The holidays aren’t quite here yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s too soon to score some free stuff. Styx: Shards of Darkness, the game that “puts the ‘gob’ into goblin” (I have no idea what that means) is free to keep until November 24 as part of GOG’s big Black Friday sale.
Styx: Shards of Darkness is a 2017 stealth-action game about a cynical goblin assassin murdering his way across a highly-vertical fantasy realm, the second in a series that began in 2014. It’s quite good: We called it “a satisfying stealth experience” in our 79% review, which kicks off with this absolute banger of an opening:
“Apparently the jump button in Shards of Darkness isn’t located between my ass cheeks. I know this because its irascible and stunted protagonist—no, antagonist—S…