System Shock
Fair · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.3h
- Value
- $2.31/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was May 2026. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 29 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Prey ($29.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats System Shock: Enhanced Edition ($9.99, scores 57).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 17.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 20 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 765 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
81 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 15:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It is a testament to good game design that System Shock still holds up. This is a very faithful recreation of the original one, with a couple of modern conveniences added and some things changed, mostly the cyberspace stuff. Then again, I played the original years ago, so the memory might be a bit hazy. Generally it works, is fun to play and do. But, not all old design was good. The levels, being very faithful, are...
This review serves as a warning: some individuals may be looking for a game like this, but this game is not for everyone. I've never touched a System Shock game in my life. However, I'm aware that the first one came out in 1994, and this one is allegedly a faithful, near 1:1 remake of it. It's age shows in its game design. Firstly, this game needs a "Survival" tag. It has Action and Adventure, which is technically...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
System Shock scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/482400/system-shockReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30, price as of Oct 1.
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