Styx: Shards of Darkness similar games & best alternatives

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Styx: Shards of Darkness

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One • 2017

Should you play it?

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 works

  • Challenging and rewarding stealth gameplay
  • Large, vertical, and varied level design
  • Humorous and charismatic protagonist
  • Cooperative multiplayer mode
  • Skill trees and crafting add depth

Things to keep in mind

  • Some ai and animation bugs
  • Repetition of levels in second half
  • Combat is weak and frustrating
  • Story is weaker and ends abruptly
  • Climbing and jumping controls can be imprecise

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Outward Definitive Edition

  • Aragami 2

  • Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • No Rest for the Wicked

  • Risen 3 - Titan Lords

More violent

Games that feels like Styx: Shards of Darkness but with more combat and destruction

  • Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

  • ELDEN RING

  • Borderlands 3

  • Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

  • Hellsweeper VR

  • Dying Light: The Beast

Less social

Games that feels like Styx: Shards of Darkness but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Styx: Master of Shadows

  • Steel Seed

  • Thief

  • Divinity II: Developer's Cut

  • Bleak Faith: Forsaken

  • Lies of P

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Styx: Master of Shadows

  • Game of Thrones

  • Of Orcs And Men

  • Aarklash: Legacy

  • Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator

Similarity map

How to compare these games

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Styx: Shards of Darkness. These titles are not in What to play next.

Styx: Shards of Darkness: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Violence, Leadership.

Last update: 21/08/2026