It was released for the PlayStation 4 in May Quantic Dream released a port for Windows under license from Sony in December The plot follows three androids : Kara Valorie Curry , who escapes her owner to explore her newfound sentience and protect a young girl; Connor Bryan Dechart , whose job is to hunt down sentient androids; Markus Jesse Williams , who devotes himself to releasing other androids from servitude. The player's choices affect the course and outcome of the story.
To research the setting, the developers visited Detroit, Michigan. Writer and director David Cage completed the script in over two years. An engine was built to complement the game and hundreds of actors were cast before shooting and animation.
Detroit: Become Human received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the setting, visuals, story, main characters, the quality of motion capture and voice acting, the impact choices had on the narrative, and flowchart feature, but criticised the motion controls, mishandling of historical and thematic allegories, and aspects of the plot and characters. In addition to being Quantic Dream's most successful launch, it is also the company's best-selling game, at over 10 million units sold as of October Detroit: Become Human is an adventure game played from a third-person view , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] which is subject to a set and controllable perspective.
Via quick time events and dialogue decisions , [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] the story will branch out depending on which choices are made. Obtaining clues by highlighting and analysing the environment with augmented vision allows Connor to reconstruct and replay events that occurred before. Set in , caretaker android Markus and his owner return home and alert the police of a suspected burglary. In confronting the perpetrator, Markus bypasses his programming, thereby becoming a deviant android with full autonomy and sentience , leading the police to shoot him at arrival.
There, Markus rallies the others to fight for their rights. This will result in an altercation with another "machine" Connor model, Connor, who may have Hank hostage depending on if he is alive.
