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.Choose from 8 main character Archetypes, each with its own origin backstory and specialties.Take part in quests inspired by your favorite stories and see them play out according to your own decisions and role-playing style. Enemies, environments and storylines inspired by Lovecraft’s iconic original works.A hand drawn 2D world reflecting Lovecraft's themes of cosmic horror and dread.Sometimes the best solution will be to flee what lurks beyond the threshold. Physical combat will be challenging, spellcasting will have dire consequences, and your sanity will be strained to the breaking point by unknown abominations.
Your desperate battle against forces beyond comprehension will haunt you until the end. Create your own character based on 1920's archetypes and carve a path through a broken and mysterious world. Stygian embraces the original themes of gothic, pulp and weird fiction, incorporating them into the computer roleplaying genre, promising a fresh (or putrid from another perspective) breath of air for roleplaying fans.In Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, the player journeys from a doomed Arkham into the depths of the Abyss. Physical combat will be scarce and difficult, spellcasting will have deep and dangerous consequences, sanity loss will leave its marks on characters as mental illnesses and sometimes the best solution will be running away from the terrors that lurk in the night. In your quest, you'll use the haunted violin of Erich Zann to lure a fiendish deity and convince the poor wretched protogonist of "The Outsider" to join your party among many others.The heavy burden of fighting a desperate battle with forces beyond recognition will haunt you to the end of the game. The narrative of the game is strongly connected to the works of H. The gameplay experience promises a mix of rich role-playing and turn based tactical combat in an authentic 2D graphical style reminiscent of 20's illustrations.In Stygian, players create their characters from scratch with a robust selection of archetypal backgrounds with different origin stories, attributes, skills, traits and lastly belief systems which determine how characters replenish their lost sanity, also presenting unique dialog choices. Stygian will draw the player into a bleak journey from a ruined Arkham to the very depths of the Abyss. "Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones" is a supernatural horror roleplaying video game which takes place in the strange worlds of Howard Philips Lovecraft.
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