Agony Reviews
Appropriately named for all of the worst reasons...
While the great, disturbing concept of Agony surely is worth a shot, every other aspect isn’t. The graphic is old and outdated, the gameplay feels terrible, the level design is simply bad and the story really isn’t all that great.
Review in Italian | Read full review
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!
Overall the game feels like a lot of ambition but sadly lacks in follow-through.
Agony's vision of Hell is breathtaking but its tedious gameplay and plethora of bugs hold it back.
Stay the Hell away.
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.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Sadistic hell awaits you. Do not enter, if you are austere moralist and be patient. This game is defective, but unique.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Undercooked in all the key places, Agony is just a 10 hour trip through increasingly edgy content that isn't actually fun to play.
Unfortunately, I can't recommend this game as the payout of eye candy isn't worth the time you have to put in slogging through hell behind the eyes of a depressingly slow husk of a dead man.
Unfortunately, Agony stumbles off the starting block and, despite a valiant later effort, is never able to make up lost ground. In this case, a poor first impression irreparably mars the experience, despite measurable improvement in many of the fundamental design principles as the game wears on. The art and audio is striking, but the project may have benefited immensely from less ambition, and the hope is that, should Madmind have a second chance, it will create a more focused and cohesive title. Agony is not great, but it is far from the irredeemable abomination the media has painted it as.
Repetitive and boring Gameplay and Weak artistic and technical design are some of the main reasons to stay away from Agony
Review in Persian | Read full review
Frankly, it’s saving graces are undoubtedly the graphics and its overall atmosphere. Other than that, I wouldn’t say that the game is something you’d get pumped over with the adrenaline of violence and the satisfaction of victory. It’s more of the “I need to get out of here, I need to get out of here!” kind of feeling. And for those of you who are extremely spiritual and religious, then this will probably give you nightmares. This game is definitely not meant for those who have an eidetic memory or who have sleeping problems.
Agony is a sea of bugs and a complete disappointment in almost everything - from plot and levels structure to characters and controls.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Agony is a mess, both in the gameplay and the presentation. Boring game with a high level of meaningless cruelty.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Agony is good, on paper
Agony is not a good game. It feels as if the developers just gave up after such a long development cycle. Filled with bugs, boring and infuriating stealth and chase sequences and repetitive puzzles it's very hard to find anything to enjoy in Agony.
Although Agony offers a vivid, grotesque, and very disturbing glimpse into the bowels of Hell, it doesn't offer much in the way of polished, coherent gameplay.
Agony is the best video game representation of Hell ever created, but it's the only thing the game has got going for itself. With its lack of gameplay direction, poorly explained mechanics and bad pacing, playing Agony can be a hellish experience, and not for the reasons the development team intended.