June 12, 2023 - Day 163 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 181
Game: Styx: Master of Shadows
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Oct 8, 2014
Library Date: Jan 23, 2023
Unplayed: 137d (4m17d)
Playtime: 19m
Styx: Master of Shadows is a third-person-ish* stealth RPG game. You play as the titular Styx, a 200 year old goblin, who's been captured and locked up while trying to obtain the game's MacGuffin. This may be intentional.
Before I decided that reviewing sequels if I didn't own previous games in the series was OK, I kept skipping over the sequel to this (thanks Humble Monthly Bundle June 2018!). When this came up for sale for $1.65 in January, I added it to my pile of shame.
It's a stealth & assassinate game. There's a storyline about elves and humans and something called amber, but it's basically just an fairly middling framing for a stealth game.
While it IS a third-person game, Styx's stealth method is to crouch, meaning that sometimes the camera breaks to first-person instead, which is somewhat disorienting.
At this point it's not bad, it's not dragging me back to play it again, it's just something that was fine to kill some time on and knock off my list for today's review while waiting for one of my poor decisions to finish downloading. I wouldn't pay full price for it, but AUD$1.65? It was worth it.
Styx: Master of Shadows is:
3: OK
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