Nightdive's game had been announced and uner some stage of development long before any of the biggest horror hits right now had been concieved in an official capacity.

'People say that our game was delayed actually we paused and waited for the industry to catch up to us,' Kuperman jokes when asked about the current trend towards horror remakes. Check out the trailer for the System Shock remake here. Now that the game is out, I talked to CEO of Nightdive Stephen Kick, and director of business development at the studio, Larry Kuperman, who broke down their thoughts on the game's release, the state of horror, and AI in game development. Then there's the particular irony of System Shock coming back at a time where AI has been so contentious among game dev folks. Not only are we at a point in time where Capcom and Konami are pulling out the classics rebuilt from scratch with fresh coats of paint, but the indie horror development scene has never been stronger thanks to modern classics like Signalis championing the genre. What an exciting, and frankly hilarious, time for an AI-themed remake of a horror classic to come out. After all these hurdles, Shodan is back and – by all accounts – she's taking the horror genre by storm right now. It's been through a long a bumby ride, through Kickstarter, a total restart of development, and Covid-19 delays.

If you've been popping your head around the horror space for the last decade you've likely heard something about the System Shock remake.

System shock in game portraits