Buy Styx

Man, this is my 1st stealth game ever, glad i picked up this game during steam summer sale 2016, worth ever penny!
Enjoying the gampelay, the graphic and sound.
Totally recommend to buy this game!

SCORE 10/10

Great stealth game. Not too many on steam. Like Splinter Cell.

Observe. Plan. Execute.

Sometimes the controls arent as precise as they could be but doesn't detract from the experience too much. Also Styx can't grapple around ledge corners. Very silly. Would have liked throwing knives to be retrievable. You end up conserving items very a bit too much in general.

I would almost recommend this game at full price. It really is that good. But you can find it on sale quite often.

Styx: Master of Shadows - 8/10

I came into this game right after playing Of Orcs and Humans, right off the bat you can see that this is not a B list game; the developers have put a lot of effort into making this as close to a AAA as possible.

I've not played many pure stealth games before; even in the games in which you're given a stealthy option I always was going guns blazing. In Styx it's stealth or bust; but that's not a bad thing as the stealth elements are satisfying.
Combat is frowned upon; Styx is usually at a disadvantage when it comes to dueling opponents. To make matters worse the racket sparked from weapons colliding will usually attract other enemies which will have no qualsm in pincussioning you with throwing daggers while you try to block your opponent.

So you're left with the stealth option. There will always be more than one way to get past areas, some easier some harder. Slowly trying to make your way through, killing and hiding corpses or just slipping by.

Mechanics wise, the movement is pretty crisp. The only problems I've had was with jumping/hanging on to ledges.

Story-wise this is a prequel to Of Orcs and Humans and answers some of the questions that're raised in the game.
It is also a lot better written and paced.

My favorite part of the game was: Carrying the sidequest corpse through the area without being seen.
Least favorite part of the game: Final boss battle, really annoying to not be able to finish it in a stealthy manner. Having to rely on just fighting your way through.

Picked it up during the summer sale but would definitely pay the full price now that I have tried it.

Great third-person stealth game. It's a little buggy and the controls are a little too loose sometimes, but for the most part the game is massively enjoyable and challenging.

There's a feeling in this game of really earning the title, "Master of Shadows." The sneaking, murdering, and climbing you do require actual skill -- there's no parkour button to automatically bounce around the nearest convenient platforms, and hiding bonuses work in shades of gray. You might usually be invisible while hiding in a trunk, but sometimes aggrivated guards will make a point of peeking under tables and into all of your handy hiding places. The lack of predictability and precision add a layer of risk that should obviously come with the task of leaping from ledge to ledge that is rarely implemented in such a satisfying way.

There are just a few issues in the game worth pointing out: the game can be fickle in how it handles ledges. Some ledges can be hung from and shimmied across, and some can't, with no visual cue to discern which is which. This means that my ellusive goblin spent several missions plummeting face first down bottemless pits where I expected him to gracefully cling to the edge. Also, guards often get stuck on other guards in their patrol routes. Two guards walking towards each other might spend several moments mashing their faces together before sliding off and finally passing. Two guards in conversation might find themselves locking eyes in silence for eternity, instead of going about their patrol routes. For these reasons, I highly recommend save scumming through your first adventure, as the autosaves aren't exactly generous.

All in all, this is my favorite stealth game on steam, and I would highly recommend it to fans of the genre.

Styx: Master of Shadows has some sweet stealth action, good level design, interesting cloning mechanic and just a really cool goblin. It also has a clumsy story and occasional bugs

This is the best Goblin simulator ever made. It's also a damn fine pure stealth game. If you lose stealth you can recover by parrying and trying to hide again, but we all know if you get seen you are supposed to reload your last save. That's how you play a stealth game.

Styx: Master of Shadows is an amazing stealth game with an awesome story. (Even the ending is satisfying) I can’t go too far into the story without spoiling it, but basically you play as a goblin assassin/rogue that has forgotten why he is on a mission to steal the heart of the amber tree. You follow him through his journey learning his past and his true self. The stealth gameplay is amazingly polished and any true stealth fan will love it, but the combat for when you get caught is very clunky. (You will want to be playing stealth throughout the whole game) The first 15 or so minutes (the tutorial portion) is very unforgiving and turned me off of the game, but I powered through and it got 100 times better once the tutorial is over. Most of the in game levels/areas have tons of different ways to traverse the map and you can replay all of the missions. Another really cool thing in Styx: Master of Shadows is the skill system. You can basically level what skills you use the most and these dramatically changes the way you play the game.

• Amazing story and lore
  
• Great stealth elements
  
• Great level design
  
• Nice Parkour/climbing
  
• Great voice over
  
• Awesome ending
  
• Cutscene art style is awesome
  
  

• Clunky combat
  
• A few issues with gameplay (nothing game breaking or too annoying)
  
• The beginning is really unforgiving
  
• A few clipping issues
  
  

Styx: Master of Shadows is a great stealth game with tons of different features that make this game worth playing. Unfortunately, the combat when you get caught is very clunky, but this doesn’t ruin the game. It actually make the player fight the stealthiest way around. I highly recommend Styx: Master of Shadows to anyone who loves stealth games or just wants an awesome story with a challenge.


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Well, long story short, this is a hardcore stealth game. Would seriously only recommend to those who like the old school stealth games, or are used to bumping up the difficulty settings in the newer ones. It's not a bad game...no, not at all. Just that anyone who's going to be playing this for anything other than stealth will have to endure a mightily frustrating time! I consider myself a semi-hardcore (if there's such a thing even) stealth gamer and I found it just a tad frustrating on Hard difficulty. No complaints though...I'm gonna man up!

Anyways, the biggest pro is that the levels are huge (like really huge...it took me just under 2.5 hours to complete the intro alone!). Lots of routes to take, and there's lots of verticality to it. There are ample number of collectibles to find, and potions to collect and conjure more magic tricks. And you are encouraged to not kill anyone, or not be detected, or steal all loot by unlocking rewards at the end of levels. AI seems to be decent too, if not unforgiving!

The stealth elements are standard from what you'd get in Thief for example. Guards can see you when you are in light and in their line of sight. They can hear you (even tripping over pails and broomsticks). And you can hide in the shadows, where a tattoo on your body will glow orange. However, you cannot abuse the shadows as much as Thief. Even when you think you are in a dark area, if a guard comes too close, he will smell you out.

Story is so-so for me. Too early to read too much into it. Visuals are just OK as well. Some textures look like they're brought right in from 1998 though. But on the plus side, I get to max out this game on my meager GTX 750 and get 60fps most of the time at 1080p. So yeah, it's not at all graphically demanding. Voice acting is mediocre as well. Nothing bad, but nothing memorable either. The same goes for the soundtrack/sound effects.

The controls are a little finicky and you will need to spend time in the early game to get used to them. Certain jumping actions are not properly explained in the tutorial. But aside from the jumping controls, the movement controls of Styx otherwise are solid.

In closing, the game feels like the most brutal stealth game I've played, and I can assure you I've played just about all of them released in the past 5 years. Still it should be a good challenge, and I assume as I progress and get used to the gameplay more, the experience will only get better.