Styx: Shards of Darkness
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.39. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1 GB, AMD Radeon R7 260X / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.39. 71 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $1.39 at 93 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition ($59.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Assassin's Creed Mirage ($14.99, scores 43).
Critics scored it 72. Players sit 11 points higher at 83 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 426 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
60% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
34 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Styx: Shards of Darkness scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/355790/styx-shards-of-darknessThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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