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Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Released On: Sep 26, 2019
81
8.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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65% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
81
65% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
35% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Stygian is a masterful, and pretentious cRPG that bravely immerses you into the world of HP Lovecraft in the eeriest and non-linear level. It presents great storytelling influenced by writer’s diabolical cosmic horrors and at the same time, it is a fully-fledged fun turn-based RPG that lives up to the names of much more famous and expensive games in the genre.
I honestly don’t think this game is getting the attention it deserves. The bad things (bugs, balance, optimization) in this game can be patched while the core of this game is phenomenal. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s work, you are doing yourself a huge disservice by not checking this one out.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 89 User Ratings
8.0
74% Positive
66 Ratings
66 Ratings
16% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
10% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 89 User Ratings
8.0
74% Positive
66 Ratings
66 Ratings
16% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
10% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
I enjoyed every moment of playing Stygian: Reign of Old Ones. There may be questionable decisions in including such a wide variety of mythos creatures in a single release, but the decision to set the game basically after the end of the world (as far as Arkham is concerned) is a fresh take. Stygian oozes atmosphere, craft, and effort. I love it, it’s great, and you should play it.
Faithfully adapted, bristling with depth, beautifully written and gorgeous to look at, Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is a fantastic role-playing game that’s hampered by a frustrating and tedious combat system that is sure to turn many players away in the early goings.
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is a treat for die-hard Cthulhu fans. The thick, heavy atmosphere of Lovecraft's stories drips out of every pixel. It's a pity that I couldn't ignore tons of bigger and smaller bugs (abysmal game stability included) that halted all the fun.
Although multiple issues persist throughout the title, such as the aforementioned tedious combat and sub-par pathfinding, the quality of the game's writing (when all the words are spelled correctly) and interwoven Lovecraft stories are enough to keep any fan of CRPGs interested throughout two or three separate playthroughs.
If a steep difficulty curve, the promise of learning and juggling deep gameplay systems, and keeping a close eye trained on stats at all times sound right up your alley, or if you just want to be immersed in a well-made, atmospheric world, then Stygian is well worth checking out.
This game is soo good ı love it becuse it is my firs game ı am stard playing video games and this is super ı loved this game
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Este título me sorprendió enormemente. Soy amante de las novelas del maestro H.P. Lovecraft y cada vez que sale un título basado en su universo se me hace el chirri agua pero a la vez me cago de miedo debido a los bodrios lovecraftianos que he llegado a probar.
Stygian plantea un juego tranquilo, de disfrutar de los diálogos y de la historia. Con un combate por turnos con puntos de acción al estilo de Divinity o juegos similares pero mucho más simplificado.
La atmósfera es brutal y la inmersión en el juego también, se acerca muchísimo a la libertad y toma de decisiones (con sus correspondientes consecuencias) de un juego de rol de papel y lápiz y eso es algo que a mi, por lo menos, me gusta.
El juego aún no está terminado y por ello no es excesivamente largo pero debido a las posibilidades de crear diferentes personajes con diferentes estilos de juego es muy rejugable ya que al acercarse tanto al papel y al lápiz las habilidades sociales e intelectuales toman gran relevancia en este juego.
La dificultad es aceptable, no es un paseo pero tampoco es imposible lo que crea un juego ameno y divertido en el que las horas pasan sin darte cuenta mientras juegas.
No hay mucho más que decir sobre Stygian, si te gusta Lovecraft y el rol de papel y lápiz, juégalo. Si esperas un juego frenético con cientos de horas de historia o gráficos fotográficos y alucinantes, este no es tu juego.
De momento le doy un 7 pero si en el futuro se amplia la historia manteniendo lo actual, probablemente aumente la nota.
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Great: Plot, setting, atmosphere, artdisign, roleplay system. All of this realy exelent, at beging all looks a great, but later you see a lot of problems.
Bad: primitive inparty characters and relations, broken ballans, railway storyline, useless craft
Terrible: all about tech.part and mechanics realisation. This is about realisation of the saves system, boring battles, megatonns of bugs, unevident mechanics. The worst at all its GUI, it realy scarest part of the game. And finaly- game ending, it looks like a book without a last 150 pages of the novel.
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Overrated and pretentious. Don't waste your time and money.
System requirements are peace of joke! Bad graphics and design, annoying music and sound, no optimization, no balance, no storyline - just bunch of stupid quests. Gameplay? Just an extremely bad copy of xcom-style battle system.
And, the key fact - there is no Lovecraft's atmosphere!
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Summary Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Sep 26, 2019
Developer:
- Cultic Games
Publisher: Cultic Games
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