Games like System Shock
If you like System Shock (sci-fi, immersive sim and exploration), these 10 games are similar in what you do and how you play. They go from most to least similar.
BioShock™
- In common: story and long sessions
- Difference: easier
When you want a story-driven campaign with an unsettling atmosphere and fights you can approach in many different ways.
Dishonored
- In common: action and thinking
- Difference: more creative
When you want a one-to-two-hour mission where you decide how to get in and how to get out.
Alien: Isolation
- In common: a challenge and exploring
When you want to be properly scared and have the energy for sustained tension.
Dead Space (2008)
- In common: action and long sessions
- Difference: less exploring
When you fancy being scared aboard a spaceship over several evenings: Den of Geek puts it at around ten hours.
Half-Life 2
- In common: story and long sessions
- Difference: less exploring
When you want an action adventure with a story: each chapter changes pace and fits into an hour or two.
BioShock Infinite
- In common: story and long sessions
- Difference: less exploring
When you fancy a single-player campaign with a thought-provoking story that brings parallel universes into play.
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast™
- In common: action
- Difference: less exploring
When you fancy an old-school Star Wars campaign to spread over several evenings: there are 24 single-player missions.
Half-Life: Blue Shift
- In common: action
- Difference: less exploring
When you want a complete campaign that fits in an afternoon, with no long commitment.
Amnesia: The Bunker
- In common: exploring and a challenge
When you want to be properly scared in a short adventure: a first playthrough takes around five or six hours.
In Sound Mind
- In common: story and exploring
- Difference: easier
When you fancy psychological horror in chapters: each tape lasts a couple of hours and has its own boss.
How we pick them
We compare the tags the Steam community gives each game with our own classification: what you do (action, story, building…), the difficulty, how long sessions last and whether you play alone or with others. Nobody pays to appear.
About System Shock
A remake of the 1994 classic: you explore Citadel Station, taken over by the AI SHODAN, with little guidance and following clues from audio logs; you fight mutants and cyborgs, manage a limited inventory and jack into cyberspace.
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