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Overview

About System Shock

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.
Story setup
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...
Reference

At a glance

Released
May 30, 2023
Platforms
PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Linux, Nintendo Switch 2, macOS
Genres
Shooter, RPG, Simulation, Adventure, Action
Play modes
Single Player
Age rating
ESRB M
Media

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Playing together

Multiplayer & game modes

System Shock offers various play modes for different gaming experiences.

Play Modes

Single Player

Content

Age ratings

How rating boards around the world have classified System Shock. Open a board for its content descriptors.

ACBMA 15+

Strong violence, blood and gore

CLASS_IND16
ESRBM
  • Blood and Gore
  • Intense Violence
  • Language
GRAC19+
  • Violence
  • Language
  • Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug
PEGI18
  • Bad Language
  • Violence
USK16

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