Action · March 14, 2017

Styx: Shards of Darkness (2017)

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Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses , and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal. Sneak your way alone, or with a friend in coop mode! Climb the dizzying Elven city, traverse the perilous territory of the Dwarfs, and survive vast unexplored lands filled with lethal dangers to fulfill your mission… failure to succeed could have huge consequences for your kin. Climb, swing, and hang through multi-layered sandbox environments brought to life with Unreal Engine 4 . Creep and hide in the darkest corners, or reach heights to avoid detection. Spend experience points in assassination , infiltration , magic , etc. to learn new skills and abilities. Explore the world to recover valuable artifacts, find ingredients to craft deadly traps and useful items, and create clones of yourself to distract and deceive the many types of enemies on your way - the choice is yours!

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Stealth · 304
  • Singleplayer · 232
  • Action · 229
  • Adventure · 225
  • Story Rich · 223
  • Atmospheric · 221
  • Third Person · 210
  • Assassin · 207
  • Violent · 201
  • Parkour · 199
  • Dark Fantasy · 197
  • Co-op · 191
  • Fantasy · 139
  • Dark Humor · 98
  • Multiplayer · 96

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Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume6.0k Steam reviewsTop 54% in Action
Positive rating83% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 61%
Metacritic72/100Genre average 77 — top 77% of Action titles
Engagement hours7 h averageTop 61% for session depth among Action

Reception Metrics

Steam community

83%Mostly Positive · 6.0k reviews

4.9k positive · 1.0k negative

Metacritic

72/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

7.2/10

Curator recommendations

4.6k

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player
  • Co-op
  • Online Co-op

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (8)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Polish
  • Korean
  • Japanese volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Japanese

Press Quotes

“Styx is a jerkbag little goblin who is flippant, profane, and yes, a blast to play” DESTRUCTOID “A love letter to the stealth genre” JEUXVIDEO COM “Styx can hang with the likes of Ezio and Solid Snake” HARDCORE GAMER

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

7h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

4h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

0h

Current engagement

Achievements

38

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 14, 2017
DeveloperCyanide Studio
PublisherNacon
Base price$1.99 -90%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

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