Faithful System Shock/Prey-style immersive sim
Mentioned in ~3 in 5 positive reviews
“Solid System Shock 2/Prey spiritual successor.”
Steam review · 14.8 h played ↗
RetroSpace
Worth buying? What 191 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 191 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 90%Very Positive · 90%The Wild Gentlemen2026Immersive Sim · Action · Adventure
$19.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A janky but loving indie System Shock/Prey-style immersive sim with great exploration and level design. Skip it if you want challenge, polish, or a strong story; play on a higher difficulty.
Great for
Immersive sim fans craving a System Shock/Prey-style exploration game at a low price
Main risk
Balance is far too easy and jank (ladders, saves, bugs, navigation) can sour the later game
Since the last analysis (Oct 9)
Notable change
- New complaintToo easy, with excess resources and overpowered mutamods (#3)
- New complaintConfusing navigation, poor map and heavy backtracking (#4)
- New praiseGreat exploration and level design (#2)
- Complaint goneClunky UI, inventory and missing QoL
- Complaint goneFar too easy, resources too plentiful
- Praise goneResponsive devs fixing issues
- Complaint movedBugs and softlocks: #4 → #2
- Complaint movedDeadly ladders and punishing fall/hazard damage: #2 → #5
- Praise movedGreat atmosphere, sound and voice acting: #4 → #3
- Praise movedMultiple approaches and player freedom: #2 → #4
- Praise movedAlternate timeline and creative setting: #3 → #6
What players love
Great exploration and level design
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The level design is magnificent. Lots of hidden shafts and crawlspaces, and every room can be reached in two or three different ways.”
Steam review · translated · 17.1 h played ↗
Great atmosphere, sound and voice acting
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Atmospheric, creepy, surprisingly well animated and voice acted and wonderfully immersive.”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗
Multiple approaches and player freedom
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“You get a lot of freedom in how to get through any given section.”
Steam review · 23.3 h played ↗
Great value for the price
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“I am shocked at just how much there is here at such a low price-point.”
Steam review · 9.7 h played ↗
Alternate timeline and creative setting
Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews
“Your spaceship warps and you end up in a completely different point in time.”
Steam review · 6.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
Weak, derivative or unfinished story
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“the plot reveals fall flat every single time and are barely even held on before the game gets bored”
Steam review · 15.7 h played ↗
Bugs and softlocks
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“it's currently riddled with bugs that break the game. I wasted several hours on two different playthroughs that both ended up impossible to progress.”
Steam review · 22.7 h played ↗
Too easy, with excess resources and overpowered mutamods
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“this game is piss easy past the 1/3 or even 1/4th mark”
Steam review · 11.5 h played ↗
Confusing navigation, poor map and heavy backtracking
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“So ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ much backtracking.”
Steam review · 8 h played ↗
Deadly ladders and punishing fall/hazard damage
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“one literally pulled me off a ledge to my death, and after several previous deaths to ladders”
Steam review · 1.4 h played ↗
Autosave overwrites manual saves
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“the developers have decided the save system should automatically overwrite itself so you don't have a fallback point once you realize your save is broken”
Steam review · 22.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support
Minimum
OSWindows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 570
Recommended
OSWindows 10/11 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core i5-11600K or AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon RX 6600
OSWindows 10 64-bit
ProcessorIntel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4 GB) or AMD Radeon RX 570
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