System Shock Fans, Here's Why Iron Abyss Might Be Your Next Obsession
I want to be upfront about something before I get into this one: System Shock and Iron Abyss are not the same kind of game. One’s a real-time immersive sim where you’re picking locks and hacking cameras, the other’s a turn-based mecha dungeon crawler. But the feeling both of them leave you with? That’s where it gets interesting. View this post on Instagram You’re Never Actually Looking at the World Directly This is the connection that hooked me. System Shock never lets you trust your own eyes completely — you’re piecing Citadel Station together through logs, cameras, SHODAN’s voice, a HUD that’s mediating everything. Iron Abyss does its own version of this literally: you watch the descent from the IRON ARK’s command deck, and everything renders as amber wireframe sensor data because the world outside is too sealed, too dark, too damaged to observe directly. Neither game gives you the comfort of just looking at things. You’re always looking at an interpretation. ...