Pyotr Sych
Plumber, the hero
Perk: Pipeline: crawls through vents.
A tired fatalist who measures everything in clogs.
Last Styx
Turn-based space horror. One plumber. One plunger.
Seventy-two hours ago something went very wrong on mining station Styx-9. Sych was busy fixing a clog.
PC (Windows). Steam page in early 2027, release planned for autumn 2027.
A disaster with a corporate smile
Styx-9 is a GalaktoNedra mining station on a nameless asteroid past Pluto, fourteen months from the nearest burger joint. The miners opened a cavity with a living membrane that rewrites the DNA of everything it touches. Three days later the station is a meat anthill. The corporation responded quickly: it cut downtime bonuses.
You play Pyotr Sych, plumber third class. He survived because he was inside the waste disposal unit when it happened. He is not a soldier or a scientist, but he knows every pipe on the station, and that is his main weapon. Gather the survivors, clear the station sector by sector across 20 levels, and decide what to do about the thing sitting in its core.
The mutants remember pieces of their old lives. The cook still cooks, the guard still asks for your pass, the accountant still counts. The survivors call them the Kin.
20 levels in four acts, nine survivors to recruit, four endings and one of them is a secret. Black humor first, horror second, paperwork always.
How you survive
Tactical turn-based combat with a rotating isometric camera, destructible cover and fog of war.
Action points
Each unit has 4 per turn for moving, shooting, reloading and using things.
Noise
Every shot and kicked door raises the sector alarm. At 100% reinforcements crawl out of the vents.
Sanity
Each unit has its own. Horrors drain it, and at zero a unit panics or shoots its own.
Pipes and vents
Only Sych can crawl through the station plumbing and get around the enemy.
Survivors
Rescued staff join the squad with their own perks or go to the shelter and give passive bonuses.
Infection
Wounded units build it up. At 100% they become Kin, permanently.
The squad
Personnel files of the staff who are still technically on shift.
Lyusya Chernova
Storekeeper
Perk: Inventory: spots hidden stashes.
A bureaucrat even in hell.
Arkady Ven
Doctor
Perk: Field surgery: heals and amputates.
Ironic. Keeps something to himself.
Vika Zaitseva
Sniper and geologist
Perk: Deep survey: shoots through walls.
Quiet, with a dry sense of humor.
Miron Bogdanovich
Flamethrower, agronomist
Perk: Fire weeding: damage in a cone.
A kind old man who loves his tomato Valera.
Zhora Avanesyan
Support, bartender
Perk: House cocktail: firebombs and sanity.
Jokes so he does not scream.
Inga Larsen
Scientist
Perk: Vivisection: +25% crit for the squad.
Cold, and trying to make amends.
Timur Galiev
Engineer, comms tech
Perk: Hack: reprograms turrets and drones.
Nervous. Checks everything against a ticket.
Stepanych
Heavy, shift foreman
Perk: Breaker: smashes through walls.
Unflappable veteran who dreams of retiring.
Scroll sideways to see the whole squad.
Your former colleagues
The Kin still turn up for work. Some of them still know your name.
Crawler
Used to be: a janitor
Weak to: anything. They win by numbers.
Hush
Used to be: a dispatcher
Weak to: stealth. Blind, it follows noise.
Drip
Used to be: a patient
Weak to: melee. Spits infection three tiles away.
Sleeper
Used to be: a miner in a sleep pod
Weak to: not being woken up.
Gardener
Used to be: a greenhouse worker
Weak to: fire, or watering.
Lab Tech
Used to be: a researcher
Weak to: a shot into the "corpse".
Tunneler
Used to be: a face miner
Weak to: suppressing fire.
Unclaimed
Used to be: a body in the morgue
Weak to: never looking away.
Three more were found. HR has classified them until release.
The station
Concept art of the levels. Click to look closer.
The graphic novel
Twenty chapters, one per level, five pages each. Corporate cheer on top of a catastrophe.
Chapter 1 is out: the shift is not over, and BARSIK writes the first fine.
GalaktoNedra cares!
Miner Grisha Glubin reminds you: a smile is part of the uniform.
GalaktoNedra is not responsible for mutations, loss of limbs, loss of self or unscheduled singing. Coupons are not exchangeable for money, evacuation or sympathy. A smile is deducted from wages if not worn. GalaktoNedra is a fictional corporation. Any resemblance to your employer is a coincidence, probably.
Press and contacts
- Title
- Last Styx
- Russian title
- Последний на «Стиксе»
- Genre
- Turn-based tactics, horror, black comedy
- Platform
- PC (Windows)
- Status
- In development
- Steam page
- Early 2027
- Release
- Autumn 2027 (planned)
- Languages
- English, Russian
- Developer
- Independent, solo
Write to us
Press and streamers
press@laststyx.com
Everything else
hello@laststyx.com