Detroit: Become Human is a Franco-American adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It was released for the PlayStation 4 in May 2018. Quantic Dream released a port for Windows under license from Sony in December 2019. 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. Detroit: Become Human is based on Quantic Dream's 2012 technology demonstration Kara, which also starred Curry. 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. Philip Sheppard, Nima Fakhrara, and John Paesano served as composers for Kara, Connor, and Markus, respectively. 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. It is Quantic Dream's most successful launch and best-selling game, at 11 million units sold by December 2024. Detroit: Become Human is an adventure game played from a third-person view, which is subject to a set and controllable perspective.There are 8 playable characters who can die as the story continues without them; as a result, there is no "game over" message following a character's death.The right analogue stick on the DualShock controller is used to interact with objects and observe one's surroundings, the left is for movement, and R2 scans an environment for possible actions; the motion controls and touchpad are also employed. Via quick time events and dialogue decisions, the story will branch out depending on which choices are made.These can be viewed in a flowchart during and immediately after a given chapter; the player can rewind to certain points in the story to reshape decisions in the event of regret.Certain scenes feature countdowns, which force quick action.Levels abound with magazines for players to read.The playable characters are: Connor, a police investigator android tasked with hunting down androids that have deviated from their programmed behaviors.Kara, a housekeeper android who develops artificial consciousness and becomes for a young girl's safety.Markus, a caretaker android who, after gaining consciousness, takes it upon himself to free others like him from bondage.Obtaining clues by highlighting and analysing the environment with augmented vision allows Connor to reconstruct and replay events that occurred before.The more information Connor collects within an allotted time, the greater the chance of success in deciding a course of action.Markus has the ability to grant androids free will and calculate the outcomes of certain acts. Set in 2038, 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.Markus awakes in a landfill of broken androids and, after escaping, discovers Jericho, a derelict freighter and safe haven for deviants. There, Markus rallies the others to fight for their rights.They perform several acts of civil disobedience, which catch the public's attention and get more androids to join.This may culminate with the FBI attacking Jericho depending on Connor's actions.If he survives, Markus and the others set up a final march to an android recycling centre, resulting in either a war breaking out or the president opening peace talks. Police investigator android Connor is sent by the CyberLife corporation to assist Detroit Police Department Lieutenant Hank Anderson, an alcoholic who hates androids.In the course of their investigation into an outbreak of deviants, they either develop a bond or enmity,potentially resulting in Hank committing suicide.During his hunt for Markus' group, Connor starts to deviate, but can also preserve his programming, depending on player choice.He eventually locates Jericho,where he can become a deviant himself.If he defects, Connor infiltrates CyberLife Tower and attempts to convert all androids there into deviants.