10 Phenomenal 2017 Video Games You're Already Missing Out On
3. Styx: Shards Of Darkness
Grab it if you like: Tenchu, Thief, old-school 2000s-era stealth.
Hugging shadows, watching A.I. patrols, pulling off stealth kill animations and forever remaining a ghost in the night, Styx is pretty much the only game maintaining that old-school approach to stealth in video games.
Whilst the genre saw a huge boom after Metal Gear Solid's popularity proved we rather like planning how to take out entire expanses of goons without being seen, Styx's take mythologises the otherwise real-world setup of many stealth-action games, letting you play as the tiny goblin, before deploying scores of magic abilities instead of silenced pistols.
Turning invisible, using clones for distractions or chain-kills, throwing up in a guard's grog to poison them - there's a macabre, self-aware sense of humour and 'back-to-basics' stealth gameplay that, if you've missed how the genre used to function before Hitman and Metal Gear Solid V, is well worth checking out.