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Succubus is a game which is deeply mediocre in every way. Its action is just passable. Its story telling is nothing spectacular. Level design is not absolutely boring. However, greatest failing of this game it is that it tries to be shocking, obscene and filled with gore, but it comes off as childish. Nothing in this game is shocking and it plays as safe as it can with controversy.

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This game studio loves to try out new genres. It started with a walking simulator. Then it created an action game. Now it is working on strategy game. This results in them not specializing in anything and being good at anything. Agony AT LEAST was original. It tried to be brave and was for its time. However now Succubus comes as quaint. Game tries to be repulsive and obscene, but it fails to shock players at all. All what it can do is to depict orgies and old men being hentai or demon ♥♥♥♥♥♥. Like, it is all what it is actually is trying to do. All the assets, all the ideas were already done in Agony. Nothing in this game is actually shocking, because gore is excessively re-used as a background ornaments. It never tries to depict some terrible things, it only talks about obsene things. However, real life has a lot more messed up ♥♥♥♥ than we see in this game. At one point game tries to portray rape. I thought at that moment game is finally getting serious and showing something interesting. However, our strong woman defends herself and then is saved by her hero. Like, why? You try to shock your audience with gore and sex only to chicken out at trying to portray the slightest controversial thing? Your protagonist is always in control, always dominant, always get what she wants and is never screwed. Yet, developers put self-rightous line about censorship and how brave they are. If anything, they are delusional about their game and how unimpactful it is.

This game could be best described as exceedingly mediocre. Gameplay could be a filler for something far more interesting like story or sexuality. However, there is none of that. Only gameplay which is done in a very lazy and rough way which is stretched very thin.

Cheap Difficulty
• The difficulty settings in this game are busted. Early arenas are never meant to take that much time. Game is designed around 5-10 minute levels. Except on extreme difficulty level, health and damage is so cranked up on enemies that nothing you do causes any damage to them. Simple levels are being dragged down mercilessly for 30 minutes straight with no checkpoints in between. That means that you can spend hours before beating a single 5 minute long arena. Game fails to offer anything more than just cranking up health and damage of enemies thus any higher difficulty levels are just making tedious game even more tedious.
  
  Repetition
  
• Combat itself is very repetitious and lacks any attention to detail. I just spliced a person in half with a hammer... Animations make gore look silly. Gameplay is designed around spamming animation kills over and over again due to brief window of invincibility and health regeneration. To make matters even more repetitious, your character will get stuck on few very specific lines, sometimes it feels that you can hear: "You die little too quick for my taste, buddy" ten times in a row.
  
  Pointless Systems
  
• Throwing enemies into environmental hazzards might be cool thing to do, but in practice it varies from impossible to impractical. You see, shift + attack combo barely works in this game. You cannot push enemies naturally into traps. You have to rely on E - kick, but that makes you stationary and puts you in melee range which causes you just to lose health. Then were are force push, but it requires a lot of mana and time to charge up and then you need to lure enemy to you, dash around them and then force push them into the trap. Most of the time they will not be pushed predictably where you want them to be. In general, spells are very weak and next to useless. The most use you can get from spells are in unintentional uses. Shield is useful against bosses and their charges. Firewall is useful because it staggers normal enemies. This leaves combat just all about taking best AoE weapon and spamming damage or best single target weapon and 1 hit + sync kill throughout entire game. Gameplay is very bland and repetitious and elements which developer tried to put into this game simply doesn't work as intended.

Story is non-existent. For the most part it is just mission after mission with little context. The little story there is, it is often self-contradictory or downright silly.

This screenshot represents how serious developers are in portraying realistic world. This is one of the first areas in this game. It doesn't look like hell, more like resort.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3093221159

Low effort story telling
• You have a beef with one main demon. He beats you. Then your shadowy friend releases you supposedly. You then go for super weapon to kill him. You get generic weapon not worth using and armor too for some reason which you just replace. Then you proceed to go and kill him for reasons not clearly stated. It is revealed then that Nimrod made a deal with a devil and hell is coming to get him for his sins. Like WTF? It is hell! Everyone is doing that! Story is bare bones and even when it tries to say something, it is just doesn't make any sense. Even the ending is equally nonsensical. Baphomet resurrects after being killed in order to kill Nimrod and then they both die in an unclear way. Also, why Nimrod is just chilling in his own castle, waiting for his princess to rescue him while it is conquered by the Baphomet? There is very little story telling in this game and what is there is very amateurish.
  
  High school level argumentation
  
• Game also tends to insert some theological philosophy against God or religion. However, it comes as arguments you would expect from a first year philosophy student. Arguments which are raised by everyone and there are established FAQ to them. Game asks questions, if it is wrong to do, why it feels so good? Why we can disobey God and then get punished for it. It keeps on talking how men knows nothing outside his own self benefit which by its face value is false. Another argument made by the game is that God is hypocritical, because angels are very physically attractive and thus God is a pervert who just like to watch nice people. Game tries to insert philosophy, but it comes as amateurish and low effort.

Studio had inserted self-righteous shots in game how everyone trying to censor things are weak and small minded. They had a run in with authorities before. However, it was due to them not offering properly labeled version. Then it gets that resolved, their further game is full of re-used, poorly animated and endlessly re-used assets. It thinks it is shocking and obscene, but in reality it is as safe as it can be. There are more obscene adult games on Steam. There are certainly more disturbing games out there. Even Hatred is far more contraversial and messed up. This however plays as safe as it can. You are a strong woman on a quest to get your man and to avenge for someone screwing with you. Throughout entire campaign it only once tried to portray rape which by comparison in hell is just a kinky play. Yet, your strong woman defends itself and then is saved by her hero immediately. Game is afraid of contraversy and plays safe while developers delude themselves on being brave.

It further doesn't help that developers have no clue of what hell is. They based it on Christian parody of hell rather than occult texts or more unbias views like from Greek mythology. It tries to make even greater parody of something which in itself is a parody. This is why they fail to establish any sense of connection with their audience. It is sad that they had created entire game around Succubi and their understanding of what it is supposed to be is extremely questionable. Deciding to cast 40 year, heavy smoker for voice actress and make their own characters ugly. This game is a misguided, low effort game which fails to be unique on its own and it fails even in what it tries to do - to portray literal hell.

I think that this screenshot represents them the best. Despite trying to be as shocking and obscene as possible, they introduced Holy Mary statues everywhere. Developers try to act edgy, but deep down inside, they are just fearful of God.
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3093223515

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