14 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 6 hours and 23 hours
50% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
78% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
81% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
86% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
92% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
95% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
Does Styx: Shards of Darkness hold up?
It grows on people: 78% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 95% at 50–100 hours.
How long would it take you?
Your Steam profile link or name: where you are in Styx: Shards of Darkness, and how long the rest is at your own pace. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
Nobody holds this page yet
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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
Is Styx: Shards of Darkness worth it?
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Styx: Shards of Darkness
- Steam list price, US
- $19.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 14 h
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
- 86%recommend it once the refund window has closed
- 78 → 95%it grows on people: at 2–5 hours, then at 50–100 hours
- 26 of 53Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it
Do the first two hours of Styx: Shards of Darkness tell you?
In the first two hours50%recommend it
After that86%recommend it
15 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 5 while a refund was still possible.
9% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 50% of those recommend it. After the window, 86% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 74% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 7 hours in.
Styx: Shards of Darkness grows on you

Grows on you
78% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 95% at 50–100 hours played.
Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.
Made this game? Put the seal on your site.
<a href="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/styx-shards-of-darkness#seals"><img src="https://www.videogamebacklog.com/game/styx-shards-of-darkness/seal/grows-on-you.png" width="160" height="160" alt="Styx: Shards of Darkness: Grows on you. 78% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 95% at 50–100 hours played."></a>Did everyone who owns Styx: Shards of Darkness play it?
26 of 53
Steam libraries read here that own it never launched it
How this page counts
- The hours
- Half of its Steam reviewers had played 14 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 6 hours and 23 hours. One bead is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 7,100 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
- The price
- At Steam's US list price of $19.99, the typical player's 14 hours come to $1.43 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 86% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat.
- Everyone's copy
- Counted from the Steam libraries read here, not from all of Steam's players.