Discover a non-linear story unfolding at your own pace Improve your skills and adapt to take on your foes Face off against the forces of a rogue AI gone mad Stop SHODAN and avert humanity’s destruction. You must explore and battle your way through the depths of a space station gone to hell. The psychotic AI has taken control of Citadel Station and turned the crew into an army of cyborgs and mutants She now plans to do the same to Earth. Witness the rebirth of one of the greatest and most influential games ever created. System Shock is the fully fledged remake of the ground breaking original from 1994, combining cult gameplay with all-new HD visuals, updated controls, an overhauled interface and all-new sounds & music it even has the original voice actor of SHODAN, one of gaming’s most iconic villains. I have not played many rogue-likes over the years, so I don't know how good this one is compared to the competition in the genre, but if you like challenging combat and if the thought of a slow spooky exploration of a space ship filled with monstruos creations sounds good to you, then this might be something you will enjoy.System Shock Demo is available on GOG.com.

But you get to keep your chip/stamcell resources and all the uppgrades you have bought and obtained. When you die you lose lever progress and items you have on you.

Basically, it's no less of an RPG then SS2. Chips are used to craft items (and schematics in your home deck), stamcells that you use to level up your attributes and dark matter (which is basically mana you use for certain skills) and there's also a special type of chip you use to uppgrade items in those crafting stations. The game has 3 different resources that you collect. These stations are also used for uppgrading said items. The layout of the decks and where you can find the stations is visible from the get go. You can also buy other items and each type of items have their own specific station.

Around the decks you can find crafting stations that you use to get both melee and range weapons. You have a small home deck where you start off from and then from there you proceed to the random generated shipdecks elsewhere. Your task is to get the ship operational and return home. You start off getting cloned as a copy of one of the killed crew members by some voice who I assume is the ship's AI. Just as the thread title says, the game is a rogue-like and there is indeed a good System Shock 2 vibe to the game. I've had fun with it and it's pretty tense and spooky at times. I played this for a few hours last night.

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