- System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition is the absolute gold standard of remasters - 25 December 2025
You ever watch those art restoration YouTube channels? The guys who have some bristling kit of arcane brushes, tweezers, spudgers and sponges, and who put them to use painstakingly removing a fine layer of yellow —origin indeterminate—from the surface of masterpiece after masterpiece?.. Read more.
- 26 years later, System Shock 2's music is a crucial part of its level design, and turning it off is a tragedy - 19 October 2025
The worst thing I've ever read was this: "Just make sure you turn the music off before you start." It was a throwaway forum post around the launch of Nightdive's System Shock 2 remaster —advice given to a new player asking for tips before their first playthrough... Read more.
- The original System Shock 2 is being delisted, so if you want it, act fast - 8 October 2025
We live in a work where remakes and remasters are a dime a dozen. Diablo 2 Resurrected, Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2: nostalgia sells, and we keep on buying. Earlier this year the titans over at Nightdive dropped a 25th anniversary remaster of System Shock 2 , which released to critical acclaim and currently sits at an 87% positive rating on Steam - not too shabby. In the wake of its launch, however, Atari has confirmed that the 1999 version of the game is being delisted on Steam, so if you want to grab a copy of the original, do it now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: System Shock 2 Remastered makes modern triple-A games look bad System Shock 2 remaster has a new name, and soon it'll have a launch date too One of the greatest FPS games in all of PC history is now just $2
- System Shock 2 (1999) is getting delisted and bundled with the 25th Anniversary Remaster - 8 October 2025
Nightdive Studios / Atari have announced that the classic System Shock 2 (1999) is getting delisted from stores on October 10th. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/system-shock-2-1999-is-getting-delisted-and-bundled-with-the-25th-anniversary-remaster/
- The original System Shock 2 is being removed from sale later this week - 7 October 2025
I can't say I'm entirely surprised, but it's still a little disappointing: The original 1999 edition of System Shock 2 will be removed from sale on October 10... Read more.
- System Shock 2 (1999) Delisting Notice - 7 October 2025
System Shock 2 (1999) will be delisted from PC platforms on October 10, 2025. Existing owners of System Shock 2 (1999) will still be able to re-download and play it from their library, but new users will no longer be able to purchase System Shock 2 (1999) as a standalone product. At the time of delisting, System Shock 2 (1999) will be made available with the purchase of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster. Both new and existing owners of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster will be able to access System Shock 2 (1999) from their library at no additional cost. If you have any questions, please reach out to our support team ([email protected]).
- Adding controller support to the System Shock 2 remaster meant re-recording decades-old voice acting - 8 September 2025
System Shock 2 opens with playable character creation that also functions as a tutorial. Your trainee goggle-wearing badass walks off the street into a recruitment center and signs up to be a marine, or an engineer, or a psychic black ops agent. Then you choose where you'll be posted for each tour—decisions that alter your stats—and an instructor teaches you how to use your abilities... Read more.
- Nightdive Studios says System Shock 2's multiplayer was 'so hard to get working' for modern platforms, but you should still 'probably play it in singleplayer first to get the true experience' - 7 September 2025
One of System Shock 2 's more unusual quirks is how it supports four player co-op. This was extremely rare in PC gaming in general at the tail end of the nineties, and it makes System Shock 2 unique among the classic immersive sims... Read more.
- Nightdive's System Shock 2 remaster now supports 26 years of mods and fan missions - 21 August 2025
Tucked at the bottom of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition's 1.2 patch notes is the whammy I'd been waiting for: "Added support for custom campaigns (fan missions)." Balance mods were good to go from launch, but now 'Shock 2's extensive back catalogue of modded missions and campaigns is fair game too... Read more.
- System Shock 2's alien 'sphincter doors' were made with photos from a dev's colonoscopy - 4 August 2025
In the latest episode of Nightdive Studios' Deep Dive podcast , System Shock 2 artist and industry veteran Nate Wells shared stories of his time working on the PC gaming classic—including how he sourced an unlikely art asset for the structures built by nasty worm aliens, The Many... Read more.
- System Shock 2 Remastered makes modern triple-A games look bad - 15 July 2025
When you meet Shodan for the first time in System Shock 2 , she gives you this slideshow recalling some of the events from the original game. Since I'm playing Nightdive's new remaster, and since Nightdive also did its own full remake of the first System Shock, I'd be unsurprised if the slideshow was edited so that the images from the 'first' game are replaced now with screenshots of the new, 2023 version. Some developers would seize this opportunity to tacitly establish their edition of the game at the center of the series' canon. New constantly supplants and erases old. The history of videogames is an oxymoron. This kind of thing - Konami using voice clips from The Twin Snakes rather than Metal Gear Solid for the Shadow Moses flashback scenes in MGS 4; Rockstar pulling the original GTA trilogy from sale when the Definitive Edition came out - happens all the time. Read the rest of the…
- Ken Levine wanted System Shock 2's final level to be set in outer space, but the idea was shot down by its senior designers: 'They're like dude, we have 14 months to make this game' - 12 July 2025
System Shock 2 is a PC gaming classic, but much like its spiritual successor Bioshock, its final act isn't as strong as the rest of the game. Its final level—The Body of the Many—swaps out the twisting spaceship corridors of the game's earlier levels for what is basically a giant intestine, with you fighting through a resource-draining gauntlet of enemies. Unless you're extremely careful, this can leave you ill-prepared for your showdown against Shodan... Read more.
