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2023 PCPlayStationXboxNintendo Switch −70 % 39.99 € 11.99 € 3 days left 👍 91 % Very positive, 10,729 reviews on Steam

This remake of the cult classic leaves you alone on the Citadel space station, ruled by the deranged AI SHODAN. You explore sprawling interconnected levels, fight to survive, solve puzzles and piece together the story through audio logs in a bleak cyberpunk atmosphere.

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  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Challenging difficulty
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The closest matches for System Shock are Scars Above, Athanasia and Cronos: The New Dawn. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes System Shock special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Scars Above

93 %

2023 PCPlayStationXbox 29.99 € 👍 77 % Mostly positive, 2,762 reviews on Steam

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Challenging difficulty

A challenging sci-fi third-person action game where you play a scientist stranded on an alien planet, fighting monsters with elemental weapons and solving puzzles. Its checkpoint-based difficulty echoes soulslikes, while a mystery story drives you onward.

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Athanasia

Sci-fi setting

A survival horror shooter with immersive sim elements where you explore a mysterious facility and fend off predators from prehistory and the future using gear and wits. Its Metroidvania structure rewards exploration.

Cronos: The New Dawn

Dark, serious atmosphere

Bloober Team's survival horror casts you as a Traveler moving through a retro-futuristic, ruined Poland, from the 1980s to the apocalypse. Scarce ammo, monsters that merge unless you burn their corpses, and a layered time-travel plot keep the tension high.

Ground Zero

Challenging difficulty

A retro-style survival horror set in a ruined South Korea after a meteor strike, where mutated creatures roam. Scarce ammo, puzzles and gear upgrades deliver classic tension.

Otherskin

Sci-fi setting

A third-person Metroidvania shooter in which Alex explores an alien planet and absorbs organic abilities that reshape both combat and traversal. New powers steadily open up more of the world.

Tea for God

Sci-fi setting

A VR adventure that uses impossible, procedurally generated spaces so you can walk endlessly within your own room. Depending on settings it becomes a relaxed stroll, an arcade shooter or a roguelite shooter-explorer set in the distant future.

Moadra

Sci-fi setting

A grim sci-fi Metroidvania set on the alien planet Protea VI, where you fight dangerous creatures, grow stronger and uncover a terrible buried secret.

Vertigo 2

Strong, story-driven narrative

A story-driven VR shooter that blends Half-Life-style exploration with inventive weapons, puzzles and quirky sci-fi environments around a quantum reactor.

Solarix

Strong, story-driven narrative

A first-person sci-fi horror game in which an engineer fights to survive on an infected research station. You can sneak past threats or fight them while the protagonist's mind slowly unravels.

Left Alive

Challenging difficulty

A grim survival shooter with stealth elements set in a war-torn city, where you scavenge scarce resources and avoid enemies and mechs. Yoji Shinkawa's character design and the mech art give it a distinctive look.

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