Styx: Shards of Darkness overview

Overview

Styx: Shards of Darkness comes from Cyanide Studio and is published by Nacon. It arrived on Steam on Mar 14, 2017, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, and Steam Cloud. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Styx: Shards of Darkness's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 121 players at 21 September 2026 - 22:56:45 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1,231. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 83% positive across 6,831 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Styx: Shards of Darkness is available in 8 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Styx: Shards of Darkness has sold up to 377,000 units and has 5,092 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $7,900,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Styx: Shards of Darkness overview details

Styx: Shards of Darkness combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses , and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal. Sneak your way alone, or with a friend in coop mode! Climb the dizzying Elven city, traverse the perilous territory of the Dwarfs, and survive vast unexplored lands filled with lethal dangers to fulfill your mission… failure to succeed could have huge consequences for your kin. Climb, swing, and hang through multi-layered sandbox environments brought to life with Unreal Engine 4 . Creep and hide in the darkest corners, or reach heights to avoid detection. Spend experience points in assassination , infiltration , magic , etc. to learn new skills and abilities. Explore the world to recover valuable artifacts, find ingredients to craft deadly traps and useful items, and create clones of yourself to distract and deceive the many types of enemies on your way - the choice is yours!

SteamPulse editorial summary

Styx: Shards of Darkness is listed as a game with $19.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Online Co-op, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, and Steam Cloud, and is associated with Action and Adventure. SteamPulse's latest observation records 121 players at 21 September 2026 - 22:56:45 UTC, a tracked peak of 1,231, and 83% positive reviews.

Overview tags

StealthSingleplayerActionAdventureStory RichAtmosphericThird PersonAssassinViolentParkourDark FantasyCo-opFantasyDark HumorMultiplayer

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Support and legal notes

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