Agony Reviews

Agony is ranked in the 2nd percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Jun 4, 2018

We've seen plenty of stalker horror games in the past (Amnesia being perhaps the best example), but a combination of bugs and absolutely dismal guidance from the game makes this one a very painful grind to work through, filled with trial and error deaths and far too few checkpoints for this kind of gameplay.

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Ofisil
Top Critic
2 / 10
Jun 4, 2018

If Hell does exist, then it's surely the one depicted in Agony, because one can get used to pain and suffering, but these can't compete with utter and complete boredom. Madmind Studios' rushed, "controversial" cash-grab, is nothing more than one of the contenders for the worst release of 2018, and one of the worst survival horror games ever, full stop.

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3.5 / 10.0
Jun 11, 2018

Agony is a mess, both in the gameplay and the presentation. Boring game with a high level of meaningless cruelty.

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Digiato
Reza Mirzaei
Top Critic
30 / 100
Jul 10, 2018

Agony is a ridiculous and incomplete effort to visualize a new inferno. it almost seems like that developers have been so laser focused on making disgusting environments that they completely forgot about gameplay and even playability.

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GameGrin
Top Critic
4 / 10.0
Jun 20, 2018

Undercooked in all the key places, Agony is just a 10 hour trip through increasingly edgy content that isn't actually fun to play.

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3.5 / 10.0
Jun 2, 2018

Some say money is the root of all evil. Madmind Studio appears to be one such video game developer that reached too high when creating Agony. This extremely graphic and sexual game set out to shock players the day its initial Kickstarter campaign launched. The most shocking thing is how dull Agony is.

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6.5 / 10.0
Jul 3, 2018

Sadistic hell awaits you. Do not enter, if you are austere moralist and be patient. This game is defective, but unique.

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Gareth Fidler
Top Critic
3 / 10
Jul 27, 2018

Madmind Studios has successfully created the definitive version of videogame Hell: humdrum, uninspiring gameplay, frustrating level design, stuttering frame-rates, soft locks and crashes galore, unpolished textures, ugly character modelling, sudden inexplicable deaths, and irritating glitches. It is a painful experience from beginning to end, with the only real highlight being the uninstall. An absolute stinker; Agony is most definitely Hell!

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5 / 10.0
May 31, 2018

Agony is a mediocre survival horror: the dull gameplay and many controversial game design choices are the two responsibles of an unexpected result.

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CGMagazine
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Jun 1, 2018

Agony is a game that is better left in the deepest part of hell, or at very least, the discount bin.

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4 / 10.0
Jun 4, 2018

Agony has a solid foundation, but Madmind fails to build on it in any meaningful ways. Some gorgeous visuals are bogged down by poor game design and tasteless sexual content.

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GameSpace
Sovrath
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Jun 5, 2018

If you are predisposed toward the infernal if you enjoy the gory and the journey this game might be for you. If you are looking for solid gameplay and perpetual darkness is an issue, then you will see more devils than this vast hell can hold.

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3.5 / 10.0
Jun 5, 2018

Agony is one of the biggest disappointments this year. Its excellent atmosphere is butchered by frustrating and repetitive gameplay and an abysmal technical performance

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1.5 / 10.0
May 31, 2018

In reality, poorly developed mechanics are your enemies in Agony, not the demons you're supposed to be afraid of.

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4 / 10
Jul 12, 2018

Agony's vision of Hell is breathtaking but its tedious gameplay and plethora of bugs hold it back.

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GRYOnline.pl
Filip Grabski
Top Critic
5 / 10.0
May 31, 2018

The vision of hell introduced in Agony rivals the excellent final level of Painkiller. Unfortunately the game set in this wonderfully warped world isn’t very interesting. For each upside there's at least one serious shortcoming. This controversial and ambitious game turned out to be dull and rather boring.

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1.5 / 5.0
May 29, 2018

All of the problems above spoil what little Agony does right, and as a result, it's hard to recommend Agony to anyone. The only people who should consider Agony are people that want a truly hardcore, even at the expense of enjoyment, survival horror game that will put your patience to the test.

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4 / 10
Jun 2, 2018

Bellow its subversive appearance, Agony is just a mediocre title. It fails to capture the very essence of a successful survival horror game : an experience that combine a terrifying setting and interesting gameplay mechanics.

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May 31, 2018

Agony. It's a pretty fitting name.

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52 / 100
Jun 5, 2018

Artistically inspired, but also marginal horror trip through hell with boring tasks and technical problems.

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