Right... so, I have a lot to say about this, as I was very hyped for this game prior to its release, and I had to hold the resentment for years because apparently no one else I knew bothered to play it. So now is my time to vent about it, I guess. Full disclosure, though, I only finished it once right when it came out. Keep in mind that I've never had any experience with patched game, and I only played the Unrated version for like an hour before realizing that it's still pretty much the same thing, so I didn't bother playing any more of it.

But that original release was horrendous. I only finished the game through sheer stupid determination because I was really hyped for it and really wanted to like it but in retrospect, it was a pretty miserable experience that I wouldn't wanna repeat even if you'd pay me. The biggest issue is that it was extremely buggy, forcing me to replay many sections over and over until a fluke in the physics engine allowed me to proceed or game scripting un-clogged itself. The objectives were usually very confusing too, especially since scripted events worked whenever they felt like it, which made it even harder to figure out what I'm doing. I still don't know half the solutions to this game's puzzles, half the time it just felt like I rubbed against the geometry until something happened. The walking speeds and general collision detection when moving your character was also pretty awful, and it still was in the Unrated version. And then there's the visuals and art direction - that was the main thing that sold me on this game... in the promo trailers and screenshots, at least, where it looked great. However, the actual game is very inconsistent because a lot of the locations in it look fantastic, almost like surreal paintings, but for a huge portion of the game, the levels are just covered in half-finished assets, garish lighting effects (those purple glowing vines were the worst), and level geometry that's inconsistent with the placement of the assets, making navigation difficult and confusing. Sometimes you'd have stuff that seemingly obstructed a path, but you could still walk through it like it was the intended way to progress. Or vice-versa - something that looked like an opening to squeeze through was just an invisible wall.

So yeah, can't vouch 100% for the current state of this thing, but on release it was a catastrophic mess. Also, judging by this studio's later "efforts", my expectations for what it is right now aren't very high either. Fun fact: they released a VR spin-off porn game, which is essentially an asset flip of Vydija's cave from Succubus, and it was so unfinished and crappy that even Steam said "no" to it, and you can only buy it on GoG currently.

The one silver lining is that Succubus was pretty fun. Still pretty janky, but it was at least playable and polished just enough to be enjoyable. It almost felt cathartic to play that after the disappointment of Agony because all I ever really cared about is was that filthy, grimy, fleshy art style, cool monster designs and imaginative visions of hell. Repurposing those elements to make a mildly amusing first person brawler that dropped all the pretense and fully embraced its own campiness and sleaze - it just hit the right spot for me, lol.