New gameplay for Stygian: Outer Gods showcases survival, madness, and a surprising amount of action

Fulqrum Publishing and Misterial Games’ Stygian: Outer Gods is looking scarily good, loading up on survival horror with a Lovecraft twist.

This is madness

While there are a couple of Lovecraft-inspired games out there that eschew the traditional ‘madness’ elements of the classic tales, but Stygian: Outer Gods isn’t one of them. From Fulqrum Publishing and Misterial Games, the upcoming survival horror title has a brand new trailer that’s loaded with Eldritch terrors, things that may or may not actually be there, and a surprising amount of action.

We had figured that the game would be more survival than anything else, but Stygian: Outer Gods instead can lock and load, letting players take the fight to the creeps from the deep with firearms and melee combat alike.

Stygian: Outer Gods is a survival horror game that pulls you into a hostile world that challenges your very existence. Unravel a thousand-year-old mystery, risk your sanity and face the schemes of the Outer Gods with your skills. Every bullet and every decision counts now, are you up to the task? 

Set in the universe of Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones, the game lets players witness and influence the events preceding the Black Day. Immerse yourself in a unique world full of dangers, unexplored dark corners, and looming evil beyond mortal comprehension.

You will accompany an enigmatic occultist researcher, Victoria, on an expedition to the foggy settlement of Kingsport, once a prosperous harbor town, now decrepit and almost abandoned. Hoping to find your missing father, you are shipwrecked and soon encounter the nightmares that have haunted this place for centuries. Will you be able to find your way out, keep your sanity, and prevent the coming of the ancient Outer Gods, or maybe being insane is the key to salvation?

Fulqrum Publishing press release

Stages of terror

If you liked what you saw there, then you’re going to love that you won’t have to wait all that long to actually play Stygian: Outer Gods. The title will be following up on its Steam Next Fest demo by launching into a beta test, which will be free to get in on. Look for that to start tomorrow, April 4th, and run through the 7th.

The test will include the previously seen (in the demo) introductory section, and will task players with getting into “the mysterious Brasko family mansion”, according to Fulqrum. But don’t worry, because this isn’t a rehash. The test’s version of the area will be “greatly expanded” from what you might have seen in that Next Fest demo, so you’ll get a heartier taste of what Kingsport will be like.

But wait there’s more, as that’s just the lead-in for Stygian: Outer Gods‘ Early Access launch. Players can look for that to kick on the PC this month, on April 14th. Console players will have to wait a little while longer to try their hand at surviving the game’s horrors however, as the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S versions of the title won’t be launching until the full retail PC edition arrives, some time down the road.