The current free game are the two Styx games. I grabbed them on Steam when I saw they went 90% off so I’d have an easier time running them on my legion go and my Android phone. I learned of the games because of them being the EGS free game and the game looked up my alley
“Styx” just reminded me Song of Syx, which is an awesome (dwarf) fortress-like indie game. You can give it’s sales an uptick instead while Styx giveaways goes on:
While I do like the first 2 Styx games (the 3rd one is out soon-ish? if not now?), they are quite the “quicksave/quickload trial and error patience games” and quite deep in the eurojank spectrum.
The climbing in the first one is pretty jank, and in both games the character breaks 4th wall deadpool-style pretty often, enemies are dumb as bricks but will absolutely murder you once alerted enough.
But on the upside, it’s one of those rare stealth games where murder is not penalized at all.
End of Feb (the 26th?), these sales seem to be to promote the launch of Part 3.
I played the 2nd one with a friend for a few hours last night. I appreciate the humor, the music selection is above average, the movement feels good and every time we died it was due to us being dumb. No bugs (playing on Linux, with GE-Proton10-27), runs great on maximum settings.
We were having an easy time by going on a murder spree, then we noticed that the game gives you rank medals for speed, avoiding kills and avoiding detection so we started playing to maximize the end-score. Those constraints make the puzzles a bit harder and I can see wanting to run a level multiple times in order to get it right.
Overall, it’s a fun experience, does the stealth thing competently and the graphics/music/animations/dialog is good.
(video games, slang) Video games from Europe (especially Eastern Europe) with ambitious concepts but lacking in execution and sometimes exhibiting unintended glitches.
I was under the assumption the Styx -devs were german, but apparently the studio is French. Either way. I also don’t recall any specific glitches, but the first game has a bit stiff climbing mechanics where you can (and will) do some unintended jumps to void etc.
Basically “AA game” instead if “AAA big budget game”
The current free game are the two Styx games. I grabbed them on Steam when I saw they went 90% off so I’d have an easier time running them on my legion go and my Android phone. I learned of the games because of them being the EGS free game and the game looked up my alley
https://store.steampowered.com/app/242640/Styx_Master_of_Shadows/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/355790/Styx_Shards_of_Darkness/
“Styx” just reminded me Song of Syx, which is an awesome (dwarf) fortress-like indie game. You can give it’s sales an uptick instead while Styx giveaways goes on:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1162750/Songs_of_Syx/
I had no idea this existed(I never even look at EGS), thanks. Now I can live out my WoW Goblin Rogue fantasies.
While I do like the first 2 Styx games (the 3rd one is out soon-ish? if not now?), they are quite the “quicksave/quickload trial and error patience games” and quite deep in the eurojank spectrum. The climbing in the first one is pretty jank, and in both games the character breaks 4th wall deadpool-style pretty often, enemies are dumb as bricks but will absolutely murder you once alerted enough.
But on the upside, it’s one of those rare stealth games where murder is not penalized at all.
That said, the games are great!
End of Feb (the 26th?), these sales seem to be to promote the launch of Part 3.
I played the 2nd one with a friend for a few hours last night. I appreciate the humor, the music selection is above average, the movement feels good and every time we died it was due to us being dumb. No bugs (playing on Linux, with GE-Proton10-27), runs great on maximum settings.
We were having an easy time by going on a murder spree, then we noticed that the game gives you rank medals for speed, avoiding kills and avoiding detection so we started playing to maximize the end-score. Those constraints make the puzzles a bit harder and I can see wanting to run a level multiple times in order to get it right.
Overall, it’s a fun experience, does the stealth thing competently and the graphics/music/animations/dialog is good.
What’s eurojank?
as per Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Eurojank)
I was under the assumption the Styx -devs were german, but apparently the studio is French. Either way. I also don’t recall any specific glitches, but the first game has a bit stiff climbing mechanics where you can (and will) do some unintended jumps to void etc.
Basically “AA game” instead if “AAA big budget game”