System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Worth it · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
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- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, Any 100% OpenGL capable card (Card or Onboard), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Shooter game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in February 2019. It has been discounted 69 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today's $1.99 at 80 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition ($0.90, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Deus Ex: Invisible War ($6.99, scores 5).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. 2 of the 404 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 297 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
20% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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System Shock: Enhanced Edition scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/410710/system-shock-enhanced-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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