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Old school stealth ‘em up Styx: Shards Of Darkness is currently free to keep on GOGHit me
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As Alec wrote in hisStyx: Shards of Darkness review, what the goblin stealth ‘em up has going for it ispurity. It’s a third-person adventure where stealth is the only option and being spotted is swiftly punished.
It’s currently free from GOG.com.
Head over to itsGOG store page, push a button, and you can add it to your account. You’ve got a little less than 15 hours to grab it, however, after which it’ll cost money again.
Alas, Styx is also a bit of a fourth wall-breaking, wisecracking jerk to be around. If you don’t gel with either its sense of humour or its punishing stealth systems, then Styx can be a rough time. If you do gel with those things, then it’s probably still not better than decent.
But hey, it’s free, and I ’ve got a soft spot for the series after I reviewed Shards Of Darkness’ predecessor,Styx: Master Of Shadows. “Sometime five or ten years from now you’ll be talking about stealth games with a friend and you’ll go, ‘Oh, hey, remember Styx? That was pretty good.'”, I wrote in 2014. There’s one more year to go, but I reckon I’ll be proven wrong on that one. Still, Styx is… not awful? That’s almost the same thing. And right now it’s free.
