
They found themselves in dire straits and Otherside parted ways with them in February 2019, pledging to continue the development. The game was initially to be published by Starbreeze Studios who helped finance the project. Terri Brosius, SHODAN's original voice actress would also return.

Among them are Looking Glass' founder and ex-creative director Paul Neurath, and ex-Irrational Games concept artists Robb Waters and Nate Wells. While Nightdive Studios still owns the rights to the System Shock franchise, they licensed the rights to develop a sequel to OtherSide Entertainment, a studio formed of ex- Looking Glass' and Irrational Games' developers who worked on one or both games of the System Shock series.
