Games like System Shock

If System Shock left you wanting something tense and dark, you have options. Browse these games for your next favorite.

RetroSpace
A disco-punk space horror where you play a janitor on a station swallowed by a sentient black hole. Sneak through Aurora 5 or go in loud, grow mutations with side effects, and die as often as you like: the cloning bay is always open. An immersive sim with a retro look, weird creatures and time gone mad.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
89% of 596 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$15.99
Dead Space
Engineer Isaac Clarke boards the mining ship USG Ishimura for a routine repair job and finds the crew slaughtered, his partner Nicole missing, and creatures called Necromorphs in the vents. Armed with repurposed engineering tools, you carve your way through a derelict that gets under your skin and stays there.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
90% of 64,358 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 548$59.99
Sonar Shock
Submarine’s haunted! Hunt and be hunted in this horror dungeon crawler inspired by the decay of the Soviet Union (and immersive RPGs from the 90s).
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
80% of 224 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]
The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
87% of 687 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Shadow Complex Remastered
ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and fast-paced combat from award-winning original game, updated with graphical enhancements, dynamic melee take-downs, and new Master Challenges.
Tense, Dark, Cinematic
85% of 462 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Peripeteia
A cyberpunk immersive sim in alternate-history Poland. Marie, a cyborg mercenary, works the rot of a post-Soviet city where every tower, sewer and rooftop is reachable, and every problem has more than one answer. Shoot, sneak, hack, climb or talk your way through it.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
86% of 3,214 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 54$18.49
The Desolate Hope
A derelict space station, four dreaming supercomputers, a creeping virus, and a coffee pot with legs. The Desolate Hope blends platforming, 8-bit dungeon crawling and turn-based boss fights into one strange, heartfelt sci-fi story. You have fifteen days of power left. Time to work.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
92% of 1,854 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Prey
You wake on Talos I, a lavish space station overrun by aliens that hunt you. Search every corner, improvise with tools and strange powers, and uncover why this happened. A sci-fi thriller where every problem has more than one answer, and the station itself is the star.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
90% of 38,010 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 296$29.99
Void Bastards
A comic-book strategy shooter about leading prisoners out of the Sargasso Nebula. Plan raids on derelict ships, sneak or shoot your way to the salvage, and keep your expendable crew of misfits alive long enough to escape.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
86% of 3,895 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$29.99
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
Embody the ultimate cybernetic corporate agent. Master deadly gunplay, time manipulation, and supernatural abilities. Hack computers, people, even the individual bullets flying at you. Confront the future, and die trying.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
98% of 848 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$12.99
Selaco
A retro shooter with a story that matters: you are Dawn Collins, a security captain digging into Selaco's past when armed invaders storm the station. Destructible offices, enemies that flank and call out, and gunplay with real weight. Old-school soul, modern brains.
Tense, Atmospheric, Cinematic
91% of 5,030 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 34$24.99
Vertigo Remastered
Vertigo Remastered is a story-driven VR shooter where you are the alien trapped in the Planck Interdimensional Quantum Reactor, a huge underground facility ready for outsiders like you. With physics-driven guns, upgrades, and puzzles, you fight and climb toward the surface and home in a short campaign that players describe as getting better as it goes on.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
92% of 1,337 Steam reviews are positive$19.99

Cheaper than System Shock

System Shock: Enhanced Edition

Explore a haunted space station, scavenge what you need, hack its systems and fight through cyborgs and mutants to stay alive.

$9.99

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

Scavenge, upgrade and fight your way through a haunted starship where SHODAN is always listening, alone or with a friend in co-op.

$29.99

RetroSpace

A janitor fights through a station eaten by a black hole, where every death just means another clone and another way through.

$15.99

Sonar Shock

Submarine’s haunted! Hunt and be hunted in this horror dungeon crawler inspired by the decay of the Soviet Union (and immersive RPGs from the 90s).

$7.99

The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]

The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design…

$14.99

Shadow Complex Remastered

ChAIR’s fresh twist on classic side-scrolling design with modern gameplay is amplified in Shadow Complex Remastered. 10+ hrs of exploration and…

$14.99

Peripeteia

A cyborg mercenary works the grimy streets and rooftops of a decaying post-Soviet city, where shooting, sneaking, hacking or talking each get you…

$18.49

Prey

You wake on Talos I, a lavish space station overrun by aliens that hunt you.

$29.99

Selaco

Fight through a falling station as Dawn Collins, blasting apart offices and uncovering what Selaco is hiding.

$24.99

Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum

Embody the ultimate cybernetic corporate agent. Master deadly gunplay, time manipulation, and supernatural abilities.

$12.99

Dead Space (2008)

Engineer Isaac Clarke answers a repair call on the mining ship USG Ishimura and finds the crew slaughtered by Necromorphs, monsters that shrug off…

$19.99

Vertigo Remastered

Play the alien in a tense, fast VR shooter with physics-driven guns, puzzles and a story that climbs from a deep underground reactor toward home.

$19.99

Hidden gems like System Shock

Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum

Embody the ultimate cybernetic corporate agent. Master deadly gunplay, time manipulation, and supernatural abilities.

$12.99

RetroSpace

A janitor fights through a station eaten by a black hole, where every death just means another clone and another way through.

$15.99

Voltage High Society

First-person horror metroidvania about fisting your way through a prison island crawling with cybernetic monstrosities. Explore, evolve, escape.

$5.99

PARKSIDE: DECAYED SOUL MANIPULATION

PARKSIDE is an FPS-Immersive Sim that chronicles the future of biomechanical subterfuge and suffering.

$13.99

System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

Scavenge, upgrade and fight your way through a haunted starship where SHODAN is always listening, alone or with a friend in co-op.

$29.99

ROUTINE

A first-person sci-fi horror on an abandoned lunar base built around an 80s vision of the future.

$24.99

METAL EDEN

A fast sci-fi FPS where you play ASKA, a battle android on a suicide mission inside MOEBIUS, an orbital city turned deadly trap.

$19.99

Peripeteia

A cyborg mercenary works the grimy streets and rooftops of a decaying post-Soviet city, where shooting, sneaking, hacking or talking each get you…

$18.49

ZERO PROTOCOL

In this immersive sci-fi thriller, you will experience the atmosphere of classic 3D games as you solve puzzles, follow an intriguing non-linear…

$11.99

EMPTY SHELL

You sign up for a recovery operation in an abandoned facility on a Japanese island, then die and get replaced by the next volunteer.

$11.99

REPLACED

R.E.A.C.H. is an AI waking up in a human body, in an alternate 1980s America where organs are currency.

$19.99

Selaco

Fight through a falling station as Dawn Collins, blasting apart offices and uncovering what Selaco is hiding.

$24.99

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