Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones

 PC
User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 86 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 65 out of 86
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 86
  3. Negative: 8 out of 86

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  1. Lordgrey
    Sep 30, 2019
    3
    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    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.    … Expand
  2. RustyJames
    Sep 30, 2019
    2
    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!
  3. skohl
    May 6, 2020
    1
    My experience with the game:
    I create a character, get control and start looking around the menu. I accidentally back out to the main menu while trying to resume the game. I can't load back into my character, despite him appearing in a save slot under "Load Game," there is no option to load.
    So I create the character again, and start looking around the menu again. While I'm tinkering    My experience with the game:
    I create a character, get control and start looking around the menu. I accidentally back out to the main menu while trying to resume the game. I can't load back into my character, despite him appearing in a save slot under "Load Game," there is no option to load.
    So I create the character again, and start looking around the menu again. While I'm tinkering with the resolution, the game bugs out and I can no longer exit the menu. I can't continue playing, and I can't leave the game. I have to use the task manager to close the program. Uninstalled.    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

58
#58 Best PC Game of 2019

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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. RPGamer
    Dec 30, 2019
    60
    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.
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  2. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 6, 2019
    82
    The number of references to H.P. Lovecraft’s works and the fact that they are subtly woven into the main narrative and side-quests makes Stygian the most faithful lovecraftian game of recent years. [Issue#241, p.60]
  3. PLAY! Zine
    Dec 2, 2019
    95
    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.
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