Focus Home Interactive and Cyanide Studios has announced a sequel to the popular fantasy stealth game, Styx: Master of Shadows. Titled Styx: Shards of Darkness, it promises to expand and improve upon the mechanics of stealth from the original Styx by means of a bigger budget and the new Unreal 4 game engine. Movement will be smoother and assassinations more refined. Never explored locations and new enemies will also be present in the game. Focus and Cyanide assures us that Shards of Darkness will improve the best features of Master of Shadows while also adding plenty of new gameplay features.
Styx: Shards of Darkness has been in development for six months already and is scheduled to be released sometime in 2016. It will come to Xbox One, Windows, and PS4.
Source: Focus Home Interactive
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