We’ll see if this can actually happen “in 18-24 months” as Kuperman said or it will be yet another failure. The promise now is to use the funds coming from other titles in the Night Dive portfolio to fuel a new remaster, said to be closer to the original vision of the game and the remaster as it was pitched on Kickstarter. The more that we worked on the game, the more that we wanted to do, and the further we got from the original concepts that made System Shock so great.” As the budget grew, we began a long series of conversations with potential publishing partners. This news comes by way of a new Kickstarter update from developer Nightdive Studios, which states the team has picked 'a few last things to share before our quickly approaching launch window of March 2023.' as reported by Video Games Chronicle.

We … strayed from the core concepts of the original title. The long-in-development remake of System Shock will finally be released this March. We moved from a Remaster to a completely new game. Things that were confirmed in the note we mentioned above by CEO Kick. This new System Shock was pitched to several publishers, which showed reluctance to offer more funds and publishing because its old-fashioned mechanics were not up to today’s standards in terms of monetization and profitability.

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