System Shock: Enhanced Edition

System Shock: Enhanced Edition

Looking Glass Studios · October 22, 2015 · Immersive Sim, Cyberpunk, Classic, RPG, Sci-fi

Buy the System Shock: Enhanced Edition key for Steam from Eneba at $0.69 — the cheapest of 9 stores we compare.

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Where to buy System Shock: Enhanced Edition — official stores

Humble Store
Humble Store
Standard Edition · Steam
-80%
$1.99
$9.99
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GOG
GOG
Standard Edition · DRM-Free
-80%
$1.99
$9.99
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GreenManGaming
Standard Edition · Steam
$9.99
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Steam
Steam
Standard Edition · Steam
$9.99
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Cheapest System Shock: Enhanced Edition keys — keyshops

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Driffle INC
Standard Edition · Steam
$0.71
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YUPLAY
Standard Edition · Steam
-92%
$0.88
$11.07
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Eneba
Standard Edition · Steam
$0.69
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Kinguin
Standard Edition · Steam
$0.75
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Standard Edition · Steam
$2.01
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System Shock: Enhanced Edition price by region

System Shock: Enhanced Edition costs £0.44 in the United Kingdom, €0.55 in Europe (EUR), $0.69 in the United States, $0.69 in Georgia (USD), CA$1.25 in Canada, NZ$2.39 in New Zealand, zł2.82 in Poland, A$2.90 in Australia and R$3.99 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest System Shock: Enhanced Edition offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.44 −80% £1.39 £0.44 8
Europe (EUR) €0.55 −80% €1.79 €0.55 10
United Statesyour region $0.69 −80% $1.99 $0.69 9
Georgia (USD) $0.69 −80% $1.99 $0.69 9
Canada CA$1.25 −80% CA$2.69 CA$1.25 5
New Zealand NZ$2.39 −80% NZ$2.39 — 4
Poland zł2.82 −80% zł6.99 zł2.82 6
Australia A$2.90 −80% A$2.90 — 4
Brazil R$3.99 −80% R$3.99 R$3.99 5

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About System Shock: Enhanced Edition

✦ AI summary

Hack your way through a space station overrun by killer cyborgs and a rogue AI in this landmark immersive sim that pioneered the genre. This enhanced rebuild features modernized controls, 4K support, and quality-of-life improvements while preserving the original's strategic depth and atmospheric dread.


For the first time ever, System Shock has been rebuilt from the original source code as a FREE update to all owners of the game!

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....

Twenty one years after its first release, System Shock is back!

System Shock: Enhanced Edition features:
  • Higher resolution support up to 4K widescreen mode
  • Mouselook support
  • Rebindable keyboard/mouse/joystick commands
  • Adapted to Nightdive's KEX engine
  • Support for both Direct3D and OpenGL
  • Option to switch between hi-resolution Mac assets and the original DOS assets
  • Official support for fan missions and fan mods
  • New unified options menu that allows changing preferences before gameplay
  • Adjustable FOV (Field of View)
  • Smoother camera rotation and translation
  • Improved control scheme which allows faster and streamlined experience
  • Brand new achievements
  • Remappable keys with three profiles to choose from: original controls, custom controls, and lefthanded controls.
  • Many original game bugs fixed.

A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space.

You're a renowned hacker, the most notorious cyberspace thief in the corporate world. Caught during a risky break-in, you become indentured to Diego, a greedy Trioptium exec who bankrolls a rare cyberjack implant operation. After six months in a healing coma, you awaken to the twisted aftermath of a terrible disaster. Where are the surgeons? Why is the station in such disrepair? Slowly, the chilling realization that something is very wrong creeps over you.
Once a prime corporate research facility, Citadel now teems with mindless cyborgs, robots and terribly mutated beings, all programmed to serve SHODAN, a ruthless A.I. There's scarcely time to think before it unleashes the first terror...

Gameplay features:
  • Rocket through cyberspace to steal information, hack security and grapple with watchdog defense programs enslaved to a maniacal computer.
  • Survive battle after battle against armies of killer cyborgs and deadly robots as you collect hardware attachments, life-sustaining patches and deadly weapons to combat mindless mutants.
  • Test your intelligence by solving puzzles, rewiring access panels and outwitting SHODAN in its own cyber-realm.
  • Enjoy the vastly improved controls and graphics of the Enhanced Edition - or keep your experience as close to the original as possible with the Classic version.

Included Extras located in your Steam\SteamApps\common\SS1EE\Bonus Content folder!
  • Enhanced Edition Quick Start Guide
  • Original Manual (English, German, French)
  • Game Maps
  • I.C.E. BREAKER - Official Origin Hint Book
  • System Shock - Strategies & Secrets - Strategy Guide
  • OST - (Midi, MP3, FLAC)
  • TV Commercial

System Shock: Enhanced Edition — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

System Shock: Enhanced Edition in the rankings

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

System Shock: Enhanced Edition is praised by players for its impressive design that holds up remarkably well for a game from the early 1990s, featuring standout voice acting, music, and a satisfying Metroidvania-like progression system with a well-designed UI that enhances immersion.

Not recommended Sep 29, 2026
The game was super fun and awesome until I got to Cyberspace and had a petit mal epileptic seizure. I don't have epilepsy and I've never had any seizures before but all the lines and contrasts messed up my head. So if you're sensitive to lights, contrasts and colours, etc, I don't reccommend this game. I like the game and it made me very sad to not be able to play it.
5 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 12, 2026
Art and ragebait level design holds up so well imo. A point and click from hell if you're on the classic dosbox that's neatly packed in when you buy this. And kinda a 90s tech marvel that it had mouse look work the way it did. I ended up beating this on Nightdive's enhanced just for proper mouse look, and let me tell you I was THRIVING. Fantastic take on dungeon crawlers. This and the 2023 remake? My kinda jam
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 2, 2026
graphics doesnt render properly (objects are moving and leave a copy behind), even the text seems to blur.. not sure if that is intentional or not.. then you get into the game and once again the graphics wont render properly.. looks like its doing a 'stereo' version...frame offset thing happening.
Recommended Sep 23, 2026
Pretty good actually! The Grandfather of immersive sims.
Not recommended Sep 21, 2026
I understand why it was such a cult classic when it came out, but sadly it did not age well in my opinion.
Recommended Sep 21, 2026
i dont remember being bored.

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