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System Shock: Enhanced Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2015

Should you play it?

Re-discover what made System Shock the first of it's kind, a ground breaking immersive sim that would inspire a generation of games to come....

What works

  • Deep immersive sim gameplay
  • Complex level design and exploration
  • Engaging cyberpunk story and atmosphere
  • Challenging puzzles and combat
  • Modernized controls in enhanced edition

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve and clunky original interface
  • Confusing objectives without quest log
  • Some frustrating enemy respawns
  • Dated graphics and audio
  • Cyberspace segments considered unpleasant

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • System Shock

  • Eldritch

  • DOOM 64

  • Lovecraft's Untold Stories

  • System Shock® 2 (1999)

  • PowerSlave Exhumed

More expressive

Games that feels like System Shock: Enhanced Edition but with more self-expression and customization

  • Haydee 2

  • Haydee

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

  • Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

  • Rogue Legacy

  • Selaco

Choose your own criteria ->

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

System Shock: Enhanced Edition: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026