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Styx: Shards of Darkness Delayed, But Gets First Gameplay Trailer

ByRuaraidh Dempster 6 October 201613 May 2018

Stealth game Styx: Shards of Darkness has been delayed to sometime early 2017 as opposed to its original late 2016 release. The title hadn’t yet received a specific release date and the team at Cyanide Studios wanted more time to transition the engine to Unreal Engine 4.

Styx: Shards of Darkness is the sequel to 2014’s Styx: Master of Shadows which itself, was based upon Cyanide’s previous title Of Orcs and Men. Taking place in an odd world where you play as a goblin, Styx, and stealth your way past the usual good-guys of a story – humans and elves and such. The story, like Styx himself, never took itself too seriously and has always been a positive to the series.

The sequel, which is now set for Q1 2017, is set to have a larger budget and wil focus even more on in-depth stealth mechanics. The first Styx title was praised for being a pure-stealth game as opposed to many stealth titles nowadays but wasn’t perfect. Styx: Shards of Darkness is setting out to remedy this with shiny new graphics – thanks to Unreal Engine 4 – and new mechanics such as crafting. Some gameplay can be seen below.

Ruaraidh Dempster

Ruaraidh - pronounced Roo-Ree - is a Scottish gamer with the name and games to prove it. He enjoys mostly everything, unless it involves exercise, and much prefers to run around inside a good, open-world RPG, being chased across the lands by a horde of monsters after his sweet loot. When he has made his escape, he will often return to the real world to continue playing anything with a good story - indie or otherwise.