A Streamer’s First Thoughts and Review: “Styx: Blades of Greed”

Nick Sampson | 2/26/2026

Game: Styx: Blades of Greed  Developed by: Cyanide Studio  Published by: Nacon

Thanks to Nacon for the game key.

“The master of stealth is back! Explore the dizzying heights of the Iserian Continent and cunningly eliminate your enemies. Thanks to your Quartz powers, you are freer than ever. Be creative: never has it felt so good to be greedy.” - Steam Synopsis

This game is a stealth action-adventure, with stealth elements similar to the Batman Arkham series and parkour exploration elements you might find in an Uncharted or Tomb Raider style game.

Disclaimer

Everything written here is the writer’s opinions and experiences with the game. Everyone has things they like and dislike about games, and these may not be the same opinions and experiences for everyone. These thoughts are based on my first several hours with the game, the window where most players decide whether they’re sticking with it or moving on.

Styx: Blades of Greed Review

Overall, this game is fun and very much my style. I look forward to playing more down the road. Styx: Blades of Greed is the third game in the Styx series. I am actually surprised this series has never hit my radar until recently. I was offered a key to check the game out and share it with my streaming community. I don’t accept every key or sponsorship I’m offered, but this one immediately caught my attention. I saw this game and immediately needed to know more. My only trepidation was that I hadn’t played any of the previous games in the series.

The game picks up mid-combat, and I have a feeling that whatever is happening in the story has something to do with the previous games. I bonded with the antihero main character fairly quickly. I played just past the main tutorial and prologue. I have very little understanding of the world or the lore. Why was he fighting a party member at the opening? Why are they begrudgingly getting along after the fight? Who is the other person they are working with? Perhaps it is explained much later in the game, or perhaps I need to play the previous games. This is a theme that returns. In the immediate, it gets you right into the action and the story of this game specifically. So if you have played the previous games, you probably understand it all.

The game has a great feel. It is not quite open world, and you do feel a bit trapped, so if you are looking for an Assassin’s Creed Shadows style open world, this isn’t it. Think more along the lines of Uncharted. You have goals and options for which objectives to pursue. It is kind of open, and you do have multiple ways of doing things and working your way around bad guys in a lot of areas. The look and feel of the world is vast and beautiful, with a lot of detail in the graphics, scenery, and rendering. The characters feel physical, perhaps motion captured. I felt immersed. I really enjoyed the feel of the world and the game.

For the most part, the controls were intuitive. Steam suggested I use a controller for the game, so I did. The only part of the controls that felt a bit off was the climbing and jumping, which there is a lot of. If you are jumping, you use one button. But if you are hanging from a ledge and want to “jump” up to the next level, it is a different button. To drop down, it is not the usual down-and-jump or the other button, it is its own button as well. That mechanic could be more unified. Otherwise, the controls were pretty classic and easy to understand.

There are not too many interface menus to cycle through. It was nice and easy to navigate to your powers, abilities, and crafting. They were organized well, and from the get-go, the powers and what they do when leveling up are fairly easy to understand.

At the very beginning of the game, there is an encounter designed to explain how to use the controls and move around. For the most part, the tutorial and explanation of controls are well done. I had a slight hiccup when it came to combat, I did not fully understand the combat mechanic until after the third time dying. While I should be upset about that and how combat works, it also emphasizes that this game is a stealth game. Styx is not a big, toe-to-toe combat fighter.

As a Streamer

This game, I think, can be really good for streamers who enjoy classic adventure style content. The humor of the character, along with the stress of “will you get caught and how will you deal with being caught?” is a great entertaining piece of the game. The game gives plenty of space for a streamer to talk with their chat. The cutscenes are not too long and do not take over the stream, forcing you to either talk over them or sit there for long periods of time. If you are a streamer looking for a game with constant action, this may not be the game you want to play. It is designed to be slower and more methodical, as you have to watch for pathing and openings to stealth through. If you want to play this game with more action, you certainly can just fight your way through and skip the stealth, even if that is not the intent of the game’s design. As a streamer, if you feel you need action, this could be an option, either for the action itself or for the added challenge.

For those who are not streamers, if I were to play this off stream, I would enjoy the goal of methodically pacing through the game to see if I can do the least amount of combat possible. Finding hidden paths, secret rooms, and hidden locations feels rewarding. I feel this is the kind of game where I can lose hours offline without the stresses of the world. This is 100 percent my kind of game to just play for the sake of playing.

Overall, this is a game I would play again. I want to see more of the world and the characters. I may even go back and try to play the previous games, or at least watch a synopsis so I can better understand the references to previous adventures, understand what is going on, who the characters are, and their relationships with each other. It is a fun game, and if you like action games, stealth games, and the genre of fantasy. This so far seems to have all of that and more. Find the game on Steam - Here -