Styx: Blades of Greed wastes no time dragging you back into its murky world of shadow‑slick corridors, whispered threats, and razor‑edged opportunity. From the moment you slip into its labyrinth of treachery, the game invites a deeper exploration of its stealth‑driven tension and goblin‑grinned mischief. Every step feels like a gamble, every corner a test of nerve, and every stolen moment a reminder that Styx’s world rewards only the bold, the cunning, and the quietly ruthless.

Styx: Blades of Greed Review Pros

• Decent graphics. 
• 21.04GB download size. 
• Platinum trophy. 
• Accessibility settings – Colourblind support, and controller vibration toggle. 
• Audio sliders for – voices, music, cinematic, interface, effects, and master volume slider. 
• Graphics settings – brightness slider. 
• Camera settings – horizontal, vertical auto follow toggle, Invert axis, sensitivity sliders, and field of view slider. 
• User interface settings – size scale slider, tutorials, subtitles, subtitles height, and opacity, objective labels, and icons toggle. 
• Movement options – cover input method, cover input referential, and ledge input referential. 
• 3 save slots. 
• Four game difficulties – Easy, Normal, Hard, and Goblin. 
• Stealth action gameplay. 
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play. 
• In-game cutscenes and character interactions have great voice work. 
• The game is a lot more fourth-wall-breaking, making reference to the player and mechanics in play. 
• You can pause the game. 
• You basically pick a large section of the world, and then it becomes an open world. You can pick and choose which crystals to go after, which missions you do, and I do like that, as I can just find (stumble upon) exp items and stack up on resources. 
• Resources and materials can be found in the world and are clearly marked and highlighted with your sight. 
• Amber is the bar you have and is used like mana as it goes down as you do abilities like temporary invisibility, etc. You replenish it by finding and crafting amber elixir. 
• They nailed the movement from walking, crouching, and going under tables and little holes; it’s seamless and not a huge camera adjustment exercise, which really impressed me. 
• Stealth is good, but only after I get some new abilities under my belt. 
• Nearly every room with an enemy is a puzzle game. 
• It is funny watching how dumb the AI can be and how they lose sight of you. 
• When The Ai finds you, they will stalk you and grab you from under a table. 
• Aside from guards, there are innocent civilians who will snitch on you instantly, but you can accidentally drop a knife on their vital organs, so breathing is not an option. 
• The game world locations look great, from the architecture to just how vertical it all is. 

Styx: Blades of Greed Review Cons

• The graphics and colours wash out every so often. I notice it more when loading in initially. 
• The game crashes a lot, at least two times every session, back to the dashboard. 
• Sign posting is not ideal; I stumbled across things more than intentionally. 
• The compass shows a crystal you need to cleanse, but it will add a blue streak to direct you. It only directs you to the crystal, so finding the way to actually reach the crystal is almost like a guessing game. 
• Stealth is fine except when it comes to taking out a guard, early on, and for large chunks of the game, it’s bad. You stealth and hit them, and then the last shot is like you did it with a firework, everyone knows what you did and hunts you. 
• The distraction items you get are not great and don’t work as you would expect. 
• I fell through walls and floors, which at first was funny, but then I had enemies being able to hit me and see me through the wall, which ended that bit of fun. 
• The exp system is clever, but it does slow the pace at which you can get better and make the game more fitting.

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Styx: Blades of Greed

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Developer: Cyanide Studio

Publisher: NACON

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