

An occultist could benefit from being a bit touched in the head, or you might be a nihilistic gangster and gain sanity from being skeptical and matter-of-fact.

When creating a character there are lots of interesting options, from your background to your beliefs, many of which affect your conversation options, and what benefit you'll get from choosing particular courses of action. I've no particular interest in Lovecraft even when he's not being a massive racist, so I was a little surprised how quickly this one pulled me in. I'll have a trailer and some thoughts, too, having played it for a wee while. Pursue your own goals in these end times: salvation, vendetta, or perhaps something darker." I'll have something darker, please.

"The struggle in Stygian is not to save the world," says its Steam page, "for that battle is lost already. A bit like living in England, then.Īlthough the whole Cthulhu business isn't a particularly uncommon inspiration for games these days, this one is definitely going for something a bit more complex than simply fighting off gibbering robey boys and tentaculats. Stygian: Reign Of The Old Ones is an RPG set in Arkham, the big Cthulhu mythos town, after it's been zapped into another dimension of unending horror and madness from which none can hope to escape.
