Nightdive’s System Shock remake is nice. PC Gamer immsim man Joshua Wolens gave it an 80% review score, and we later selected it because the Best Remake of 2023 in our annual Recreation of the 12 months awards. Three years down the street, Nightdive is following it up with System Shock VR, a VR sport being developed by Flat2VR Studios.
That is, going by the Steam description, a straight VR translation of the unique sport moderately than a Half-Life: Alyx-style spinoff: You had been caught hacking into TriOp, Edward Diego supplied you a deal, you took it, and 6 months later that complete Citadel Station factor has kicked off.
(When you’ve got no thought what I am speaking about, go play System Shock. It is on sale for $15 on GOG and the Humble Store, in the event you insist on a Steam key.)
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That is tremendous, there isn’t any must mess with success, and the Shodan origin story is a basic. However I am a bit baffled about who that is truly for. VR adoption stays comparatively minuscule: The share of Steam customers with VR headsets, as reported by the Steam Hardware and Software Survey (which does not mirror the entire of the Steam consumer base, however nonetheless “is extremely useful to us as we make selections about what sorts of know-how investments to make and merchandise to supply”) stays nicely beneath 2%, and whereas the Meta Quest and PSVR2 headsets may also be supported, even with them within the combine it represents a tiny slice of the general gaming viewers.
Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow is an apt instance: It looked pretty good (for a VR sport, anyway), it is based mostly on a classic, beloved property, it was nicely obtained by gamers and critics alike—and it peaked at 233 concurrent gamers on Steam. Writer Vertigo Video games closed one of its studios in June, simply six months after Legacy of Shadow launched, saying “the VR market stays a difficult house.”
It is attainable that changing System Shock from a standard FPS to a VR sport is not a giant deal, and that the assets required are comparatively minimal, however I am not inclined to assume so. I do assume System Shock may very well be fairly good (for a VR sport, anyway), however whether or not that is sufficient to make it a hit is a distinct query totally.
System Shock VR is up for wishlisting now on Steam. A launch date hasn’t been introduced.