NOTE: At time of writing I had played 44 hours¹ of Looting Simulator 2029, without starting the main mission.

This game is called Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, which is technically correct as it is a Deus Ex game where Mankind is indeed Divided. But the proper name for it is Looting Simulator 2029.

The game consists of a tutorial, then you get dumped into Prague with the initial mission "Go to work and meet your boss". I have not yet gotten around to this mission. There are lots of side-missions, and Prague is there for you to loot.

You start by waking up in your apartment. You could leave and go to work, sure. Or before you go, you could break into everybody else's apartments and loot all their stuff.

There are many ways of looting. You can break in via their side windows, or crawl through a vent to enter, or just shoot their door open. Sometimes you can make trick jumps to find hidden entrances. You can hack anything that moves, or you can collect a vast array of passwords and PINs. Once in, you can read their e-mail, steal their money, steal their guns, steal their alcohol for your massive alcohol collection, rearrange their furniture, punch holes in their walls, and create huge piles of human corpses on their bed.

Occasionally you read stuff in their e-mails that makes you feel guilty. It's a hard life in 2029 and some of it really hits you in the feels.

You sell your loot to the local arms dealer. Then you break his security, steal his personal stuff, and sell that to him too.

When you're not looting, you can roam the open world and hack that, too. For example, I found a clandestine drug lab in the sewers. It was probably connected to a mission later in the game, but who cares about that? Drugs are bad. That's all I need to know so I shot the entire thing up. You can thank me later.

There is a main storyline in Looting Simulator 2029 but the developers do an excellent job of making you not care. Apparently you're working for the good guys, but they're not good at all. You're told that you're loyal to characters you barely even know, which makes no sense whatsoever in the Deus Ex universe. Anyway you can break into (and loot) your boss' house before meeting him; it has a giant Australian flag, which means either he's bogan or the developers are ham-fisted storytellers.

For the experience of looting, stealing, and causing general chaos, Looting Simulator 2029 delivers.

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¹ Under a Steam Family Sharing account (link), not this one