is whether the reveals recontextualize what you have already done or simply arrive as a twist at the end. The best examples keep the network specific and plausible, with named people who want particular things, and let the player feel the ground shift under a mission they thought they understood; the weakest connect everything to everything until nothing means anything, and the reveal lands as a shrug.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection gathers the titles in our catalog that carry the Conspiracy tag. It is a subject tag rather than a genre, so a conspiracy game can be a shooter, an RPG, a stealth game or an adventure, and most of these titles sit in our Story Rich collection as well, with many in Choices Matter, because who you trust is usually something you decide rather than discover. It is worth separating from its neighbors. Our Mystery collection is a puzzle to be solved, often a single crime or event, with no hidden power structure required; Investigation and Detective name the mechanics of gathering and weighing evidence; Thriller names pacing and tension; and in our Dystopian collection the oppressive order is out in the open rather than hidden behind the one you can see. What qualifies a game here is that the story turns on a concealed network of power, and that uncovering it, piece by piece, is the point. If you want the moment where the mission you were given turns out to be the cover story, start here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"deus-ex-mankind-divided-steam-cd-key","title":"Deus Ex: Mankind Divided","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eDeus Ex: Mankind Divided picks up two years after Human Revolution, in a 2029 where the Aug Incident has turned mechanically augmented people into second-class citizens. Adam Jensen, now an Interpol agent with Task Force 29, works a Prague of checkpoints and curfews while quietly feeding intelligence to the Juggernaut Collective, and a terrorist bombing at the city's main station pulls him into a conspiracy that reaches far above the people he reports to. Eidos-Montréal's sequel keeps the series' promise: stealth, combat, hacking and conversation are all valid answers to every problem, and the game never tells you which one to pick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMankind Divided: Life Under Mechanical Apartheid\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Aug Incident of 2027 left the world terrified of augmented humans, and Mankind Divided makes that fear the texture of daily life. Jensen is stopped at police checkpoints, ordered into the augmented-only metro car and called a \"clank\" on the street. Prague is the main hub, a dense city of apartments, sewers, shopfronts and back rooms that rewards poking into every locked door, and the walled district of Golem City shows where segregation leads once the cameras stop watching. Familiar faces like Eliza Cassan return alongside new ones, and the Augmented Rights Coalition led by Talos Rucker gives the augmented population a voice that TF29 has been told to treat as a threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eHuman 2.0: Build the Operative You Want to Be\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJensen wakes with a set of experimental augmentations hidden in his body, and unlocking them is the heart of character growth. Praxis Kits spend on whatever suits your approach, from heavy combat tools to the quiet abilities that let you clear a level without anyone knowing you were there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eTitan Armor and the TESLA Arm\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eTitan hardens Jensen's body into a shell that shrugs off gunfire for a few precious seconds, while the TESLA arm fires guided non-lethal shocks at up to four targets at once. Together they let a direct approach feel every bit as deliberate as a stealthy one.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eIcarus Dash and Remote Hacking\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eIcarus Dash covers ground in a blink and can carry you to ledges no ladder reaches, opening routes the level never advertises. Remote Hacking disables cameras, turrets and laser grids from cover, so a patrolled corridor becomes a puzzle rather than a firefight.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eWeapons You Customize in the Field\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003ePistols, shotguns, rifles and the classic stun gun all take scopes, silencers and ammo swaps you can change mid-mission straight from the inventory. Lethal and non-lethal loadouts sit side by side, and the game keeps track of which one you reach for.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMeaningful Choices and Consequences\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery mission in Mankind Divided can be finished several ways, and the game watches the how as closely as the what. Sneak past a guard or knock him out, talk a hostile witness down with the CASIE social enhancer or press him until he breaks, and the reports that follow change accordingly. Larger decisions carry further: who Jensen chooses to trust inside TF29 and the Collective, whether he follows a lead in Prague or leaves it for a side mission, and which of two crises he answers in the final hours. Those calls determine what he learns about the conspiracy and how the story resolves, which makes a second playthrough feel like a genuinely different investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBuilt for Your Way of Playing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdjustable difficulty ranges from a story-first setting to a punishing mode where Jensen falls quickly, and you can save anytime, so experimenting with a risky route costs you nothing but a reload.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull controller support with DualShock and DualSense recognition means the game plays as comfortably from the couch as at a desk, and Steam Achievements track the ghost runs, pacifist clears and hidden discoveries worth chasing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull voice acting in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Brazilian Portuguese, plus subtitle options and custom volume controls, let you tune the presentation to your setup.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrague is waiting, and so is the truth behind the bombing. Pick up Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, decide what kind of agent Adam Jensen is going to be, and find out how far up the conspiracy really goes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eidos Interactive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36005032204,"sku":"PC_9968628172_DL_GL","price":9.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-deus-ex-mankind-divided-pc-steam-game.jpg?v=1789348036"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/en-ie\/collections\/conspiracy.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}