- System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remastered review - 26 June 2025
There's a hubris to reviewing a unanimous classic decades after the fact—this mostly applies to guys on YouTube not named Mandalore . Yeah buddy, sure, you've got something to say about Earthbound that nobody cottoned on to before. You really couldn't have said it in less than five hours?.. Read more.
- System Shock 2's remaster is delayed for everyone but you and me - 24 June 2025
Bad news: after over six years in development, Nightdive's remaster of System Shock 2 has been hit by one last delay, for old times' sake. Good news: since you're reading about it on this website, it almost certainly doesn't matter to you... Read more.
- The rights to one of the greatest PC games of all time languished in the vault of a Midwestern insurance firm until a frustrated player bugged them about a re-release, 'But they asked me if I wanted to do System Shock 3' - 6 April 2025
Speaking to Nightdive founder Stephen Kick and VP of business development Larry Kuperman at this year's Game Developers Conference, I was curious about how it felt to be returning to System Shock 2 for the studio's upcoming remaster . After all, I had a loose understanding that Shock 2 is the game that kicked off Nightdive in the first place... Read more.
- Nightdive's remaster of System Shock 2, the peak of immersive sims, finally has a release date - 20 March 2025
Here's my confession: I think I prefer System Shock 2 to Deus Ex. Not that I don't love JC Denton like a son, mind you, it's just that SS2's creepy hallways and pitch-perfect antagonists have taken root in my heart forever... Read more.
- System Shock 2 remaster has a new name, and soon it'll have a launch date too - 15 February 2025
While Half-Life often steals the show and sits fondly in more players' memories, let's not forget that fellow sci-fi FPS series System Shock was just as brilliant and revolutionary. The original game recently got a full remake decades on from when it first opened the FPS genre up to levels of freedom previously unseen. System Shock 2 was equally excellent, and a remaster (rather than a full remake) has been in the works for a while now. Well, that wait may soon be coming to an end. While I sadly don't have a release date to share with you right now, what I can say is that developer Nightdive will be revealing it next month during GDC. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: One of the greatest FPS games in all of PC history is now just $2 System Shock 2 is getting an Enhanced Edition The most scared we've been while playing a game
- System Shock 2 remaster has a new name, and soon it'll have a launch date too - 15 February 2025
While Half-Life often steals the show and sits fondly in more players' memories, let's not forget that fellow sci-fi FPS series System Shock was just as brilliant and revolutionary. The original game recently got a full remake decades on from when it first opened the FPS genre up to levels of freedom previously unseen. System Shock 2 was equally excellent, and a remaster (rather than a full remake) has been in the works for a while now. Well, that wait may soon be coming to an end. While I sadly don't have a release date to share with you right now, what I can say is that developer Nightdive will be revealing it next month during GDC. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: One of the greatest FPS games in all of PC history is now just $2 System Shock 2 is getting an Enhanced Edition The most scared we've been while playing a game
- Nightdive's spent 6 years on its update of System Shock 2, so it's now the '25th Anniversary Remaster' and will finally announce its release date on March 20 - 14 February 2025
Being, as I am, a fashionable man with his finger on the pulse, interested in only the latest and greatest that the videogame world has to offer, the game I'm probably most excited about this year is System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition. That's Nightdive's remaster (not remake, let's be clear) of the original 1999 classic, one of my favourite games of all time. If Nightdive can do for SS2 what it did for System Shock 1 in its enhanced edition of that, I'll be very happy... Read more.
- One of the greatest FPS games in all of PC history is now just $2 - 4 March 2024
What are the most influential PC games in history? Civilization has to be up there. Doom. Half-Life . I'd definitely throw Baldur's Gate into the hat these days, likewise Fallout and The Elder Scrolls. And you know, it's hard to overstate the significance of The Sims. World of Warcraft definitely deserves a mention, too. But if I'm thinking of a specific type of game - an FPS and immersive sim where you discover the entire story through exploration and interaction, and tweak the way you play based on different stats and abilities - one game stands above all. Inspired by Thief The Dark Project, and launching close to Deus Ex, without this epochal PC shooter, we'd have no BioShock, and maybe no Dishonored. And now it's all yours for $2. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: System Shock 2 is getting an Enhanced Edition The most scared we've been while playing a game System Shock 3…
