Styx: Shards of Darkness
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.16/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 7,096
- Critics
- 72 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Score at full price
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 12.2h
- To 100%
- 29.4h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 38
Price and sales
- Sales
- 72 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.39 September 2026
- Sale every
- 44d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 40 now
- Recent reviews
- 82% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
59% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.39. 72 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 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).
More about Styx: Shards of Darkness
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 September 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 441 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 12.2 hours; clearing it takes 29, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Funny game, however mission 7 is causing crashes which apparently has been an issue since the release. Why haven't it been fixed.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I'm not usually someone who enjoys these kinds of games (More of a fast-paced platformer or a story kind of person) but I have found a lot of enjoyment in Styx. It's got some challenge to it and it's especially fun to play in co-op, even if it mostly consists of someone missing practically every jump and accidentally setting off the alarms 24/7 (I apologize to my friend who had to deal with this.) I'm only about 4...
Personally thought this one was worse than the first. The Good: - More stealth maps with a variety of routes and abilities to adapt to your playstyle, great. - The shadows were actually darker in this game, nice. The Bad: - Jumping somehow felt more clunky than the first now that there's more complex geometry. - Could just be a M&kb thing, and so I was missing colored buttons, but I didn't like the look of the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Styx: Shards of Darkness scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/355790/styx-shards-of-darknessReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.