Delays are no strangers to us at this stage but the possibility of a later release date was always niggling at the back of our minds. There was a fair amount of disappointment earlier in the year when Nightdive announced that the PC release date of System Shoch would be pushed back from March to May. We can’t wait to get it into your hands on May 30th! #systemshock #shodan /wo8DfMW26T- Nightdive Studios May 9, 2023 In other news, Techland will keep working on Dying Light 2 fixes, and PlatinumGames is open to being acquired if it can retain its creative freedom.On behalf of the #nightdivestudios team and all of our partners, THANK YOU to the fans for supporting us throughout the game’s development. So, it’s a matter of when, not if, fans will finally get to play the full version. However, a closed beta should be coming sometime before launch, and Nightdive seems confident that the game will be completed. Only 15 developers are working on the game, so, understandably, it’s taking a while to finish. We got Steam demos of the System Shock reboot in 20, which received positive attention. The rebooted version was looking toward a 2020 release date, but COVID-19 has caused delays in the game’s production. Then, development restarted with a new team that was told to focus on what was promised in the Kickstarter. However, due to rising costs and feature creep, that version was put on hold and later scrapped in 2018. Work on the game started in 2016 with a projected release date sometime in 2018.

While the full details aren’t known, it seems as if the System Shock remake has had a tumultuous development cycle. …we recognize that previous estimations of a release window have not been met, we hear the frustration, and quite honestly we do not wish to repeat this again. The last release window that Nightdive gave for the System Shock remake was “2022.” However, on the Kickstarter post that announced that the System Shock remake could be completed, Nightdive’s community moderator stated:

System shock remaster, 2016