The master of stealth is back! Explore the dizzying heights of the Iserian Continent and cunningly eliminate your enemies. Thanks to your Quartz powers, you are freer than ever. Be creative: Never has it felt so good to be greedy.
Styx: Blades of Greed offers a literal classic stealth adventure, with expanded level design and gameplay mechanics, yet it struggles significantly in its story, mission structure, and both main and secondary characters.
Styx is a little goblin fella. He likes to sneak around with his dagger primed, ready to open the jugular of anyone who gets in his way. He's gre...
Although I don't consider the time spent playing Styx: Blades of Greed to be wasted, the game left me somewhat unsatisfied. Veterans of the genre will appreciate the excellent level design, but will be disappointed by the poor AI and lack of challenge, while newcomers may feel confused by numerous references to older games. Fortunately, Styx the goblin...
Inventive, satisfying, and occasionally clunky, Styx: Blades of Greed scratches that stealthing itch better than most.
Ultimately, Styx: Blades of Greed is the kind of game that plays all of its cards and exhausts its best ideas in the opening hours, only to get bogged down in chronic repetition, dragging itself, unchanged, all the way to the end credits. Its inspired level design and the clever use of the lighting system act as a saving grace, but it's genuinely hard...
