


As a result, you'll find that having your character run away from battle or taking drugs or drinking alcohol is often preferable to fighting against hopeless odds and using up precious ammunition or spiraling into insanity. And in this case survival doesn't only mean not dying, but also not succumbing entirely to madness. In Stygian you don't play a hero, but at best a somewhat capable person who has to survive unimaginable horrors. Stygian is a horror RPG based on the pen and paper RPG Call of Cthulu, which in turn is inspired by the works of horror writer H. That was the beginning of my aristocratic character's journey into Stygian. Turned out of my ancestral home by a mob of cultists and gangsters, and with only loyal butler Werner helping me, I wake up from a horrible dream in a seedy tavern in the city of Arkham.
