Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
"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…
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is an adventure developed by Cultic Games, released 26 September 2019 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is an adventure game developed by Cultic Games and released in 2019. It was published by Fulqrum Publishing. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Your former life was in bliss of ignorance until you've awakened to the darkness waiting to devour our very existence on the doorstep of our fragile dimension. Something terrible left its eons old slumber and the reality as we know it, collapsed. The town of Arkham was pulled to somewhere not from this world and its residents are in the shadow of absolute terror. As a survivor of the catastrophe you should investigate the strange occurrences in the city and survive the rising darkness physically and mentally, if possible..."
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones launched on 26 September 2019, within three weeks of Disco Elysium, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).
Released around the same time: Disco Elysium, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).
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