Styx: Shards of Darkness Screenshots Released by Cyanide Studios

Written by Brandon Hofer on May 19, 2016

News: You get a sneak peek into how development is going in Styx: Shards of Darkness with these newly released screenshots.

Styx: Shards of Darkness is coming out later this year. Earlier today Cyanide Studios released some new screenshots to show how the game is coming along in development. This Styx game is a bigger production than the original title and also features Unreal Engine 4. The screenshots that were released today highlight a few of the dangers that you might face on your journey in Styx: Shards of Darkness.

One of the hostile factions you will meet in the huge underground city of Korrangar is composed of the Dark Elves. Dark Elves were previously Elves who had to live without any amber for multiple generations. Slowly, they have been turning into fanatic and bloodthirsty creatures. They became masters in Quartz fabrication, a new, much more dangerous, source of power. They are also experts at goblin hunting and the Exterminator Dark Elf is proof of that. He has honed his skills to perfection, and is able to flush out pesky creatures hiding in dark corners and hard-to-reach places with toxic bombs.

If there's an even more dangerous place than Korrangar, it would be Wildoran, the city of goblin hunters. Wildoran inhabitants are stout people wearing heavy armour - the powerful Dwarves. Styx is unable to breach their impenetrable defence, so you must innovate and adapt to disable or avoid them. Every dwarf also has a supernatural sense of smell, and is able to slowly track Styx as he moves from cover to cover.

This is only a small example of the many enemy types Styx will face in his journey. Each faction has many unique classes of enemies and will require you to creatively utilize all of Styx's tools to overcome them: assassination, amber powers, talents and skills, equipment, etc. Deep in the most dangerous of areas lie greater foes and obstacles that are epic in size and scale - monstrous beings that overshadow anything Styx has ever seen.

Check out the screenshots below and tell us what you think. Will you be picking up Styx: Shards of Darkness when it launches later this year on Xbox One, PS4 and PC?

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