Nightdive Studios has given a new release date window for their long-delayed sci-fi remake project System Shock Remake.
The latest update came from the studio via the game’s Kickstarter, with the studio acknowledging that it’s far from the first release window seen as how the Kickstarter originally concluded all the way back in 2016.
The team explained the new release date in their latest Kickstarter post. “the scope and scale of the project has evolved dramatically and with Prime Matter joining the project it’s enabled us to focus on quality-of-life improvements, bug fixing, and localization support.”
It seems however, the end is in sight with Nightdive claiming that these are “the last major steps towards releasing a game we’re all incredibly proud of.”
The extra time has allowed them to add a lot of detail to areas like the Citadel, and even add some new enemies for the player to face as an extra challenge on top of the original.
The team’s also shown off a couple of videos of the game in action, including the much-touted dismemberment system.
System Shock is, of course, a hallowed name in the world of shooters – being the game that would go on to spawn other classics like Bioshock.
The remake was targeting a 2020 release window back in 2018, and got a ‘Final Demo’ in 2021. It was then slipped into 2022 as it got a new publisher in Prime Matter, and now we’re at the new date of March 2023.
Whether this date will stick is still to be seen, of course, but it sounds like the team are hopeful this will be the one.
