The long-in-development remake of System Shock was supposed to arrive sometime this month. But with no concrete date announced and we’re this deep in March already, we could’ve seen the news of a delay coming.
“We had hoped to bring the game to market by the end of March, but that turned out to be just beyond our reach; we are after all merely human (unlike Shodan!)” the post on Steam reads.
The remake, by developers Nightdive Studios, is a full remake of the 1994 first-person survival horror/FPS/immersive sim. The original game is from a time before many gaming standards- like WASD controls on keyboard- became a thing. So a modern remake of the classic, which introduces the world to the evil AI Shodan, is something needed. Plus, the new visuals and gameplay look good.
As for now, you can satiate the further wait by playing the demo of System Shock available on Steam right now.
System Shock, the 2023 remake, will now launch on May 30 on PC.