Styx: Shards of Darkness PC Performance Review

Graphical Options and Settings

To say the least the grpahical options menu for Styx: Shards of Darkness is barebones, offering only a handful of graphical settings and minimal detail on how each setting affects game performance.

The game does offer four graphical presets, called Weak, Average, High and Epic, with the ption to also turn V-Sync on or off and play the game at fullscreen, windowed or fullscreen windowed modes.

Below is a list of all of Styx: Shards of Darkness’ graphical options:

– Distance of Display (draw distance) – Weak, Average, High and Epic 

– Anti-Aliasing – Weak, Average, High and Epic

– Post Processing – Weak, Average, High and Epic 

– Shadows – Weak, Average, High and Epic 

– Textures – Weak, Average, High and Epic 

– Effects – Weak, Average, High and Epic 

– Brightness – slider

It would have been nice to see some extra detail in this graphical options menu, such as anisotropic filtering options and further details on what type of AA the game uses at each graphical setting.