May 24, 2018

Agony - TheHellMessenger

Hell(o)!

Thank you all for participating our Agony Box Contest! Congratulation to our winners!
The quality of the works sent by you has exceeded our expectations!

All of the winners will receive an email from us, with questions about address, so keep your mailbox open.
Let's all hope to have a live stream with Agony Box - unboxing! :)

You can see all of the works we've received here:
GO TO DROPBOX

WINNERS:

1. Kinga Spyra

2. Zachary Liverseed - Succubus Cosplay

3. DeAnna Davis - Physical 6 ft Agony set, a cosplay of The Red Goddess

4. Mikołaj Dąbrowski

5. Josh Simon

6. Lily Grasso

7. Tyler Yee

8. Ash Jamieson

9. Emil Wynn

10. Sam Martinez

Thank you!
/ Madmind Studio

May 22, 2018

Agony Mode in details - watch the new trailer!

Agony - TheHellMessenger

Welcome back my Devil's Spawn,

As you probably already know, we put a lot of effort not only into the classical Story Mode. Today we brought to you a new trailer, which focuses on Agony Mode that adds additional features to the original game. Watch the video below to learn more about "the procedurally generated Hell". It will wait for you on 29th May, so be prepared :)

https://youtu.be/AS4-uxrdSdo
Hope you'll survive,
The Hell Messenger

May 11, 2018

Agony Box - contest!

Agony - TheHellMessenger

Welcome!

Agony is coming and we have prepared a contest for you to celebrate it – this is your chance to get some exclusive Agony gadgets!

You have 11 days to impress the Red Goddess, starting today!

Suprise her with your creativity!

You can get amazing awards: The trophy for the first place is a secret wooden chest, covered in blood. It's contents remain a secret. What's inside? Will you be the lucky one? Will you open the Chest of Agony? Use any technique to show us your favorite character from Agony! It's up to you to decide in what form you will submit your work. Will it be a sketch of Succubus on a piece of paper? Or perhaps a picture of a Chort? Cosplay of a Martyr with a bag on his head? Be creative! Impress the Red Godess and win a fight for her attention! Become the person chosen by the Red Goddess herself!

RULES:

Accept the regulations by writing a comment under the competition entry on Facebook. Each participant can send only one work, which may be presented on several photos. Permitted file formats: JPG, PNG, TGA, PSD.

Send your work to us: info@madmind-studio.com and remeber to write AGONY BOX in the subject of your message. The e-mail must include your name and surname. The competition ends May 22nd 2018, and the winners selected by Madmind Studio will be announced May 24th. Competition works that will be delivered to us later than May 22nd, will not be taken under consideration.
The competition works which will make the greatest impression on us - Madmind Studio - are going to be awarded!

1st Place:

- The mysterious AGONY BOX, with one invitation from the Goddess herself!
- One of a kind box, full of exclusive materials, and distinctive, personalized Agony items
- Physical version of the game on a chosen platform (Xbox One, PS4 or PC)
- Agony T-Shirt
- Agony Poster signed by Madmind Team
- Physical version of the Agony Soundtrack

2nd Place:

- Physical version of the game on a chosen platform (Xbox One, PS4 or PC)
- Agony T-Shirt
- Agony Poster signed by Madmind Team
- Physical version of the Agony Soundtrack

3rd Place:

- Physical version of the game on a chosen platform (Xbox One, PS4 or PC)
- Agony T-Shirt
- Physical version of the Agony Soundtrack

Bonus rewards (places: 4-10):

- A code for digital version of Agony (Xbox One, PS4 or PC)

Full Contest rules: Click here to read

It's your chance to please your Goddess.

Good luck!
The Hell Messenger

May 9, 2018

Agony has a new story trailer, and it's almost too much to bear

Agony

Agony looks like a charming video game. It's horror and it's not shy about it. Instead of gloomy dark hallways containing jump scare monstrosities, the actual hallways themselves are monstrosities (they pulsate and bleed and generally look unpleasant). And in keeping with Outlast 2's infamous charred baby pit, this new Agony story trailer (embedded below) shows a baby being fed to a big gaping mouth. Scary stuff.

The trailer purports to outline the game's story. Don't get me wrong, I will play this wretched video game and hopefully enjoy it, but the voiceover comes across a bit Black Metal Cats. From what I can gather, the player character has fallen into somewhere bad, presumably hell itself, and there's a goddess they must contend with in order to... survive? Get out? Not sure. It barely matters, because exploring this world is what appeals most to me.

Check out the trailer below. The game releases on May 29, and will feature a story mode as well as an "open challenge system" which generates levels at random. I'm very eager to play it but... am also kinda happy to wait, to be honest.

Apr 26, 2018

Agony Release Date Announced!

Agony - TheHellMessenger

Welcome back Condemned Souls,

You’ve been tortured for countless days, not being able to get out of the Hell. But finally! The salvation day is coming soon, so save your strengths and be prepared for the slightest chance of escaping the horrors of the past and solve the riddle behind the mysterious Red Goddess!

I’m coming back to you straight from the Hellish Grounds to confirm that Agony will see a simultaneous release for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on May 29th, 2018! Just don’t party too hard out there! Remember that Succubus will react to any sound you’ll make, so it would be foolish to give away your position just before the window of freedom opens…

I wouldn’t deserve my title if I couldn’t bring you a treat to ease your pain of waiting. Watch the teaser trailer of Agony and prepare yourself for the worse to come:

https://youtu.be/LZ2gV8Yqgpc
Let the others die,
The Hell Messenger

Apr 22, 2018

The ecstasy of Agony will only be uncut for PC gamers

Agony - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Brock Wilbur)

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Feels like it has been a while since a game was in the news for clashing with the ratings board. Outlast 2 is the last example I can remember where the threat of the dreaded Adults Only (AO) would be handed down to a title, preventing it from releasing on consoles. Well, the Kickstarter funded twisted Hell journey Agony has been leaning into its promise to be the most disturbing game of all time, and the ESRB agreed. Last week, Agony’s developer informed Kickstarter backers that, in order to get an M rating approved, the game has been censored/altered on all platforms. But PC owners will get access to the uncut material via a patch. This is all, uh, tricky to say the least.

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Apr 20, 2018

Agony, the horror game about salacious demons in Hell, has a new release date

Agony

Agony, the game about escaping a Hieronymus Bosch-like vision of Hell while following the calls of a supremely lustful demon (I'm not entirely clear on what that's all about yet), has a new release date of May 29 and a new trailer revealing more of the sights and sounds of its bizarre, super-creepy gameworld.

I'm still iffy on Agony. The teasers have made quite a splash but I have to wonder how well all that nightmarish scrabbling will hold up over the course of a full game, even if it's not a particularly long one. But it would be easy enough to say basically the same thing about, for instance, Amnesia—"Oh, you're touring some guy's mansion, how bad could that be?"—and we all know how that one worked out. My hope is that Agony will deliver in the same way: unexpectedly, brilliantly awful.

Unsurprisingly, Developer Madmind Studio recently announced that it had to tone down some of Agony's content to avoid an AO (Adults Only) rating, which would have prevented its release on console. Those of us on PC will be able to enjoy the Full Monte version, however, as the studio will also release a patch that will undo all the "censorship."