Agony
Top 5 Worst Games of Q2 2018
Agony is a terrible video game, and not in the way the developers intended it to be. Rather than being dark, edgy, and devilishly frightening, it’s a video gaming hell for committing very different sorts of sins. As we noted in our review, the level design is horrendous, the AI dim-witted, and the challenge often stupidly unfair. About all Agony does well is depict a morbid satanic environment, and even then, its attempt to shock with nudity, violence, and brutality often feels a little vulgar rather than scary.
It’s such a shame because Agony’s premise had plenty of potential. Sadly, it’s just no fun to play at all, with survival-horror gameplay that quickly degenerates into the tedious, long before the intensity that it tries to tee-up ever feels compelling. And all this before we’ve even got to the technical issues… Agony’s performance is mediocre at best, and even when the framerate isn’t chugging, its aesthetic is actually poor by design —everything sort of melds into one, which makes it rather difficult to tell what’s going on or where to locate key items.
If you’re after a quality first-person survival horror game, look to Outlast or Resident Evil 7 and basically every other title in the genre before Agony.
