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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided: Dubai, Prague and London
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided opens in a half-built Dubai hotel, moves to a near-future Prague, and ends at a London summit. The game's city is a fiction: Prague is compressed into three invented districts, while Dubai's hotel and London's Apex Centre do not exist. But each stop stands on a real place, and this route follows the story from Dubai to the Vltava and the Thames, using the real cities, the real model for Golem City and the real Alpine range as anchors.
The six stops follow the main mission order, from the Dubai prologue through Prague, Golem City and the Swiss Alps to the London finale.
Contains major story spoilers.
Timeline & locations
What do the location labels mean?
- Fictional
- The place exists only in the story; any pin marks a real-world stand-in or inspiration.
The game opens in Dubai, where Adam Jensen and a TF29 team close in on an arms deal inside an unfinished luxury hotel. Jensen crosses an abandoned skyscraper, taking out members of the Jinn gang on his way to the meeting. The hotel is invented, but the city is not: the developers drew on Zaha Hadid's architecture, and Dubai's real skyline includes the Burj Khalifa.
Location precision: The unfinished hotel is invented; the pin marks Dubai, the real city it stands in.
Sources
- Humanity tears itself apart in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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- The Dubai mission; the Prague bombing; Golem City
- Exploring Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's massive new cyberpunk world
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- Hands-on preview: Dubai hotel and Prague slum
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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- Setting; Plot; Development; Art design
- Dubai
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- Introduction
- Humanity tears itself apart in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Jensen comes back to Prague by train and reaches Růžička Station just as a bomb goes off. The blast kills bystanders and damages his augmentations, setting the investigation in motion. The station is invented, but the pin marks Prague's main railway station, the largest in the city and the largest Art Nouveau monument in the Czech Republic. It opened in 1871 as Franz Josef Station; its hall and platforms still form the city's principal rail terminus, with Metro line C connections.
Location precision: Růžička Station is invented; the pin marks Prague's main railway station, the real terminus that plays the same role.
Visitor guidance: Praha hlavní nádraží is the city's main station, on Metro line C; the game's Růžička station is invented.
Sources
- Humanity tears itself apart in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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- The Dubai mission; the Prague bombing; Golem City
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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- Setting; Plot; Development; Art design
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Desperate Measures
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- Game description
- Praha hlavní nádraží
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- Introduction; Present
- Humanity tears itself apart in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Most of the game happens in this invented Prague, a compressed city of three districts: a poor quarter south of the railway, an old red-light quarter and a modern quarter. Jensen keeps an apartment here, and the hub is dense with shops, bars and apartments. The Palisade Bank heist and the Dvali Theatre infiltration both unfold in these streets. The real Prague is the model: Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque buildings, a historic centre on the UNESCO World Heritage list, the Vltava, and the same mix of old and new architecture the developers wanted.
Location precision: Překážka and the other districts are invented; the pin marks Prague, the real city they are built from.
Visitor guidance: Prague's historic centre is on the UNESCO World Heritage list; the game's districts are fictional.
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- Prague
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- Introduction
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - Building Prague City Hub
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- The three Prague districts and their architecture
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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- Setting; Plot; Development; Art design
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided excels at creating unscripted thrills - review
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- Prague hub
- Prague
Jensen is sent to Golem City, the ghetto on Prague's outskirts where ARC is based, to confront Rucker. After the confrontation, Marchenko takes his place and steers ARC towards militancy. The place is fictional, but its model is real: Kowloon Walled City, the ungoverned Hong Kong enclave that packed about 33,000 people into 2.6 hectares by 1987. It was demolished between 1993 and 1994 and replaced by Kowloon Walled City Park, which now occupies the site.
Location precision: Golem City is invented; the pin marks Kowloon Walled City, the real settlement the developers used as its model.
Visitor guidance: Kowloon Walled City Park is in Kowloon City, Hong Kong; the park opened in 1995.
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- Kowloon Walled City
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- Introduction; Current status as a park
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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- Setting; Plot; Development; Art design
- Humanity tears itself apart in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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- The Dubai mission; the Prague bombing; Golem City
- Kowloon Walled City
Jensen follows the Orchid trail to Marchenko's base in the Swiss Alps, where he is captured and injected with Orchid; his altered biology lets him survive. The mission is called G.A.R.M. The base is fictional, but the range is real: the Swiss Alps are the Alpine region of Switzerland and contain almost all the highest mountains of the Alps.
Location precision: G.A.R.M. is invented; the pin marks the Swiss Alps, the real range named in the game.
Sources
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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- Setting; Plot; Development; Art design
- Swiss Alps
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- Introduction
- Walkthrough - Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Guide
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- The Swiss Alps; Mission 13
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
The trail ends in London, where Brown's summit is held at the Apex Centre. Brown refuses to call things off, Marchenko's men infiltrate the convention centre, and Jensen has to secure the building before the attack can go further. The Apex Centre is fictional, but the city is real: London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom, stands on the River Thames. Brown's fate and Marchenko's actions decide whether the Human Restoration Act passes or is blocked.
Location precision: The Apex Centre is invented; the pin marks London, the real city where the summit takes place.
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- London
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- Introduction
- Deus Ex Mankind Divided: Apex Convention Centre Quests and maps
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- Apex Convention Centre
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
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- Setting; Plot; Development; Art design
- London