Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones

June 3, 2016

Stygian Launches Kickstarter Campaign

Author H.P Lovecraft, Kickstarter, pc, Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones 0

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, a supernatural horror role-playing video game which takes place in the strange worlds of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, has launched its Kickstarter campaign. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones 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 set to have a number of features, including: A hand drawn 2D world which reflects the mood of Lovecraft and the pulp era of horror. Quests and storylines which capture the iconic themes of Lovecraft. Take part in your favorite horror stories and shape their outcome according to your role-playing style. Weirdest of the companions will accompany you in your accursed journey. Lonely antediluvian of “The Outsider”, a dead WW1 soldier reanimated in the hands of “Herbert West”, a psychic narcissistic cat from Ulthar and more will be among your eccentric cast of companions. Sanity and the mental state of the character will have influence on the dialog options. Mental conditions create benefits

May 15, 2016

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones Gets Steam Greenlight

Author HP Lovecraft, Indie Dev, pc, rpg, Steam Greenlight, Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones 1

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, a supernatural horror role-playing video game which takes place in the strange worlds of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, has launched its Steam Greenlight campaign. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones will draw the player into a bleak journey from a ruined Arkham to the very depths of the Abyss. The game has also gotten a new trailer, seen below. According to the developers, gameplay experience promises a mix of rich role-playing and turn based tactical combat in an authentic illustrative 2D graphical style. 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 narrative of the game is strongly connected to the works of H. P. Lovecraft. 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