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Styx: Master of Shadows

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Styx: Master of Shadows
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Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age. Deep inside the vertiginous and multi-layered forsaken Tower of Akenash, where Humans and Elve...
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2014, Cyanide Studio, ...
System requirements
Windows 7/8/10, AMD/Intel dual-core 2.4 GHz, 3072 MB RAM, 1024 MB 100% DirectX 9 AND Shaders 4.0 com...
Time to beat
17 hMain
22.5 h Main + Sides
42 h Completionist
23 h All Styles
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Description
Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.

Deep inside the vertiginous and multi-layered forsaken Tower of Akenash, where Humans and Elves protect the World-Tree, source of the Amber – a powerful and magical golden sap – is hidden Styx’ chance to understand his true origin... and to make a fortune at the same time.

Prowl through the huge, miles-high Tower of Akenash, completing various missions (assassination, information recovery, etc.) and avoiding detection. Progress in the shadows, assassinate your targets in close combat, or orchestrate «accidents». RPG mechanics let you unlock new powerful skills, impressive special moves, and an optimized equipment. Amber will grant you spectacular powers such as invisibility, «amber vision», and the ability to clone yourself. Explore the levels to discover every bit of information about your past, and steal prized treasures to acquire equipment upgrades. Embrace the shadows!

Mission areas featuring truly organic player path-finding A strong focus on hardcore stealth and infiltration: progress through the shadows with a sense of verticality, and explore to find hidden treasures Upgrade your skills along six unique skill-trees to improve your stealth, assassination, and technique. Distract, solve, smother and prowl with your clone An intricate story full of twists and revelations

©2020 Developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Nacon. All rights reserved.

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Time to beat
17 hMain
22.5 h Main + Sides
42 h Completionist
23 h All Styles
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Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
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6.2 GB

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Posted on: October 3, 2025

Fedepite

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Games: 352 Reviews: 5

Die to Learn

You have to die to learn how to play. It's a good game, but you must be patience to play low, slowly, replay untill do it right... But it's a good well done game


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Posted on: October 9, 2025

Hopik79

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Games: 41 Reviews: 1

Great stealth action

Little bit of old school, but great stealth action game ;-) I like to sneak and seek for every item and enemy in the game :-)


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Posted on: October 12, 2025

adrianchau

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Games: 926 Reviews: 2

Styx Master of Darkness

Reminiscent of Thief and comparable to Dishonored's stealth mechanics. Excellent climbing controls Cannot initiate melee is a bummer but fully encourages stealth/predator like gameplay which is probably the whole point of such a game isn't it?


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Posted on: October 12, 2025

Very flawed gem (really 2.5 stars)

I just finished the game after a some nearly 50 hours (I like to take my time), and it was really a mixed bag. I like the premise of the game and the core stealth experience. However the game suffers from repetition, questionable balancing and bugs that really hurts the experience. The second half of the game you go through the same levels again but backwards. That makes it less interesting than the first half to me. What saved the game for me was the ablity to freely save the game, which significantly reduced the time spent redoing stuff after fails. I understand that in a stealth game there will be trial and error involved, but many times I felt it wasn't my fault. The enemies will get stuck on the level geometry, on other enemies and sometimes their routine just breaks and they stand forever stuck in place (I'm not talking about enemies that are meant to stand in place). Also, some enemies are really overpowered and it's a pain to get around, especially later on when the levels are crowded with enemies. The plataforming is serviceable, but often fails. I died far more from falling after tring to jump around then from enemies killing me. The combat is terrible, but you can beat the game without doing it so it's ok. Also multiple ACHIEVEMENTS ARE STILL BUGGED over ten years after the game came out.


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Posted on: October 16, 2025

Jereca

Games: 0 Reviews: 1

good game

nice visuals, inversion details are good, the storytelling is also good, love the voice acting.


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