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Styx: Shards of Darkness

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App ID 355790
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Nacon
Franchise Nacon
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Unreal Engine
Last Changenumber 31484369
Last Record Update 4 October 2025 – 21:13:29 UTC ()
Release Date 14 March 2017 – 16:57:44 UTC ()
😎 80.80%
6k reviews
27
In-Game
+2
🥷 Stealth 💥 Action 🗺️ Adventure 📚 Story Rich 🌫 Atmospheric

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.

Additional Information

Developer Cyanide Studio
metacritic_name Styx: Shards of Darkness
controller_support full
metacritic_score 72
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/styx-shards-of-darkness?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
community_visible_stats Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Nacon
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Store Release Date 14 March 2017 – 16:58:00 UTC ()
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community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Adventure (25)
Store Genres Action (1), Adventure (25)
Steam Release Date 14 March 2017 – 16:57:44 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 16 July 2019 – 15:06:22 UTC () (1563289582)
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Detected Technologies (?) Unreal Engine, NVIDIA_APEX SDK, NVIDIA_PhysX SDK, Ogg SDK, Vorbis SDK, Wwise SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on Steam Deck
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  • SteamOS:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on SteamOS
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  • category: Unsupported
  • steamos_compatibility: Unsupported
  • test_timestamp: 23 February 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 2263946
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    gamescope_frame_limiter_not_supported0
    hdr_support0
First seen on SteamDB 10 March 2015 – 09:27:50 UTC (), in changelist #932728

Supported Languages

8 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes
Polish Yes Yes Yes
Korean Yes Yes Yes
Japanese Yes Yes

Tags

🥷 Stealth 👤 Singleplayer 💥 Action 🗺️ Adventure 📚 Story Rich 🌫 Atmospheric 👤 Third Person 🗡️ Assassin 🧗 Parkour 🤝 Co-op 👊 Violent 🧝 Dark Fantasy 🎭 Fantasy 🕹️ Multiplayer 🗿 Dark Humor 🌍 Open World 🤣 Memes 🎲 RPG 🤡 Comedy 😓 Difficult

Categories

Single-player Online Co-op Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Steam Cloud Remote Play on TV Family Sharing Multi-player Co-op Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

Hardware Categories

Full Controller Support

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timestamp17 October 2025 – 12:30:09 UTC

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timestamp 10 March 2017 – 11:31:22 UTC

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timestamp 16 January 2017 – 18:03:41 UTC

Steam charts

  • 27 players right now
  • 113 24-hour peak
  • 1,241 all-time peak 14 March 2017
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  • 7 24-hour peak
  • 56,117 all-time peak
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User reviews history

  • 😎 Very Positive
  • 80.80% SteamDB Rating
  • 5,239 83.2% positive reviews
  • 1,059 16.8% negative reviews

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Markers

Date Label 30-day Peak
14 March 2017 Steam Release -
1 June 2018 ⇄ Humble Bundle: June 2018 Humble Monthly #32 -
5 December 2018 ⇄ Fanatical: Kingslayer Bundle -
26 March 2020 ⇄ Fanatical: Platinum Collection - Build Your Own Bundle (Mar 2020) -
25 August 2021 ⇄ Humble Bundle: Humble Best of Stealth Bundle -
2 March 2022 ⇄ Fanatical: Build Your Own Backstage Bundle 2 -
15 December 2022 ⇄ Humble Bundle: Best of Stealth - Holiday Encore -
29 December 2022 ⇄ Fanatical: Build Your Own Mythic Bundle -
15 March 2024 ⇄ Fanatical: Dollar Collections Games (Mar 2024) -
16 May 2024 ⇄ Fanatical: Build Your Own Nexus Bundle -
7 October 2024 ⇄ Fanatical: Build Your Own Fantasy Bundle (Fall 2024) -
30 December 2024 ⇄ Fanatical: Build Your Own Triple Pack - Fantasy Edition -

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How many players are playing Styx: Shards of Darkness right now on Steam?

Steam player counter indicates there are currently 27 players live playing Styx: Shards of Darkness on Steam.

Styx: Shards of Darkness had an all-time peak of 1241 concurrent players on 14 March 2017.

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