Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones – Investigator Prologue Comic and the Future of Stygian

If you’re someone who likes old-timey hardboiled mysteries and cosmic horror, you will probably enjoy playing through Cultic Games’ Lovecraftian RPG Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is an Investigator. And if you’d like to learn more about this particular character archetype, you can now check out this Kickstarter update that features a prologue comic dedicated to the Investigator and briefly talks about the game’s future. Here are the text parts:

Greetings fellow watchers of our beautiful fall!

It’s been a while since we last had a meeting and we sincerely hope that your sanity levels are still faring on minimal standards just like us.

Did we stop working in the meantime? No. Because that would be the sane (and also the boring) thing to do…

Here we present our very first Prologue Comic which explains how the Investigator Archetype first encountered the darker side of our existence while also meeting the Dismal Man. This short story takes place before the Black Day:

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We hope this sheds some light to the backstory of your Investigator characters… Also, please mention which Archetype prologue you’d like to see next in the comments section below!

Lastly, about the fate of our little game of madness… We have fixed and improved what we could and released a much updated version in the form of version 1.5. If you haven’t played the game yet, this may be a good time to visit the gloomy streets of our doomed Arkham.

If you have already done that, enjoyed your visit (in a perverted kind of way of course) and would like to see more of Stygian, it may be a good idea to write a Steam Review these days, because who knows; the forces may indeed be hanging on a curious balance these days and every small thing can help us turn the tide towards our destination. You are the people who started this, so it would come only natural if you also were the ones to move this one step further…

Yet there are many more stories to tell.

Yet there are many more horrors to behold…

Until we meet again.

Team Cultic

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