Styx: Blades of Greed Reviews
Styx: Blades of Greed is a set of very good stealth mechanics and well designed levels wrapped in a fairly uninteresting and occasionally baffling narrative.
Styx: Blades of Greed has everything going for it- bigger levels, better abilities, and an increased budget. What’s stopping it from being far better than it is right now are the engine-related issues and the floaty controls. If Cyanide can get some of these things fixed in time, then I’ll have no qualm in declaring it as the best Styx adventure yet. There’s nothing like Styx out there, at least, not anymore. Cyanide, hold onto it.
Styx: Blades of Greed is a genuinely enjoyable stealth-em-up with satisfying kills, traps, and sneaking. Built on a world and story that started 12 years ago, newcomers might be a little lore lost but that won’t get in the way of you slitting throats, melting corpses, or mind controlling a soldier to his doom.
Styx provides solid stealth gameplay in a world rich with choice and freedom. The simplicity of its mechanics and tightness of its controls help to make the experience fun from the get-go, but its held back slightly by some technical issues, dated visuals and the lack of a minimap.
Styx: Blades of Greed is a mechanically strong stealth game that enhances the series' sense of freedom with larger maps, vertical design, and acrobatic gameplay. Its ability to offer players different paths to progress and maintain its dark atmosphere are significant strengths. However, repetitive mission structures and weak cinematic storytelling prevent the game from fully realizing its potential.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Styx: Blades of Greed presents very enjoyable, albeit simple stealth gameplay elevated by great environmental design, though its shortcomings hold it back from achieving greatness.
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Review in German | Read full review
For dedicated stealth fans, there is still enjoyment to be found. But as it stands, Styx: Blades of Greed feels like a good game that needed more time in the oven, one that falls short of greatness because of problems that distract from what it does well.
Although Styx: Blades of Greed starts slowly and has some big technical flaws, its excellent vertical map design, satisfying stealth, and meaningful gameplay improvements ultimately make it an enjoyable adventure.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
An agile stealth game leaves a bloody taste in your mouth.
Review in Finnish | Read full review
Cyanide Studio's stealth playground delivers an endlessly satisfying goblin-in-the-shadows experience, if you can forgive its confusing story, broken AI, and technical rough edges.