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‘Agony’ Spin-off Game ‘Succubus’ Announced
Despite its lukewarm success, Agony is now getting a franchise of sorts. In a new YouTube video (which you can see below), Madmind Studio is in the process of developing Succubus, a spin-off of Agony. The game will follow the Succubus that appeared in Agony in her quest for revenge over Baphomet.
Unlike in Agony, however, Succubus will involve the player being on the offensive. Rather than relying on the power of possession, Succubus will feature combat using “weapons and pyrokinesis”, an expandable skill tree, boss fights and “a system of weapons and armor that affect a player’s statistics”.
Succubus takes place after the events of Agony, where Nimrod (aka the player from the original game) has taken control of Hell, and has chosen Succubus as his queen. However, the life of royalty doesn’t suit the Succubus, who has instead chosen to live in the wilderness of Hell. It’s in the wilderness of Hell that the Succubus happens upon Baphomet, who with his army, are planning to usurp Nimrod. Unfortunately, the Succubus is caught, betrayed and humiliated by Baphomet. Revenge is now in order.
The game has no release range, other than it coming to Steam.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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