Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones

Details

Playtime Not Played
Last Activity Never
Added 27/06/2020 5:28:43
Modified 9/08/2023 14:56:27
Completion Status Not Played
Library Humble Keys Library
Source Steam
Platform Humble Key: steam
PC (Windows)
Release Date 26/09/2019
Community Score 72
Critic Score
User Score
Genre Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Developer Cultic Games
Publisher Fulqrum Publishing
Feature Single Player
Links Humble Purchase URL
Steam
Tag bundle: June 2020 Humble Choice
Key: Unclaimed
Key: Unredeemed

Description

"Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones" is a supernatural horror roleplaying video game which takes place in the strange worlds of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Stygian will draw the player into a bleak journey from a ruined Arkham to the very depths of the Abyss.

The gameplay experience promises a mix of rich role-playing and turn based tactical combat in an authentic illustrative 2D graphical style.

In Stygian, you'll be able to create your character from scratch with a robust selection of archetypal backgrounds with different origin stories, attributes, skills, traits and lastly belief systems which determine how your character replenishes lost sanity, also presenting unique dialog choices.

The narrative of the game is strongly connected to the works of H. P. Lovecraft. In your quest, you'll use the haunted violin of Erich Zann to lure a fiendish deity and convince the poor wretched protagonist of "The Outsider" to join your party among many others.

The heavy burden of fighting a desperate battle with forces beyond recognition will haunt you to the end of the game. Physical combat will be scarce and difficult, spellcasting will have deep and dangerous consequences, sanity loss will leave its marks on characters as mental illnesses and sometimes the best solution will be running away from the terrors that lurk in the night.

Stygian embraces the original themes of pulp and weird fiction, incorporating them into the computer roleplaying genre, promising a fresh (or putrid from another perspective) breath of air for roleplaying fans.