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Styx: Master of Shadows

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.

Released Oct 7, 2014Very Positive · 83% of 9.7KPEGI 16≈ 18 h to beat
Steam Deck VerifiedActionStealthSingleplayerAdventureAtmosphericViolent
Styx: Master of Shadows
Styx: Master of Shadows
Styx: Master of Shadows
Styx: Master of Shadows
Styx: Master of Shadows
Styx: Master of Shadows
Styx: Master of Shadows
Styx: Master of Shadows
Styx: Master of Shadows
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About Styx: Master of Shadows

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

Story

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Styx is a cunning goblin gifted with dark magic and unmatched skill in stealth and thievery. He sets his sights on the Tower of Akenash, a colossal fortress held aloft by the power of a great World Tree at its heart. Slipping past its guards and defenses, Styx seeks to reach the tree's core and claim the priceless amber said to reside there. Driven by clouded memories and a whispering voice in his mind, he descends deep into the tower toward secrets far greater than he expects.

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Game details

Developers
Cyanide Studio
Publishers
Cyanide Studio, Nacon
Release date
Oct 7, 2014
Genres
Action, Stealth, Singleplayer, Adventure, Atmospheric, Violent, Third Person, Story Rich, Assassin, Parkour, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, RPG, Steampunk, Magic, Difficult, Open World, Great Soundtrack, Multiplayer, Indie
Modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
Steam features
33 achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing, Remote Play, Trading cards
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Stealth
Camera
Third person
Series
Of Orcs and Men
Engine
Unreal Engine 3

Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishSupportedSupportedSupported
FrenchSupportedNot supportedSupported
ItalianSupportedNot supportedSupported
GermanSupportedNot supportedSupported
Spanish (Spain)SupportedNot supportedSupported
RussianSupportedNot supportedSupported
System requirements

Minimum

  • OS *: WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
  • Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.4 GHZ
  • Memory: 3072 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 1024 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 AND SHADERS 4.0 COMPATIBLE AMD RADEON HD 5850/NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 OR HIGHER
  • Storage: 8 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE
  • Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION

Ratings

Steam reviews

Very Positive

83% of 9.7K

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Metacritic

71

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IGDB critics

74

9 critic scores

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Age rating

PEGI 16

Bad Language and Violence

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Steam Deck & Linux

Steam Deck Verified

  • Everything works with the default controls
  • Text is readable on the Deck screen
  • Runs well with the default graphics settings
  • External controllers don't work for the main player
  • SteamOS: Playable
  • Steam Machine: Verified

ProtonDB: Platinum · 86 reports See reports

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