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Agents of Mayhem
Developer Deep Silver Volition
Agents of Mayhem is a 2017 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by Deep Silver. It was released for the PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in August 2017. The game's themes are based on Saturday-morning cartoons and superhero films, and its story takes place in a parallel universe to Volition's Saints Row series, incorporating several plot and character crossovers. Agents of Mayhem received… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
237 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
52
Mixed
91 positive · 85 negative
95% range 44–59%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 91 | 85 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 16 | 12 | 27 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,621 of 2,734 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
54% recommend · 98 yes, 82 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 180 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (2,858 of 4,902 positive).
Some players find it a fun, unique game if not compared to Saints Row. [1][2][3] Others criticize it for repetitive missions and lack of depth. [4][5][6] Technical issues like crashes and bugs are also commonly reported. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [15]
As a die hard saints row fan it pains me to see the state of the franchise at the end of 2025. I have played all of them and yes even that terrible reboot one. But this one I actually never played until now. On my journey through playing all my games, It was finally time to visit this and see how I felt about it. Honestly I am very conflicted. There were parts of the game I enjoyed like the three character rotation …
- [5]
I genuinely loved this game for the first few hours (gameplay, personality, style). But then the massive repetitiveness set in, which turned love to like (literally endless cycles). Then the progress losing bugs and glitches started to really irritate turning like into meh (hanging, unreachable quest objectives, enemies in walls). Unfortunately, I dismissed the reviews that mentioned bugs and glitches. I am stubborn …
- [1]
let´s start by saying that i´m furious about how people treated this game. everyone cried and b*tched about this game so hard that i never even tried the game out, 9 years later here i am playing this game and in my surprise, the game is very good. the world is gorgeous, character designs are nice, gameplay is fluid, mechanics are fun, the overall setting of the game is very unique. is it Saints Row? No. but is it a …
- [4]
I think this was a fun open world 3rd person shooter. Each character is joy to play with in terms of how the characters move and play. The missions got really repetitive. The game didn't really feel like saint's row, which this game was a spinoff from. And now the company is shut down. So fun, but a mixed bag.
- [2]
If you're expecting something like Saints Row, I wouldn't recommend it. However, if you approach it without seeing it as a spin-off of the series, it’s a decent choice for a casual playthrough—especially during a sale.
Summarised from 34 of the 243 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
54% of the 180 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Agents of Mayhem. The complaint that keeps coming up: missions become very repetitive. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Agents of Mayhem received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Nick Valdez's 7/10 score on Destructoid stated that the game was "Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun." 5/10 was Alice Bell's score on VideoGamer.com, who wrote "Despite fun combat and characters, Agents of Mayhem becomes repetitive and grinding. In trying to chase the popularity of Saints Row, it misses having an identity of its own." Michael Goroff's score of 7/10 on Electronic Gaming Monthly said that "Agents of Mayhem is one of those games with so much potential that just doesn't quite reach the…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 237 · most liked firstBorderlands 3 isn't funny but as someone who plays, at some point or another, every game that tries to be 'funny' it's in the bottom half but only barely like Agents of Mayhem and Saint's Row the Saint's Row are both less funny than Borderlands 3
negative · AI labelView post →let´s start by saying that i´m furious about how people treated this game. everyone cried and b*tched about this game so hard that i never even tried the game out, 9 years later here i am playing this game and in my surprise, the game is very good. the world is gorgeous, character designs are nice, gameplay is fluid, mechanics are fun, the overall setting of the game is very unique. is it Saints Row? No. but is it a good game? Absolutely! i just treated it as a game of it's own, went in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're expecting something like Saints Row, I wouldn't recommend it. However, if you approach it without seeing it as a spin-off of the series, it’s a decent choice for a casual playthrough—especially during a sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I joined them with Saints Row 3 back in the day and enjoyed 4/GOH. I even played AND platinumed Agents of Mayhem (Depression can make you do weird things man) But my favorite game from them will always be Red Faction Guerilla. To this day the destruction in that game still hasnt been rivaled in the AAA console market (if it has please point me in the right direction). The gameplay was simple but the destruction added so much fun to it. Even the multiplayer had some crazy moments only…
