Styx:Master Of Shadows - New ARPG Game

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Cyanide Studio's announces a new ARPG called Styx: Master Of Shadows. Looks like the goblin sidekick from Of Orcs And Men got his own spin-off. Here are the details.

CYANIDE AND FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE UNVEIL STYX: MASTER OF SHADOWS IN SCREENSHOTS

Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements developed by Cyanide Studio for PC. After many months in development, Styx: Master of Shadows can now reveal the very first official screenshots: here we see Styx, the playable character in the game, progressing through some of the dizzying levels composing the adventure.

Styx is a Goblin two centuries old... the very first of all the Goblins, he’s a master in the arts of stealth, theft, and murder. The depths of the miles-high Tower of Akenash, where Humans and Elves hide and protect the Tree, the source of the Amber, are the best chance Styx has of quickly amassing a small fortune and, perhaps, discover more about his true origins along the way.

Battle your way to the top of the lofty Tower of Akenash through immense and vertiginous levels that highlight the vertical perspective. You will complete numerous missions with various objectives as you climb up – murder, information recovery, theft of precious artifacts, etc – and gradually reconstruct the puzzle that provides the key to the mystery of your origins. The levels are open and the objectives can be completed in various ways: you are therefore free to choose the best way to proceed and the most suitable strategy to employ to achieve and complete your mission objectives. But remember you’re a Goblin: if your target is twice your size, or more, you're better off eliminating them silently… and in the back!
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After the draught in 2013... I'm pretty dizzy seeing so many new titles in a short time.
Um... No, it must be beer.

Keep 'em coming!
 
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Never played Of Orcs & Men but this looks kinda cool.

Hopefully it has an emphasis on stealth/sneaking.
 
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CraigCWB said:
How was 2013 worse than any other year, this last decade or more?
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It was the worst year for gaming in quite some time, and not just for RPGs. Even statistically, the overall critic scores (both from reviewers and users) were at an all time low. There were barely any major hits in any genre. I think GTA5 was the only real super hit.
 
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Maylander said:
It was the worst year for gaming in quite some time, and not just for RPGs. Even statistically, the overall critic scores (both from reviewers and users) were at an all time low. There were barely any major hits in any genre. I think GTA5 was the only real super hit.
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Rome II should have been a monster hit too, though obviously not as big as GTA5. I didn't buy either one, and I'm a fan of both franchises. Looking at my Steam library it looks like the only 2013 release I got in 2013 was the FTP Jagged Alliance Online. In 2012 the only new release I picked up was XCOM. I got two 2011 releases in 2011, Skyrim and SWTOR. Dunno, I guess I'm not very representative, but I spend a lot of time looking for old games I missed or didn't want to pay full price for when they came out. That, and replaying games I've had in my library for years. Been a really bad decade+ for RPGs, as far as I'm concerned. And in recent years even other genres I used to like have morphed into genres I don't enjoy much, anymore. Not sure what that's all about but if some of these high profile kickstarter projects don't deliver, I'm like to give up on PC gaming entirely :)
 
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