Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones

[h1]ANOTHER MEDIOCRE GAME BUILT ON LOVECRAFT'S BONES[/h1] Folks, if you're looking for a Lovecraftian Horror CRPG - keep looking. This game is a classic example of a great concept completely ruined by poor execution. THE MAIN ISSUE - IT'S BORING AS HELL I honestly gave this game 3 or 4 chances. I somehow sank 36 hours into it, and every single time, I ended up dropping it halfway through. The turn-based combat has almost no tactical depth. It's just boring. Every fight feels like a slow, repetitive chore, and you can't really avoid them either. No talking your way out, no sneaking past enemies, no running away - just one tedious battle after another. WE'VE SEEN IT ALL BEFORE A sanity meter? Check Cosmic horrors beyond human comprehension? Check. Generic cultists, Roaring twenties gangsters, forbidden knowledge..? What we get is a pile of cliches with no original idea or engaging gameplay. It feels like the developers made a checklist of Lovecraft tropes instead of an actual game. It's a shame, really. Good CRPGs are becoming increasingly rare, and this could've been one of them.

This game has it's good and bad. I am a fan of Lovecraftian media, though rarely are they very good, it's a hard theme to convey. I thought this did a pretty good job of it for the most part. I love the art style and the story is solid enough until the end. The game has some control issues occasionally, but nothing horrible, and although I see others stating they encountered game breaking bugs, I didn't encounter any in 2 playthroughs. There is no other way to put it, the ending is garbage. My understanding is that they ran out of funding and just ended the game as best they could and it shows, there are major questlines not finished when it ends. I picked this up on sale for just a few bucks, and definitely feel like I got my moneys worth, but doubt I would encourage anyone to pick it up at full price due to the missing back end of the game.

Nice game! With some bugs but no problem at all! The ending hurts!

this game needs a remake, especially the combat system is annoying

The games atmosphere is great, but the combat is a deal breaker. Tactics are none existent and you are at the mercy of one sided RnG. Dont waste your time and money, the game is abandoned

I get what this game is going foe but there are way better ways. Like the limited amount of healing items to only be one's with negative effects and prices is poorly done too the point of artificial difficult. Also if it's not that it's the fact that the pathing is as lazy as humanly possible. More often than not i'll click on an object for my character to run into it and stop. Then as i click on it they'll just stand there. I'll then have to manually click on the other side, waiting some more for them to walk around, and finally search the object. You'd think this would be common sense; but Utilize The Hot Bar! like i see the wheel for the quick select and spells. I just wish it was more apparent or i was better told so i didn't spend many fights wasting finite items mid battles when i could use them in battle. Actually i had to google how to use my "Quick Select" items because the game did such a poor job at telling me how Edit: I'm still on the first area and i've been trying to fight the mob group at this one building in the center to find out that all because the devs don't want you to be there yet enemies will literally infinitely spawn till you die. I know because i'm on my…