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Games Like Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Sep 26, 2019·66% positive·
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Best games like Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
The best games like Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones are Lovecraft's Untold Stories, SKALD: Against the Black Priory, Darkest Dungeon®, WORLD OF HORROR, and Stirring Abyss. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 66% positive across 2k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across RPG, Indie, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $19.99 pricing signal.
- Lovecraft's Untold Stories - Lovecraft's Untold Stories is closely similar to Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones because both are RPG and Indie games, and share gameplay elements like RPG, Indie, Lovecraftian, Horror.
- SKALD: Against the Black Priory - SKALD: Against the Black Priory is closely similar to Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones because both are RPG and Indie games, and share gameplay elements like RPG, and fit the same co-op story and systems/automation/colony and narrative choice intent.
- Darkest Dungeon® - Darkest Dungeon® is closely similar to Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones because both are RPG and Indie games, and share gameplay elements like RPG, Indie, Lovecraftian, and fit the same systems/automation/colony intent.
- WORLD OF HORROR - WORLD OF HORROR is closely similar to Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones because both are RPG and Indie games, and share gameplay elements like RPG, Lovecraftian, Horror, Turn-Based Combat.
- Stirring Abyss - Stirring Abyss is closely similar to Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones because both are RPG and Indie games, and share gameplay elements like RPG, Indie, Lovecraftian, and fit the same systems/automation/colony intent.
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About the Game
In Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, the player journeys from a doomed Arkham into the depths of the Abyss. Create your own character based on 1920's archetypes and carve a path through a broken and mysterious world. Your desperate battle against forces beyond comprehension will haunt you until the end. Physical combat will be challenging, spellcasting will have dire consequences, and your sanity will be strained to the breaking point by unknown abominations. Sometimes the best solution will be to flee what lurks beyond the threshold.
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A hand drawn 2D world reflecting Lovecraft's themes of cosmic horror and dread.
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Enemies, environments and storylines inspired by Lovecraft’s iconic original works. Take part in quests inspired by your favorite stories and see them play out according to your own decisions and role-playing style.
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Choose from 8 main character Archetypes, each with its own origin backstory and specialties.
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A host of weird companions will accompany you on your ill-starred journey: the lonely, antediluvian 'Outsider', a fallen soldier of the Great War reanimated by Herbert West. Recruit these and other outlandish beings to your crew.
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Your character's Sanity and mental state will influence dialogue options. Mental illness comes with advantages as well as hindrances. Sometimes it pays to be mad in a world gone mad!
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Stygian's Belief System determines how your characters cope with the warped reality of the new Arkham, as well as the rate at which they regenerate lost Sanity. Belief Systems also offer unique dialogue options, expanding the breadth of role-playing possibilities.
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A new kind of spell system which sometimes takes more than it gives. Being a master of the occult is not as simple as flinging colored missiles from your fingertips. The black magic of Stygian is potent but may cost you your mind, your health, and possibly even much more.
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Strategic, turn-based combat from a 2D perspective, similar to the classic Heroes of Might and Magic games.
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The struggle in Stygian is not to save the world, for that battle is lost already. Pursue your own goals in these end times: salvation, vendetta, or perhaps something darker.
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