Ahead of its release in February, Nacon and Cyanide Studio have dropped a demo for Styx: Blades of Greed onto Steam, letting players check out the first hour of the game. Styx: Blades of Greed is launching across PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC on 19th February.
This is a time-limited demo, which will be pulled from availability at some point, but if you do slink in to check it out on PC and buy the game on that platform, then your save will carry across to the full game.
The demo kicks off from the very start of the game, where you’ll get to experience Styx infiltrating a golem and destroying it from the inside out, and then take on his first real mission to steal a zeppelin right out from under the Inquisition and break through their blockade of The Wall.
This is just a taster of what the full game has to offer, with Styx and his crew visiting three open environments to sneak through, and picking up new tricks, powers and tools to let him explore further and further. There’s things like a grappling hook and glider, there’s new Quartz powers for mind control and time shifting, and a story that weaves together the human Inquisitors, Orcs and Elves in variously nefarious ways.
I previewed Styx: Blades of Greed back at Gamescom, and it was this opening section of the game that I had the chance to play back then. After a lenghty hiatus between games, I said, “It’s genuinely great to see Styx: Blades of Greed bringing the mouthy goblin assassin back for a new generation. The previous games had a scrappy upstart kind of charm to them, and that’s continuing through here, with Cyanide getting more ambitious in how they construct the game into a stealthy playground. Styx might never be a truly revolutionary series, but it’s still plenty of fun, and I’m looking forward to the game’s release later this year.”
Source: press release
