Posted on: August 30, 2020

MajinBardok

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Too many bugs

This game has too many bugs (many of them game breaking) to recommend it. I love Lovecraft's stories and this game does a really good job at utilizing the source material. The atmosphere was spot on. The only problem is that i can't finish the story because the arkham stabber quest has a serious bug where two important NPCs don't spawn and make further progress impossible. There are many bugs of this caliber which result in quests that cannot be finished. The developers have clearly moved on to a new project (some cat game) and I would not assume that there will be any more patches fixing any of the many bugs i have encountered. I had much fun up until this point but in the end i am just disappointed that i cannot finish the game because of broken quests. The game is clearly unfinished and untested.

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Posted on: August 5, 2020

Hazel Hegemon

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Игр: 307 Отзывов: 3

It could have been so much more

There's one thing that seems to be an universal truth when it comes to video games - adapting Lovecraft and his works to this format is hard and rarely seems to work. There are only a handful of titles across various platforms that truly deserve to be labelled Lovecraftian and are actually fun-to-play video games at the same time. Stygian...well, it has issues with the latter part of the sentence. As far as its story, setting, art style, music, atmosphere etc. go, Stygian is simply great, even if also simple at times. You create and play as a character in Arkham, a city which has been mysteriously torn away from this world of ours and cast into some unknown dimension of utter darkness and eldritch horrors. There's plenty to see and experience here, and it is truly pleasant to see just how much love and respect the developers have for HPL's work, as well as the time period his works take place in. Some of the details here are truly things that only hardcore fans of HPL's work will know. The story and the quests are filled with mystery, but also play fairly straightforwardly. There are sometimes multiple solutions for your tasks, but in general, the game progresses fairly linearly. It is not an issue, however, since it is so well done. So why the 3 stars? Well, Stygian has one crippling fault. Its combat. To put it simply, it is awful. This isn't a combat-focused game, and the developers warn you about that from the get-go. But whether you like it or not, there are combat instances here which are essentially unavoidable. And while you can have a character/party build that will make fighting through the game a breeze, the fact still remains that the combat is poorly designed. Playing it feels like a chore and takes the joy from an otherwise fun and unique game. If you are looking for a stylish Lovecraftian RPG and are willing to ignore and deal with the glaring flaws of one of its core features, go for it. If you're looking for anything else, probably avoid.

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Posted on: August 21, 2020

pjdodd

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Игр: 107 Отзывов: 64

Depleting stats and bad combat

As a story adventure with lots of dialog and weirdness there's a lot to like from that start. The setting and art is great and the character creation offers a potential variety to progression and gameplay... BUT.... Where it fell down for me was the niggles that just kept appearing the more I played. - You cannot avoid combat and if you choose the non-physical/melee characters you are screwed. - Combat is not good and feels like I'm fighting the UI to see what's going on and what I can do, all the while ALWAYS taking stupid amounts of damage. - Your characters need food else they get exhausted - there's a constant depleting stat because of course there is - Your characters need rest else they loose sanity -, again, there's a constant depleting stat because of course there is (it just sucks the atmosphere out of the game to have to constantly bloody rest) - You are constantly rummaging through things to find cigarettes (the game's currency) and it's never enough. -I've not quite worked out why there's a stealth option in the game because it's not effective. -There's a crafting system because of course there is (I'm starting to think this game copied far too much from zombie survival games, to it's detriment)

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Posted on: September 27, 2019

nergalsmom

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Игр: 21 Отзывов: 3

Stressful Dissonance

I was really looking forward to this game but two major downfalls make me not want to finish it. The game starts out strong with a really in-dept character creation with lots of interesting character options. And then the actual game starts... 1. Not very Lovecraftian. The entire premise of the game is that the town has been transported wholesale into another dimension. The first thing that happens is your character has a surreal nightmare that serves as tutorial. Your character wakes up in the attic of the inn, goes down to the bar, relates his nightmare and everyone is like "yeah, well, who doesn't". I'm sorry, but... One cannot slap some tentacles and a sanity system on a game and call it lovecraftian. There is no tension here between the everyday and the otherworldly, no conflict between insanity and blissful ignorance. The setting is starkly opressive and bizarre, but lovecraftian it is not. 2. The gameplay. Stygian is, at it's heart, a crpg/point-and-click/survival game. Ambitious, combining three genres like that! Let's see how it pans out. Imagine standing in a room, clicking on various objects and reading the well written descriptions, when suddenly the hunger ticks into your rations. Ooops! better rush through the game, I need that cash for weapons and fuel for my lantern, wich by the way also drains in real time. Imagine being arbitarily unable to rest at the inn, franticly searching through town for some other option of recovering health and fatigue, all while - yes that's right - all while the hunger system takes nibbles at your draining cash. I'm sorry, but no. The survival mechanics only detract from the game, and while it's not quite as bad as I make it out, it's an insane design decision in direct conflict with the rest of the game. A highly dissapointing and frustrating experience, 1/5 for me.

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Posted on: July 14, 2021

commonvermin

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Игр: 126 Отзывов: 1

Linux Users Beware - They Do Not Care

Straight up what the title says. As of one of game's last patches the game DOES NOT WORK on Linux systems. You might be able to launch the game once, but after that it will never load. This has been a reported upon issue for more than a year now - https://www.gog.com/forum/stygian_reign_of_the_old_ones/stygian_bugs - yet GOG continues to advertise and sell a NONFUNCTIONAL GAME to its users. Both GOG and the Developer of Stygian have made it clear they do not care about these issues, and that they are not going to fix them. Buy the Steam version - it works for every user. Especially buy it on Steam if you are on Linux so that you can actually play the game, but honestly you should buy the game on Steam anyways so that you aren't supporting the practice of continuing to sell a game that is fundamentally broken. So that's the short of it. This is my entire experience with the GOG version of the game. GOG knows that this is all Linux users entire experience with the GOG version of the game, and does nothing. What else am I supposed to say?

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