| App ID | 238210 |
|---|---|
| App type | Game |
| Developer | Nightdive Studios, Irrational Games, Looking Glass Studios |
| Publisher | Nightdive Studios |
| Homepage | http://www.nightdivestudios.com/games/system-shock-2/?utm_source=steampowered.com&utm_medium=product&utm_campaign=website%20-%20system%20shock%202 |
| Release date | 2013-05-10 16:52 UTC |
| Original release | 1999-08-11 07:00 UTC |
| Release state | released |
| Store page | store.steampowered.com/app/238210 |
| Last store refresh | 2 hours ago |
| # | Executable | Arguments | OS | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | SS2.exe | -console | windows | Launch with Console |
| 1 | SS2.exe | -fm | windows | Launch Fan Mission Selector |
| 2 | System Shock 2.app | macos | Launch | |
| 3 | bin/cxsteamwrapper | linux | Launch |
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| DLC | AppID | Release | Price |
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| Branch | Build ID | Description | Updated | Password |
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| public | 5192345 | 2020-07-07 20:53 UTC | ||
| beta | 8394535 | 2022-03-18 03:22 UTC |
| Depot | Name | OS | Size | Download | Public manifest | Notes |
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| 228982 | windows | from app 228980 · shared install | ||||
| 229020 | windows | from app 228980 · shared install | ||||
| 238211 | windows · english | 516.93 MB | 387.18 MB | 1431447589926496658 | branches: beta | |
| 238212 | windows · german | 512.77 MB | 385.92 MB | 7897098874525375504 | branches: beta | |
| 238213 | macos · english | 1.42 GB | 668.14 MB | 5957785679606209660 | branches: beta | |
| 238214 | macos · german | 1.42 GB | 666.66 MB | 1144785626096173719 | branches: beta | |
| 238215 | linux · english | 746.45 MB | 458.70 MB | 9156936874839817018 | branches: beta | |
| 238216 | linux · german | 746.45 MB | 439.40 MB | 5251727845512703439 | branches: beta | |
| 238217 | 130.92 MB | 127.48 MB | 1524538845742354645 | branches: beta |
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| Build ID | Branch | Updated | First seen |
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| 8394535 | beta | 2022-03-18 03:22 UTC | 2 hours ago |
| 5192345 | public | 2020-07-07 20:53 UTC | 2 hours ago |
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You ever watch those art restoration YouTube channels? The guys who have some bristling kit of arcane brushes, tweezers, spudgers and sponges, and who put them to use painstakingly removing a fine layer of yellow—origin indeterminate—from the surface of masterpiece after masterpiece?.. Read more.
The worst thing I've ever read was this: "Just make sure you turn the music off before you start." It was a throwaway forum post around the launch of Nightdive's System Shock 2 remaster—advice given to a new player asking for tips before their first playthrough... Read more.
We live in a work where remakes and remasters are a dime a dozen. Diablo 2 Resurrected, Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2: nostalgia sells, and we keep on buying. Earlier this year the titans over at Nightdive dropped a 25th anniversary remaster of System Shock 2, which released to critical acclaim and currently sits at an 87% positive rating on Steam - not too shabby. In the wake of its launch, however, Atari has confirmed that the 1999 version of the game is being delisted on Steam, so if you want to grab a copy of the original, do it now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: System Sho
Nightdive Studios / Atari have announced that the classic System Shock 2 (1999) is getting delisted from stores on October 10th. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/system-shock-2-1999-is-getting-delisted-and-bundled-with-the-25th-anniversary-remaster/
I can't say I'm entirely surprised, but it's still a little disappointing: The original 1999 edition of System Shock 2 will be removed from sale on October 10... Read more.
System Shock 2 (1999) will be delisted from PC platforms on October 10, 2025. Existing owners of System Shock 2 (1999) will still be able to re-download and play it from their library, but new users will no longer be able to purchase System Shock 2 (1999) as a standalone product. At the time of delisting, System Shock 2 (1999) will be made available with the purchase of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster. Both new and existing owners of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster will be able to access System Shock 2 (1999) from their library at no additional cost. If you have any questio
System Shock 2 opens with playable character creation that also functions as a tutorial. Your trainee goggle-wearing badass walks off the street into a recruitment center and signs up to be a marine, or an engineer, or a psychic black ops agent. Then you choose where you'll be posted for each tour—decisions that alter your stats—and an instructor teaches you how to use your abilities... Read more.
One of System Shock 2's more unusual quirks is how it supports four player co-op. This was extremely rare in PC gaming in general at the tail end of the nineties, and it makes System Shock 2 unique among the classic immersive sims... Read more.
Tucked at the bottom of System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Edition's 1.2 patch notes is the whammy I'd been waiting for: "Added support for custom campaigns (fan missions)." Balance mods were good to go from launch, but now 'Shock 2's extensive back catalogue of modded missions and campaigns is fair game too... Read more.
In the latest episode of Nightdive Studios' Deep Dive podcast, System Shock 2 artist and industry veteran Nate Wells shared stories of his time working on the PC gaming classic—including how he sourced an unlikely art asset for the structures built by nasty worm aliens, The Many... Read more.
When you meet Shodan for the first time in System Shock 2, she gives you this slideshow recalling some of the events from the original game. Since I'm playing Nightdive's new remaster, and since Nightdive also did its own full remake of the first System Shock, I'd be unsurprised if the slideshow was edited so that the images from the 'first' game are replaced now with screenshots of the new, 2023 version. Some developers would seize this opportunity to tacitly establish their edition of the game at the center of the series' canon. New constantly supplants and erases old. The history of videoga
System Shock 2 is a PC gaming classic, but much like its spiritual successor Bioshock, its final act isn't as strong as the rest of the game. Its final level—The Body of the Many—swaps out the twisting spaceship corridors of the game's earlier levels for what is basically a giant intestine, with you fighting through a resource-draining gauntlet of enemies. Unless you're extremely careful, this can leave you ill-prepared for your showdown against Shodan... Read more.
There's a hubris to reviewing a unanimous classic decades after the fact—this mostly applies to guys on YouTube not named Mandalore. Yeah buddy, sure, you've got something to say about Earthbound that nobody cottoned on to before. You really couldn't have said it in less than five hours?.. Read more.
Bad news: after over six years in development, Nightdive's remaster of System Shock 2 has been hit by one last delay, for old times' sake. Good news: since you're reading about it on this website, it almost certainly doesn't matter to you... Read more.
Speaking to Nightdive founder Stephen Kick and VP of business development Larry Kuperman at this year's Game Developers Conference, I was curious about how it felt to be returning to System Shock 2 for the studio's upcoming remaster. After all, I had a loose understanding that Shock 2 is the game that kicked off Nightdive in the first place... Read more.
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