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2015PCSteam Deck playable91 % positive9.99 €

The 1994 classic sends you as a hacker through a space station overrun by the rogue AI SHODAN. First-person combat, puzzles and audio logs create a dark, tense atmosphere, and the Enhanced Edition adds modern controls and resolution.

  • Dread and tension
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover
  • Dark, serious atmosphere

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In short: Games like System Shock: Enhanced Edition

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes System Shock: Enhanced Edition special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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System Shock

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Brings what grabs you about System Shock: Enhanced Edition: dread and tension, a sci-fi setting as well as lots to discover.

A groundbreaking sci-fi first-person shooter with RPG elements: alone on Citadel Station, you explore bleak corridors, piece together the story through audio logs and face the murderous AI SHODAN. Its dense atmosphere and environmental storytelling shaped later immersive sims.

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System Shock

Dread and tension

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.

System Shock 2

Dread and tension

A landmark immersive sim horror RPG set aboard an infested starship, where scarce resources, flexible skill builds and the unforgettable AI SHODAN create relentless dread.

Half-Life

Shooting and gunplay

The landmark shooter sends physicist Gordon Freeman through the alien- and soldier-infested Black Mesa facility, telling its story seamlessly without cutscenes while mixing tense firefights with environmental and physics puzzles.

BloodNet

Dark, serious atmosphere

You take a routine freelance job that drags you into a nocturnal fraternity of predators in a brutal high-tech city. It blends a bleak cyberpunk thriller with vampire horror and adventure puzzles.

Alien Trilogy

Shooting and gunplay

A grim 1996 first-person shooter that recreates the Alien films across 30 levels, as you blast through corridors full of facehuggers, xenomorphs and Queens with a range of weapons. The claustrophobic atmosphere and motion tracker build constant tension.

Scars Above

Dark, serious atmosphere

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.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Dark, serious atmosphere

An atmospheric survival shooter set in the Zone around Pripyat, where you dodge anomalies, hunt artifacts and fight mutants and rival stalker factions. Its open hubs, consequential side quests and oppressive mood make it a cult classic.

Into the Radius

Shooting and gunplay

An unforgiving VR survival shooter set in an anomaly-ridden exclusion zone. You scavenge, manage scarce inventory and physically handle realistic firearms, making every encounter tense.

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