With Blades of Greed, the Styx series is expecting a new installment in 2025 on Steam. The first reveal trailer has already been enough for MeinMMO author Ody to continue torturing himself by the nasty goblin.
Styx: Blades of Greed is the third part of a series of stealth games and will be released in the fourth quarter of 2025 for PC on Steam as well as for the consoles PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Once again, the French developer Cyanide Studio is working on Blades of Greed.
You can watch the reveal trailer for Styx: Blades of Greed here:
By the way, you can currently get parts 1 and 2 on Steam for just under €5. The offer is valid until March 13, 2025. However, the two games are relatively often on sale:
Stealth action in a twisted fantasy world
The protagonist of the series is Styx: a nasty goblin who sneaks and slaughters through a fantasy world. The world of Styx plays with familiar fantasy tropes – orcs and goblins are oppressed here by evil humans, elves, and dwarves, which gives the story a fresh twist.
Blades of Greed does not want to completely discard the formula of the first two games, but rather refine it. As Styx, we will again explore large, vertical levels and prefer to sneak past enemies rather than confront them in open combat.
Unlike in the previous installments, this time we do not take on contracts from others, but go our own way. On board his zeppelin, Styx and his crew hunt for quartz – a mysterious energy source that allows us to control enemies like puppets, among other things.
Styx has a variety of tools and abilities to quietly take down opponents. This is also desperately needed, as we are not exactly the born fighter as a goblin. Now we come to the point where I always give up on the games – I am simply not good at sneaking.
A delightfully nasty protagonist
Although the genre is actually not for me, I keep returning to the games. Styx himself is mainly to blame for this: there is no one else I prefer to be insulted by when I die in Shards of Darkness and he comments on my failure with a biting remark.
Styx’s cynical nature and sardonic humor are certainly a matter of taste, but they resonate with me. For this reason, I will probably once again try to wrap my head around the previous games and wait eagerly for Blades of Greed to do the same there.
Styx is one of those protagonists with whom I can be truly evil and feel good about it. If you want to express your dark side in role-playing games, then MeinMMO has just the right list for you: Dragon Age The Veilguard is too nice for you? In these role-playing games, you can be wonderfully evil
