
In your quest, you’ll use the haunted violin of Erich Zann to lure a fiendish deity and convince the poor wretched protagonist of “The Outsider” to join your party among many others. The narrative of the game is strongly connected to the works of H. In Stygian, you’ll be able to create your character from scratch with a robust selection of archetypal backgrounds with different origin stories, attributes, skills, traits, and lastly, belief systems which determine how your character replenishes his lost sanity, also presenting unique dialog choices. The gameplay experience promises a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat in an authentic illustrative 2D graphical style. 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 role-playing video game which takes place in the strange worlds of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Help the Old Ones to rise again by backing the game on Steam Greenlight. And believe me it really does take a patient, seasoned, and articulate gamer to fully appreciate the old school style of gameplay, but anyone with a pair of eyes can appreciate those beautiful cel-shaded visuals.įeaturing a story filled with classic elements from Lovecraft’s stories including the ancient deities known as the Old Ones, the music composer Erich Zann, and the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. But this one will appeal to the hardcore gamer crowd who still play and enjoy turn-based RPGs. So yeah, we’re getting another Lovecraft game to go along with the several million that are already in production.