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah since they explicitly say performance met mangement expectations, I suspect they knew ahead of time that it's going to bomb, so they took Epic's money and thereby guaranteed some monetary return at least. It's a shame, because while I loved SR3 (and enjoyed SR4 and even GOOH albeit I could not stand playing as Johnny), Agents of Mayhem and now the new Saints Row showed that not only is the humor outdated by modern standards and they didn't know how to modernize it, they also couldn't even…
neutral · AI labelView post →Agents of Mayhem is the most fake video game ever made
negative · AI labelView post →*CRASH FiX* > Right click your game in steam and select properties. > Select the Controller option on the left side. > Select "Disable Steam Input" from the drop down menu. > Start and Play your game. This stops your game from crashing and allows your controller to work properly. As for the game it's as if they made Saints Row 5, renamed it, added different characters and forgot coop. Still a really fun and funny game...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Better than the Saints Row 2024 Reboot for 2 reasons: - It works. - No campaign about student dept. (not saying it's saints row) (obvi)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a die hard saints row fan it pains me to see the state of the franchise at the end of 2025. I have played all of them and yes even that terrible reboot one. But this one I actually never played until now. On my journey through playing all my games, It was finally time to visit this and see how I felt about it. Honestly I am very conflicted. There were parts of the game I enjoyed like the three character rotation during live battles, Brightfull colors, and getting to play a variant of Gat…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd heard it was bad, but I figured I could still enjoy it. Boy was I wrong. This is like some kind of inbred overwatch clone trying to be a saints row game. But it's safe and quirky, instead of edgy and vicious. This is certainly the game they made before the horrific "Saints Row" reboot, you can feel their greasy fingerprints on this as well.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game leans way too hard into collect'em'up and forgot to include an interesting reason to be collecting. You become overpowered almost immediately and the game is reduced to running for the next collectible forever. There is fun to be had here, If I could do like a "mid" vote I think I would. It's fun being superhuman and jumping all over a fairly well built world. It's fun being able to customize your vehicles and characters. It just ends up feeling too sandbox to me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Crashing and performance issues remain unaddressed. Many can't launch the game on modern operating systems. Stay away even if its on sale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →what a mess. someone tried to make a game with crackdown vibes, but none of the standout features, by just throwing more stuff into a blender, and then more, and then just gave up and tried to make it saints row instead, the 4th one. but also without any of its standout features? shooting feels nice but the combat is bland, and the movement feels super weird.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To give credit where credit is due, I think the “hero shooter” aspect of this game is very well thought out. I won’t pretend like all the characters are perfectly balanced and there isn’t a huge power gap between some of them, but they all offer very distinct playstyles that will probably appeal to different people. Unfortunately, the positives basically begin and end there. Never before have I seen an open world game so averse to actually utilizing its open world. I wish I was exaggerating…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Agents of Mayhem is loosely connected to the Saint's Row universe. However, if you're expecting the same exact type of action or bigger, you'll be disappointed. However, if you're of saturday morning cartoonish type of theme, that's what this is. If you're a fan of old style G.I. Joe, Bionic Six, or one of those type of shows, where the evil organization is over the top, ham-y and where you and your team/group have to stop them to save the world....this is it. The enemy is 'LEGION' and many…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To be clear, he seems to be talking about the reboot. I don't know if he feels the same way about 3 and 4 from the article. I may argue that going from the reception of the end result he may not be wrong. Whether that would have been true of the team that was making the two games people actually like or why they went from that to Agents of Mayhem is not something I have an informed opinion about. He's definitely right that the industry isn't throwing money at the wall to see what sticks…
neutral · AI labelView post →I think this was a fun open world 3rd person shooter. Each character is joy to play with in terms of how the characters move and play. The missions got really repetitive. The game didn't really feel like saint's row, which this game was a spinoff from. And now the company is shut down. So fun, but a mixed bag.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A straight DOWNGRADE from Saints Row 3/4, but might be worth it on deep discount. This game suffers from serious identity crisis. It wants to be something new and different from Saints Row, but it doesn't want to abandon the benefits of being a Saints Row game, so what we get here is a mixed bag. What they did great in Agents of Mayhem: + A Diverse Cast with Recurring Characters: I liked most of the playable characters (well, except maybe Red Card, and I really like football) and the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I genuinely loved this game for the first few hours (gameplay, personality, style). But then the massive repetitiveness set in, which turned love to like (literally endless cycles). Then the progress losing bugs and glitches started to really irritate turning like into meh (hanging, unreachable quest objectives, enemies in walls). Unfortunately, I dismissed the reviews that mentioned bugs and glitches. I am stubborn so I will complete still try to complete the game. Consider this review a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disappointing game, could not continue playing out of sheer boredom.