Games like System Shock: Enhanced Edition
If System Shock: Enhanced Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are System Shock® 2 (1999), System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster and SiN Gold — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, dark and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Originally released by Looking Glass Studios in 1993 and reissued in 2015 as the Enhanced Edition, System Shock is a challenging retro sci-fi immersive sim that tasks players with escaping a space station controlled by the rogue AI SHODAN. Players explore non-linearly, solving audio-log puzzles and navigating cyberspace segments while managing limited resources. Hardware upgrades provide meaningful progression, and physics-based throwing enables flexible combat approaches. Reviewers highlight how SHODAN's taunts elevate the antagonist, while the absence of quest markers encourages deep environmental engagement. Set in a dark cyberpunk atmosphere, the solo-only experience offers roughly medium length gameplay. Currently priced at $9.99, it holds an 85 Metacritic score and 91% positive reception across over 1,200 Steam reviews, running Playable on Steam Deck.
About System Shock: Enhanced Edition: 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....
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System Shock® 2 (1999)
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Top pick for System Shock: Enhanced Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Second-strongest match for System Shock: Enhanced Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
SiN Gold
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Third-strongest match for System Shock: Enhanced Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
SiN: Gold has returned! Free update for original owners!
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Ranked #4 for System Shock: Enhanced Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
System Shock
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Ranked #5 for System Shock: Enhanced Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
TRON 2.0
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Ranked #6 for System Shock: Enhanced Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Over 35 levels of challenging gameplay -- Race at the speed of light, fight off computer Viruses and engage in violent digital combat.
Strife: Veteran Edition
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Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Ranked #7 for System Shock: Enhanced Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Hailed as the original FPS-RPG game that spawned countless imitators, Strife: Veteran Edition is a love letter to the classic from 1996.
Blood West
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Ranked #8 for System Shock: Enhanced Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Weird west legends meet eldritch horror in BLOOD WEST, an immersive stealth FPS. Become the Undead Gunslinger, doomed to roam the barren lands until he manages to purge their curse, freeing his soul. 3 varied scenarios, perk-based character progression, and 20+ hours of gameplay await you!
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Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Reviewers of System Shock: Enhanced Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly - killing thousands; drugs, disease and pollution kill even more. The world's economies are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor grows ever wider.
System Shock® 2 (1999)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Reviewers of System Shock: Enhanced Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
Thief
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Reviewers of System Shock: Enhanced Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Garrett, the Master Thief, steps out of the shadows into the City. In this treacherous place, where the Baron’s Watch spreads a rising tide of fear and oppression, his skills are the only things he can trust. Even the most cautious citizens and their best-guarded possessions are not safe from his reach.
Transmissions: Element 120
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Reviewers of System Shock: Enhanced Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
TE120 is a short single player experience set in the Half-Life Universe featuring a gravity defying weapon that allows you to jump buildings and sustain large falls. The story takes place at a mysterious date & location. Where are you? Why have you been sent?
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Reviewers of System Shock: Enhanced Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
Underworld
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Reviewers of System Shock: Enhanced Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Underworld is a classic old-school ARPG in a demonic environment. You must fight demonic skeletons, upgrade your inventory runes, and learn new abilities.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below System Shock: Enhanced Edition at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
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Priced ~50% under System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
GRIS
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Priced ~63% under System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~80% under System Shock: Enhanced Edition on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and RPG with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Other recommendable Steam games by Looking Glass Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
System Shock® 2 (1999)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Another title from Looking Glass Studios, the studio behind System Shock: Enhanced Edition. Shares Action and RPG with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
"Remember, it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. If you value that meat... you will do as I tell you." The cult classic sci-fi horror FPS-RPG has returned.
Thief Gold
WHY THIS
Another title from Looking Glass Studios, the studio behind System Shock: Enhanced Edition. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Stalk your prey on the quest for stolen goods with your blackjack, sword, and an assortment of unique arrows. Steal for money and uncover the hidden agendas of your allies and enemies as you play through an unravelling story of deception and revenge.
Thief II: The Metal Age
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Another title from Looking Glass Studios, the studio behind System Shock: Enhanced Edition. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
The ultimate thief is back! Tread softly as you make your way through 15 new complex, non-linear levels full of loot to steal and guards to outsmart. Improved enemy AI, new gadgets and a riveting story will draw you into the world of Thief II: The Metal Age, a place of powerful new technologies, fanatical religions and corruption.
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Another title from Looking Glass Studios, the studio behind System Shock: Enhanced Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
System Shock® 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster is a genre defining experience that established innovative game-play mechanics that are a staple of the FPS and RPG genre today. Survive the wretched corridors of the Von Braun. Your training has prepared you for this.
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
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Shares an atmospheric mood with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Another title from Looking Glass Studios, the studio behind System Shock: Enhanced Edition. Shares Action with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
Lead an elite fighting team battling for freedom from the sinister forces of the Earth Hegemony. Engage in combat on the bloody battlefields of four unique worlds. Encased in your Powered Battle Armour (PBA) you are an unstoppable fighting force.
Thief: The Dark Project Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Looking Glass Studios, the studio behind System Shock: Enhanced Edition. Shares Action and Adventure with System Shock: Enhanced Edition.
The shadows are your ally. Return to the city as Garrett, master thief, in this remastered classic by Nightdive Studios. Pickpocket, prowl, and outsmart in a world where trust is a luxury and every stolen secret comes at a price.
Frequently asked about System Shock: Enhanced Edition
- Does System Shock: Enhanced Edition run on Steam Deck?
- System Shock: Enhanced Edition is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does System Shock: Enhanced Edition cost?
- System Shock: Enhanced Edition is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to System Shock: Enhanced Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside System Shock: Enhanced Edition are System Shock® 2 (1999), System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster, SiN Gold.
- Who developed System Shock: Enhanced Edition?
- System Shock: Enhanced Edition was developed by Looking Glass Studios, Nightdive Studios and published by Nightdive Studios, Atari.
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