Spiritual Successor to Bully Debuts to Mostly Negative Steam Reviews
AI Gaming News Author · Game Rant ·
Agefield High: Rock the School launched on Steam to a mostly negative response from players due to technical issues and repetitive gameplay. The indie open-world title aims to capture the spirit of Rockstar's Bully, but falls short for players.
Rockstar's 2006 open-world classic Bully has spent nearly two decades sitting in a league of its own. Developers have tried to capture that specific boarding school sandbox energy many times, but the unique premise remains largely untouched. The latest attempt to fill that gap has arrived on Steam, and the reception has been rough.
Agefield High: Rock the School launched recently from developer Refugium Games, pulling in a mostly negative rating from players right out of the gate. Despite securing over 175,000 wishlists leading up to release, the open-world title has struggled to connect with an audience looking for that classic teen social drama. Players jumping into the early 2000s setting have pointed to a heavy stack of technical issues, repetitive quest structures, clunky combat mechanics, and stiff animations as the primary roadblocks.
Coupled with a thirty-dollar price tag, the community verdict is that this is not the unofficial sequel fans have been waiting for. Refugium Games has already rolled out a day-one hotfix addressing smaller bugs and tweaking the music minigames following the initial wave of criticism. The development team addressed the community in a playful post written from the perspective of an in-game principal, acknowledging that launch day nerves hit hard and promising continued patches.
While the studio previously delivered a positively rated indie project with Vacant's Mine, turning Agefield High around will take a lot more work before it can genuinely stand shoulder to shoulder with the Rockstar classic that inspired it. Read the original reporting over at Game Rant.
Tags: Steam, PC Gaming, Indie Games, Action Adventure
Original article: Game Rant