Styx: Shards of Darkness

NOTE TO PLAYERS STARTING AT THIS GAME – WHAT DOES “RAKASH” MEAN?
This is the second Styx game (the first was “Styx, Master of Shadows”). Story wise, there’s no link between the two games, so you won’t miss anything by starting with this game (game number two) … except for one little detail:
Styx the Goblin calls other goblins “Rakash”, and it’s never explained what it means.
It’s slang term that has its origin in the first game, and for the purpose of this game (game two), it can be translated into something like “cheap version of me”.
MY OPINION ON THE GAME
The first game was great, and this game improves on everything – except for the story.
The story in the first game was intriguing and brilliantly told, but this time it’s just a run of the mill generic espionage story – with a very clumsy, anticlimactic ending!
But aside from the story, the game is really good! Great game play, gorgeous looking surroundings, fantastic level designs, and fun objectives to complete (for both casual players and for completionists).
There are around 20 maps to complete (including the tutorial). Some of the maps are used twice, you'll just have different objectives the second time you do the map.
It took me about 20 hours to complete the game (I'm a casual player).

Free on GOG!

The game, GOLLUM tried to copy, but failed in every aspect, this one is the real thing, and stil holds up to today's quality

romanian simulator

Please make another Styx game please oh my god I cant get him out of my head

It’s virtually like Middle Earth but with a small Orc as a protagonist.
Miss games like the old thief, splinter cell, etc? Then Styx SOD is for YOU.
Styx : Master of Shadows was for me the best infiltration game I ever played (and I played a LOT). But Shards of Darkness perfected it. Its main quality is clearly the level design, it's rich, dense, intricate and gorgeous.
This is the Dark Souls of stealth games. Huge open levels that you have to truly explore and seek out different routes, which are vast, to outsmart the enemy. The combat system is basically non-existent, so stealth is an absolute must. While you get objective markers at times, there are several instances where you aren't given a marker and have to search the map for a side quest or main mission objectives; which is hard as crap, but so rewarding.
Styx is also a very special kind of game where they made the design choice of making combat deliberately god awful. If you get caught, you can fight but it feels so terrible that you don't even want to do that. I actually liked that design choice because it focused the game on being exclusively a stealth game. That means they never had to cater to the Rambo playstyle at all and only had to focus on making the sneaking parts tight.
I didn’t play Styx for the story, although it's not that bad, I played for the incredible feeling of clearing a level, having collected all the objects without anyone even knowing my presence.
If you love the old stealth styled games, not just your go here and avoid this enemy by killing him or taking this ONE other route... then you'll love this.
9/10 Not enough Shrek

funny goblin commits tax evasion