System Shock

2023

79Overall (55 ratings)

77User (49 ratings)

80Critics (6)

Engine: Unreal Engine 4, Nvidia PhysX

After 22 years, cyberpunk cult classic System Shock is getting an update. A "reimagined" version of the 1994 Windows PC game is in the works at Night Dive Studios for PC and Xbox One, and it's a project that company founder Stephen Kick says he can hardly believe is really happening.

Genres

Shooter Role-playing (RPG)Simulator Adventure

Platforms

LinuxPCMacPS4XONESwitchPS5Series X|SSwitch 2

Themes

ActionScience fictionHorror

Modes

Single player

Perspectives

First person

Storyline

You're a renowned hacker, the most notorious cyberspace thief in the corporate world. Caught during a risky break-in, you become indentured to a greedy TriOptimum executive. After six months in a healing coma, you awaken to the twisted aftermath of a terrible disaster. Where are the surgeons? Why is the station in such disrepair? Slowly, the chilling realization that something is very wrong creeps over you. Once a prime corporate research facility, Citadel Station now teems with mindless cyborgs, robots and terribly mutated beings, all programmed to serve SHODAN, a ruthless A.I. There's scarcely time to think before it unleashes the first terror...