The kickstarter-funded system shock remake is in danger

It was in mid-2016 when the NightDive studio set out to develop the remake of System Shock, one of the most famous PC shooters of its time and forerunner of Bioshock. At the time, the studio was asking for $ 900, 000 and ended up receiving $ 1.3 million thanks to donations. We are in the middle of 2018, and we have bad news.

Developer Nightdive would have spent all the money for the System Shock remake

In a statement directly to backers, Stephen Kick of NightDive offered a series of explanations about what is happening with the game.

Basically NightDive comments that the game grew so much that they have run out of money (although it does not expressly say so). It talks about the ambition of the game and how little by little they moved away from the original vision. They also comment that the step towards Unreal Engine 4 has also taken its toll, since it became extra work for the studio, although they do not regret the result that this engine offered and the graphic improvements implemented.

According to the Polygon site, the remake of System Shock was sunk by excessive ambition and divergence of the source material. NightDive is said to have depleted Kickstarter funds, and attempts to obtain funds from other sources failed. It appears that most investors considered the project to be too large and difficult to manage to be profitable.

It should be clarified that the game is not canceled, but that the project is currently stopped until the next steps are re-evaluated. The leader of the project, Stephen Kick , gave the guarantee that they would return with the game, surely with many changes. The game would take two 2 more years to be completed.

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