Nightdive Studios is slowly closing in on the finish line, but the studio still has to do some distance to get there.

Let’s start with the fact that on Steam, you can find a demo of the System Shock remake, allowing you to quickly experience what the studio has done with one of the evergreen classic games: improving many aspects, while also keeping the roots of the original at the same time.

In the seven-minute gameplay video, our hacker provides a solid slice of what we can expect, proving that the 1994 original experience can still provide some thrills two and a half decades later. Aside from hacking, we see some exploration, alternate routes, a few robots and mutants, and the work Nightdive Studios has done regarding the user interface seems exciting, too. (However, pumping all the shotgun ammo into a giant robot at the end of the video doesn’t make much sense….)

System Shock, which features a hacker who awakens on the Citadel Station, overrun by artificial intelligence we all know as Shodan, causing threats right from the beginning of the story, is a genre-defining game, as it was effectively the first immersive simulators. Later, IPs such as Deus Ex (which was created by Warren Spector, who also happened to work on System Shock!), BioShock, and Dishonored, were also in the genre.

System Shock’s remake, whose development was rebooted due to feature creep (resulting in an engine change from Unity to Unreal Engine 4), is supposedly launching this summer on PC on Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store. Aside from the PC/Mac/Linux release, the game is also supposed to launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the third quarter of the year (by the end of September). However, the console ports might follow a bit later than the computer versions.

Source: PCGamer