And just standing on a precipice, high bridge, or balcony and looking out at the sheer scale of these levels. I'm an aesthetics zealot, who values the artistic approaches rather than how high res the textures are. This is something of an admission - I'm not a graphics zealot, no, not one of those. The aesthetics from the second mission on just made me smile. * A unique setting which feels reminiscent of Thief, but with beautiful aesthetics, so the proceedings don't always feel so dark, dismal, and dreary. I'm just looking at what my twenty quid (or thereabouts) got me, here. I'll probably just end up buying it for a friend. And with a game this niche, I worry about their future financial prospects.

With all the fun I've had out of it, I would have been happy paying twice the price. The only thing I'm not satisfied with is the price - which may seem like a funny thing to say, but I feel like I've robbed them. Please, oh please, you'd make an old fart ever so happy.īut yes. No killing at all, knocking out only, and lots and lots of secrets and thievery. I'd actually love to see them try their hand at a proper Thief game next. It feels like being a PC owner in the '90s again, and I mean that in the best possible way. I had a fun enough time with Of Orcs and Men, but Styx just blew me poor old mind. I'm looking forward to seeing whatever they put out next, if it's like this. This put the Isle of Cyanide on my map, it did, even though that sounds like a somewhat questionable place to want to go. Yeah, considering the budget of this game and the price, I'm amazed at how inventive they were with their more limited resources.

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