Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
Skip · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 14.1h
- Value
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews
- 66% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2021. It has been discounted 58 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. On the same math Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG ($17.99, scores 40) and Morbid: The Seven Acolytes ($24.99, scores 27) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
81 on Metacritic, 66 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 14.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 627 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
45% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 14.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 18:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game has it's good and bad. I am a fan of Lovecraftian media, though rarely are they very good, it's a hard theme to convey. I thought this did a pretty good job of it for the most part. I love the art style and the story is solid enough until the end. The game has some control issues occasionally, but nothing horrible, and although I see others stating they encountered game breaking bugs, I didn't encounter...
Game comes with deep lore, and interesting. Crappy ending though. also boring in a way. Instead go pay the new Stygian.
ANOTHER MEDIOCRE GAME BUILT ON LOVECRAFT'S BONES Folks, if you're looking for a Lovecraftian Horror CRPG - keep looking. This game is a classic example of a great concept completely ruined by poor execution. THE MAIN ISSUE - IT'S BORING AS HELL I honestly gave this game 3 or 4 chances. I somehow sank 36 hours into it, and every single time, I ended up dropping it halfway through. The turn-based combat has almost no...
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Cite this score
Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones scores 17/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/779290/stygian-reign-of-the-old-onesReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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