Stygian: Outer Gods Preview – Peeking Into the Abyss

by Jim Smale · May 2, 2025

Stygian: Outer Gods preview – Step into the eerie depths of Stygian: Outer Gods, where eldritch horrors lurk just beyond perception. This early glimpse teases the abyssal nightmares, intricate world-building, and immersive mechanics, setting the stage for something truly unsettling yet captivating. Will you dare to uncover the creeping madness before its final form takes shape?

Stygian: Outer Gods Preview Pros:

Awesome graphics.
11.49GB download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – Window mode, resolution, v-sync, quality preset, field of view slider, motion blur, anti-aliasing, super resolution, post processing, and auto set quality.
Gameplay settings – set sprint and crouch to toggle or hold.
Mouse and keyboard support.
Controls settings – you can invert the axis and sensitivity sliders for the controller and mouse. Both the controller and the keyboard controls can be remapped.
Set controller icons to Xbox or Playstation.
3D headphones support.
Five save slots.
Three game difficulties – Easy, Normal, and Hard.
Adventure gameplay.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
First-person view.
A full 3D game world, and you can move 360 degrees.
You answer some multiple-choice questions that can make stats better or worse, so it’s a kind of character creator.
Memorable and impressive sequences and set pieces.
I really like the atmosphere of the game.
The game uses the Occult as its main theme, but it has Lovecraft’s influence and many otherworldly elements.
Lighting makes every inch of the place drip in despair and gloominess, it’s awesome.
At the start, you get to pick a Seer card to add an ability to your character – heavy melee attack, stealth foot steps, perfect blocks, talk to the killing dead, highlight Interactive points while scrying, use artifacts, deal a lot of damage to the back, and lift heavier objects.
Due to the themes, the game does a lot of different realm switches, and they can happen at any time; they look so good and add so much.
Multiple-choice questions and answers can shape the path you follow within the story.
Such a beautiful, if a bit rundown and full of evil, location.
Workbenches let you craft anything you’ve got the blueprint for.
Materials and resources can be found in the world.
The stamina system is in play for fighting and running.
Hack and slash like combat, you can block, etc, but it’s very much a fist fight with occasional weapon usage.
Investigate occult structures and items to try to work out what’s happening in this town.
You can pick up items and throw them, depending on what they are, and they can break.
In many instances, there are multiple ways to get them done.
Has a strong detective vibe as you are in a town that’s gone weird, like Lovecraft’s dark descent levels.
You can pick locks, find keys, etc.
In-game cutscenes and character interactions.
A really cool feature is that you save at a mirror, and saving causes it to smash! It’s the small things, but I love it.
Central chest to transfer items into.
The game’s atmosphere (I go on about it again) is so good, even the way the leaves blow in the wind, to the rain and noises, it’s so good.
The map fills in with points of interest as you discover them.
A lot of puzzles and general exploration are needed.
Due to the theme of it all, my sanity is a big deal and is affected as you discover and see Occultish things.
The hot bar lets you quickly go through items and weapons, on the controller,r it’s the d pad.
Use the environment amd items to distract enemies.
The journal keeps tabs on quests and clues.

Stygian: Outer Gods Preview Cons:

They only have Xbox 360 or Playstation 4 button icons, so no generic or Nintendo ones.
No real accessibility options like Colourblind support.
Clicking auto-set graphics can sometimes cause the game to hang.
As soon as I get to the outside portions of the gam, the performance just nose dives and drops frames, gets choppy, and is generally unpleasant.
Finding what can or cannot be picked up is not easy, as they don’t have a great tell like flashing, etc. I mean, they do flash, but it’s very slight, and you can sometimes miss them.
It’s a shame you can’t save when you want, as you never know when you are going to be near a save mirror.
A few weird robotic robotic-looking people in their movements.
You can stealth in the game, but you don’t have any indicators on how you are doing or if someone sees you. I mean, the silent footsteps will help, but that Seer card was not the one I wanted, so being a stampy stomp stealth ninja, it would be cool to have indicators or tells.
Tutorial-wise wise it is just what button to press to do this or that; there isn’t really much to help with combat, stealth, or what icons mean.
Inventory, map, and anything but the start button does not pause the game.
The game world has a ton of detail, but you don’t get to interact with it like opening drawers and cupboards; it’s very sterile in that you only pick up a set type of resources, and it kind of kills the mood.

Stygian: Outer Gods:

Official Website:

Developer: Misterial Games

Publisher: Fulqrum Publishing Ltd.

Store Link:

Steam Early Access