
Progress in the shadows, assassinate your targets in close combat, or orchestrate «accidents». Prowl through the huge, miles-high Tower of Akenash, completing various missions (assassination, information recovery, etc.) and avoiding detection. Graphicsįrom the visual side, the developers have made a big step.About This Game Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements taking place in a dark fantasy universe, where you sneak, steal and assassinate your way through as Styx, a Goblin two-centuries of age.ĭeep inside the vertiginous and multi-layered forsaken Tower of Akenash, where Humans and Elves protect the World-Tree, source of the Amber – a powerful and magical golden sap – is hidden Styx’ chance to understand his true origin. Styx, as before, will receive experience points for sneaking through and killing enemies, which can be spent on pumping his abilities.

The genre of the game has not changed – we still have a well-thought-out hidden passage mechanics. Styx must find out what the representatives of two hostile races are up to in order to save his own. The main character knows that elves and dwarves are united by only one thing – it is mutual hatred for the entire goblin race. It's impossible to get into this elf city just like that, but Styx's stealth skills allowed him to bypass the guards.

They organized a large congress of diplomats in the impregnable city of Karngar. The main character remains the same, but now he will not just solve the mystery of his origin, but find out about the plans of the dark elves and dwarves. The events unfold immediately after the completion of the story shown in the first part.

The same well-known Cyanide Studio team worked on the development. Styx: Shards of Darkness is the second game in the Styx series, which tells about the adventures of a goblin named Styx.
