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Nightdive's kicking around the idea of an 'XCOM-like' System Shock that casts you as the Citadel's doomed resistance fighters against Shodan

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At least getting your entire squad killed would be in-keeping with canon.
The System Shock remake is finally here, eight years after it was first announced, and Nightdive is already thinking about what it wants to do next with the series. It might not be what we expect, either: In a chat with TechRadar, Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick mulled over a few potential projects the studio could attach the System Shock name to, including a straightforward remake of System Shock 2 or, intriguingly, an XCOM-like strategy game set on Citadel Station.
Kick said that Nightdive might prefer to let System Shock 2’s upcoming enhanced edition “breathe on its own for a bit” before the studio committed to a full remake of that game, meaning there might be a bit of room to experiment with the series. “We’ve talked about exploring the System Shock universe in different genres,” Kick told TRG, mentioning the idea of “an XCOM-like that takes place before the events of System Shock 1, where you’re the resistance on Citadel Station”.

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