The video game world is a “disaster zone” right now, according to Elias Toufexis, a Canadian actor who is best known to gamers as the voice behind Adam Jensen, the protagonist of Eidos-Montréal’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided games. Toufexis shared the thought on X this week as part an announcement about how a few of his projects have now been canceled, complemented by a letter to fans on r/Deusex about how Jensen’s story “seems done.”
Toufexis on his career challenges:
I am presently working on two or three other games but I'd expect them all to be canceled before the end of the week or something.
— ᴇʟɪᴀꜱ ᴛᴏᴜꜰᴇxɪꜱ 🖖 (@EliasToufexis) February 8, 2024
Toufexis’ recent credits include:
- Star Trek: Discovery (L’ak) (2024)
- Starfield (Sam Coe) (2023)
- Star Trek: Resurgence (Galvan) (2023)
- Gotham Knights (Oswald Cobblepot) (2022)
- Saints Row (Marshall Characters) (2022)
- As Dusk Falls (Vince) (2022)
- Horizon Forbidden West (Additional Voices) (2022)
Toufexis on Jensen’s future:
As for Jensen, we say goodbye, but hopefully not farewell. Maybe someone else will buy the license. Maybe we’ll make an animated series or finish the game. Elon Musk is a big fan, I think he has some money. Someone ask him! 😉
As you guys all know, Jensen is one of the characters I’ve played who is near and dear to my heart. It seems I will always be associated with him and that’s just fine with me.
Alas, his story seems done. I’m relatively certain the game that was canceled was not an Adam Jensen story, so the cancellation angers me more than anything else because friends at Eidos got laid off. Videogame companies right now are in a weird place. I hope it gets straightened out.
Again, I just wanted to thank you all for the time you’ve spent sending fan art, stories, and general messages of love. The amount of CAMEO appearances I’ve had to make solely for Jensen fans makes my heart smile.
I hope you like the other work I’m fortunate enough to put out there, but I know that whatever the character is, he won’t mean as much as Adam Jensen does to a lot of you… and to me.