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a bit of a hidden gem - it doesn't seem to have gotten the attention it deserves. Storyline isn't anything special, but it's decent and the writing is pretty good for the genre. I like the story beats unique to each character, too. Mechanically, it's a nice feeling shooter. Guns are responsive, targeting feels good, abilities make sense and are effective. Above average here. Team mix-and-match is a nice touch, lots of combinations and builds for each character/team. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't recommend. It's not that Agents of Mayhem is a BAD game, so much as that it's just not a GOOD game. The gameplay is unoriginal and unexciting. The dialogue is forgettable and uninspired. The soundtrack is forgettable. The game felt easy but chaotic. There was nothing about it that made me want to keep playing, and I'm sure there are a number of better titles out there in the genre. It's probably ok if you've got nothing better to do, but with so many good games out in the world,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Agents of Mayhem squanders its stylish Saturday-morning cartoon premise on one of the most tedious gameplay loops in modern action games. While switching between eccentric heroes in combat offers brief flashes of fun, the experience quickly collapses under relentless repetition. The mission structure is painfully formulaic, forcing you to hack the same consoles, fight identical waves of grunt enemies, and clear the same objectives ad nauseam. Worse yet, the indoor dungeon levels—specifically…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A reasonably interesting alternate universe to Saints Row, Agents of Mayhem feels like it tried too hard to trend-chase. It resembles a hero shooter, with a roster of predefined agents you can swap between during a mission (you can choose a team of 3 at a time and freely swap between them during the mission, each of them being from a certain archetype and each being customizable to a certain extent). Each agent has certain weapons and gadgets they can use, and the game's not as flexible as any…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only play this if you're an absolute die hard fan of SR and/or Volition or managed to get it for like $2 thanks to Humble Bundle. I originally bought the complete edition for like $5 on Xbox because it was so cheap and it was worth it but I couldn't imagine having to spend full price on this. I don't know why this game exists to begin with.. it's one of the more stranger spin-offs I've ever seen and played where they tried to create their own Avengers/Justice League of characters and story…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like it. You have to enjoy the combat in this game to like it, otherwise there is not much substance in the game to enjoy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Though my play time says 12 minutes, I have many hours on this game on Xbox. It's honestly not a bad game overall. Wish it had a co-op function. RIP to Volition studios, your contributions to the gaming industry should not go unnoticed. I enjoyed my time play testing this game in house for the devs. Everyone was so passionate about this project, and its a real shame it didnt end up working out better. 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed Agents of Mayhem. Was certainly better than Saints Row (Reboot).
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring and repetitive.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this one but the mission design is super repetitive and boring Aside from few and far between set pieces you'll just go to location > kill generic bad dudes > hack something > kill more generic dudes > next area > hack again > mission complete and that's about 80% of the game Graphically as well as how the game actually feels has aged very well but the characters and story have zero depth to them, it's all the generic stereotype characters you've seen a million times…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a massive Saints Row fan, I'm meant to hate this game. But honestly... I really enjoy it. I played through maybe 15% of back in 2019 but now I'm playing it in 2024, minus a few performance issues and bugs (which aren't game breaking, more just silly / slight inconveniences like enemies stuck in walls or getting stuck freefalling on a ledge), this game is actually really fun and unique. It's honestly even fun to just run around the map and collect the red shards. I'm about 70% through now…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game, its cool, ill keep playing it. but playing on m^k makes me dizzy from the weird motions and forced camera, and controller is scuffed as hell and devs give the same BS for 12 years about how they cant "replicate" the problem. sure you cant. thats why its been an issue and people have to fix the game themselves to use a controller. So i got roller to work and all, but im typing this out now because i forgot the one of two buttons on my xb0ne controller that makes the game crash, and i…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's like Crackdown, but with a sense of humor.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Truthfully Agents of Mayhem isn't Overwatch... Which is kind of the problem. It wasn't saints row, It wasn't a new game. It just kind of existed.
