Posted on: November 11, 2024
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Styx: Shards of Darkness
Description
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure!
Hired for a critical mission, explore and master huge open environments as Styx. Assassinate or sneak past enemies – Humans, Elves and Dwarves – but also much more fearsome, colossal creatures.
Experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in your goblin assassin's arsenal. Spend experience points in assassination, infiltration, magic, to learn new skills and improve abilities. Explore, recover valuable artifacts and ingredients to craft deadly traps and useful items, and create clones of yourself to deceive your enemies!
Enhance your gaming experience in Styx: Shards of Darkness! The Akenash Set DLC gives you access to the iconic Akenash Outfit and the Akenash Dagger.
The Akenash Outfit
Here's the one-and-only, classic outfit from Styx's first adventure! Whenever Styx summons a clone, its duration before disappearing is increased.
The Dagger of Akenash
Styx's first dagger. Old yet sturdy, this rusty blade was dragged through miles of infested marshes. This caused it to be covered in all manner of deadly acid. Anyone killed with the Dagger of Akenash will dissolve instantly.
Hired for a critical mission, explore and master huge open environments as Styx. Assassinate or sneak past enemies – Humans, Elves and Dwarves – but also much more fearsome, colossal creatures.
Experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in your goblin assassin's arsenal. Spend experience points in assassination, infiltration, magic, to learn new skills and improve abilities. Explore, recover valuable artifacts and ingredients to craft deadly traps and useful items, and create clones of yourself to deceive your enemies!
This version on GOG does not include Co-op features. As a token of apology, we offer the DLC 'Akenash set' as a part of every purchase.
Enhance your gaming experience in Styx: Shards of Darkness! The Akenash Set DLC gives you access to the iconic Akenash Outfit and the Akenash Dagger.
The Akenash Outfit
Here's the one-and-only, classic outfit from Styx's first adventure! Whenever Styx summons a clone, its duration before disappearing is increased.
The Dagger of Akenash
Styx's first dagger. Old yet sturdy, this rusty blade was dragged through miles of infested marshes. This caused it to be covered in all manner of deadly acid. Anyone killed with the Dagger of Akenash will dissolve instantly.
©2017 Cyanide Studio and Focus Home Interactive. Styx: Shards of Darkness is developed by Cyanide Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive. Styx: Shards of Darkness and its logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cyanide Studio. Unreal, Unreal Engine, the circle-U logo and the Powered by Unreal Engine logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States and elsewhere. All other trademarks or registered trademarks belong to their respective owners. All Rights Reserved.
Popular achievements
Slowly but surely?
Finish the introduction
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Morpheus' Blade
Kill an enemy in his sleep
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31.67%
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12 hMain
17 h Main + Sides
28.5 h Completionist
16.5 h All Styles
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PC Gamer
79/100
A mean-spirited character leads a big-hearted game; you’re unlikely to dwell on its lore but its features combine well to create a satisfying stealth experience.
Read full review »IGN
7.8/10
Styx: Shards of Darkness greatly resembles the earlier Styx: Master of Shadows from 2014, but Cyanide improved the gameplay this time around with the inclusion of craftable weapons, the lack of a lock-on in combat, and expanded abilities. It presents an interesting world to explore but wastes its potential by recycling environments from early missions late in the game. Co-op mode is fun, too, but only selectively as some stealth-only missions seem far more manageable on one's own.
Read full review »GameZone
7/10
Despite its frustrations, Styx’s stealth mechanics and Deus Ex-ian level design will continue to drive you forward in a game that is longer than you’d think.
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Posted on: January 14, 2025
Tooktook
Verified ownerGames: 96 Reviews: 3
Hummmmm
The reason for my review is the shamful decision someone made to make a boss fight, that would be quite difficult, reset you to TWO load screens and a 'click on a quest marker' before the fight EACH time. Rather than SIMPLY ADDING AN AUTO-SAVE at the beginning of the scene. Sorry but, no thanks.
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Posted on: October 8, 2024
jfreibott
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I don't want to wirte reviews, but...
Gog is still pestering me.
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Posted on: October 29, 2024
TheGreenFellow
Verified ownerGames: 63 Reviews: 4
Uninstalled in less than 5 minutes
Absolutely cringeworthy 4th-wall-breaking main character dialogue writing referencing Disney/Dreamworks childhood movie characters is what made me bounce off the start to this game. The default audio is jacked up to 100 blowing out your eardrums when firing the game up for the first time - which isn't too unusual a sin for a game, but it's paired with the sin of multiple unskippable logo-movies before you can get to the main menu. The character animations in the cinematic sequence are awkward and not matched up to the audio, and there's glaring visual issues like low-res textures that stick out like a sore thumb. The ledge-grabbing is unecessarily clunky, the jumping is weirdly floaty. I just don't understand how this is an acceptable platforming or stealth game. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time & its sequels did the 3rd person platformer eons ago and much better, and there's any number of stealth games that show how it's done. Not worth a pickup.
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Posted on: April 25, 2020
Le chat qui joue
Verified ownerGames: 591 Reviews: 68
FROM PACHYDERM TO CETACEAN
My love for the first Styx was like an elephant. But for the second Styx, Shard of Darkness, my love is like a whale.
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