Detroit: Become Human

Intense overall intensity
Highest flag: Dark themes — graphic
AdventureModern/RealisticSci-fi

What's in it

Dark themes graphic
High

Heavy subject matter including slavery and civil-rights allegory, domestic abuse, child endangerment, and android servitude and destruction.

Torture player commits it
High

During an interrogation the player can rough up and psychologically pressure a captured android to extract information.

Prostitution / sex work player can engage
High

Androids are rented for sex at the Eden Club, which the player enters and can pay to use as part of an investigation.

Language strong
High

Strong profanity including f-words, largely from the human detective Hank and other characters.

Violence realistic
Moderate

Realistic gunfights, beatings, and killings involving humans and androids, with blood at crime scenes; several scenes let the player kill or spare characters.

Nudity partial/artistic
Moderate

Android 'Traci' models appear in revealing lingerie and semi-nude behind club glass in the Eden Club scenes.

Substances depicted
Moderate

Heavy alcohol use by an alcoholic lieutenant, and an in-world street drug called 'red ice' is referenced and depicted; the player does not use them.

Crime & lawlessness player commits crime
Moderate

Crimes such as theft, break-ins, and killings are depicted, and the player can choose to commit some of them.

Suicide & self-harm depicted
Moderate

A main human character can die by suicide depending on player choices, and suicide is discussed in his backstory.

Mutilation / body horror depicted
Moderate

Damaged and dismembered androids with severed limbs appear, notably in a landfill of discarded android bodies.

Sexual content innuendo
Moderate

An 'Eden Club' chapter features android sex partners for hire in a neon strip-club setting, with suggestive posing and dialogue but no explicit acts.

Horror & psychological spooky
Low

Occasional tense and unsettling moments, such as scavenging android corpse dumps, without a sustained horror focus.

Sexual violence referenced
Low

A subplot references a customer abusing an android sex worker, who kills him during the encounter.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Detroit: Become Human is a story-driven, choice-based adventure set in a near-future city where lifelike androids serve humans and some begin to gain self-awareness. You control three androids across branching storylines, making dialogue choices and completing timed action prompts that reshape events, including who lives and who dies. Content includes realistic gun and physical violence against humans and androids with visible blood, strong profanity, heavy drinking and a fictional street drug, an android sex club with suggestive scenes and near-nude figures, an interrogation the player can escalate, and mature subject matter such as child abuse, oppression, and suicide.

How it's framed

The game frames its violence and cruelty as consequences of a society that treats androids as property, using their mistreatment as a civil-rights allegory and repeatedly asking the player to weigh compassion against self-preservation. Choices are presented without a scripted 'correct' answer, and the branching outcomes let harm, sacrifice, and forgiveness all follow directly from the player's decisions.

Details

Developer
Quantic Dream
Publisher
Quantic Dream
Released
Jun 18, 2020
Metacritic 80critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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