Nightdive Studios‘ System Shock remake, which is in its final week of funding on Kickstarter (but is already over its funding goal), is coming to PlayStation 4 in addition to PC in early 2018, the developer announced.
“When we launched this Kickstarter, supporting PS4 was a possibility, but we hadn’t started talking to Sony just yet about it,” project director Jason Fader said in a blog post. “We were all focused on wrapping the demo up and prepping the Kickstarter.”
Fader continued, “After we saw the overwhelming demand for PS4, we reshuffled our priorities and focused on talking to Sony about making that happen. After a few weeks and lotttts of emails, we are officially on track for bringing System Shock to the PS4! No stretch goal for it. We’re adding it in as a thank you to our backers that put their faith in us.”
While an Xbox One version has not been confirmed, Fader notes that “we already had strong contacts at Microsoft from prior projects, so supporting Xbox One was less of an unknown.”
Here’s an overview of the game, via Fader on the PlayStation Blog:
Imagine you’re a hacker in the future. You’re trapped on a space station with a megalomaniacal AI bent on mankind’s destruction named SHODAN. You need to survive and defeat her, or mankind will be lost. No pressure, right? Oh, and you’ll be facing her monstrous constructs and warped mutations of humans along the way. Your tools are your wits, weapons you find, computer systems to hack, and corners you can hide in. Good luck!
Watch a pre-alpha gameplay trailer below.