negative · AI labelView post →Awesome, underrated game. Ideal for Steam Deck (with my patch). Very nice open world, funny and likable characters, and nice Saints Row references. Especially on 95% discount, this is very much worth buying.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →never go full ♥♥♥♥♥♥. that's what they did. it cost Volition a slow death: layoffs, a reboot SR that no one asked for and a quick shutdown. but the gameplay was smooth and nice, just not funny and with no point to spending time on it. like The Venture Bros. without the title characters.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It wasn't a good game and it was completely flawed. The levels were repetitive and the gameplay was dry, even the driving was a disaster. I was just entertained by the environmental graphics and it's really great for photography.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a confused mess. It has these characters with all these diverse abilities and feels like they're balanced for a hero shooter, but it's single-player. It has all these varied ways to deal death, but the enemies are boring to fight. There's a decently-sized city to navigate ostensibly based on Seoul, South Korea, but it's devoid of any personality beyond cartoon-y futurism. It's trying to be silly like an 80s cartoon, but the writing falls flatter than Lindsay Lohan's career.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Beware MKB: There is auto-aim and auto camera centering. Turning these off in the settings does not work. Seeing as how Volition is no more, this will very likely never be fixed. Apart from that, after the short 20 mins of playtime, I regret to leave a negative review, as I thought the animated cutscenes that I've seen had charm and the gameplay seemed promising. I especially looked forward to the character switch = weapon switch mechanic, but the above mentioned warning turned me off the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Agents of Mayhem is a third person shooter + RPG dungeon crawler combo mixed with adult humor and a Saturday morning cartoon vibe that draws heavily from spy TV shows and movies, like James Bond. Those are all weird combinations, and much like how some people dislike pineapple on pizza, Agents of Mayhem may not be for you. It’s important to not think of this as one of the Saint’s Row games, because Agents of Mayhem has almost nothing in common with those. You’ll be spending a chunk of your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 While things can get repetitive at times the gameplay and control are fun and enjoyable, music is alright, story is short and dose not take to long and the side missions are fine, the only bugs I get with this game is the game sometimes acts like a lawnmower in witch you gotta start it up a few times but not to often to be annoying seems like the spawning after a long time of no play has a bug witch could be due to the fact the Volition servers are no longer a thing so if you get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was great...and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise. Like a 3rd person Far Cry 3 or Rage 2 + GTA but way more outlandish. Or perhaps The Division + GTA. Lots of box finding for unlocks and skill points, really short missions but plenty of them, etc. And actually plays great on Steam Deck ****if**** you simulate mouse and keyboard controls (which works perfectly). For some reason the game crashes the second it received true joypad input. I assume something to do with the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →PROS & CONS after 50+ hours on XBox One; 35+ hours on PC Entertaining open-world character action platform shooter where the moment-to-moment mob control withstands the game's many presentational disappointments. [+] Very good variety of playable characters and playstyles. [+] Good variety of open world activities that are worth engaging. [+] Good character progression is well-integrated with the mechanics and loot. As characters level up, they gain access to a decent variety of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this isn't a good game. The idea of a great game is here, and there are plenty of good things that could have congealed in a different timeline, but it's pretty bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I mean, I was interested in this game but during all the development interviews and gameplay previews, all I could think was: Didn't "Agents of Mayhem" already kill a studio? wild to think the same game with DC comic skins could save one 🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →love this game, just need little bit polishing. gameplay 6/10 story 5/10 open world 7/10 music 8/10 MC 8/10 requirement : low to mid pc
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →With this game, honestly, I made a huge effort to like it. I tried everything, put in quite a few hours, did a lot of side and main content, tried to see everything about the characters, because personally I think the Saints Row franchise, from the first one on Xbox 360 up to Gat Out of Hell, are very good and enjoyable games. Well, maybe the last one I mentioned not so much, it’s kind of crap, but I thought, okay, this is a reboot from Johnny Gat’s perspective like it appeared in the canonical…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feels like another Marvel's Avengers situation. A fantastic game that everybody wanted to be something specific, it wasn't, and then dogpiled on it and judged it without trying it. This is not Saint's Row, and that is fine. It's really good, and does some stuff better than SR. The gameplay is very engaging, energetic, and constant chaos and mayhem from start to finish. The city of Seoul is very vibrant, colorful, and beautiful to look at. The story is silly and goofy, but it's exactly what I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →even at 95% off, the dialogue is too unbearable to stomach playing this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought it was a great game. I got introduced to the Saints Row games with Saints Row IV. I loved it so I then played Saints Row 3. This game is in the same style in terms of humor gameplay as those two game i mentioned (though there are characters that are even more fluid and abilities not found in the Saints Row games). This game, will now be part of my favorite games along with Saints Row 3 and IV
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you don't like the gunplay, you better not buy this, cause that's all there is. The jokes all fall flat, the story is boring, the characters are all obnoxious and the entire world is all the left wing politics except guns, why are there guns? This is diversity is our strength, pride, kickass girlboss feminism and green environmentalism. Every male character is a doofus and joke and every female character a tough genius. Gameplay? What gameplay? You run to point A, hack a thing, shoot all…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →loved it, although i understand why there could be mixed reviews about it. I yet to play any of the saint row games, so unsure about comparison or need to compare but the game could be really fun and especially if you like the characters, the humour is more like typical in "action movie" maybe, but I care less about that, I even liked that in some parts because it fit, I also really liked all the male characters in-game, especially Yeti 🩷 bad: - missions too long (and not in a good way, just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I could give it more time. I really could, but I don't think I will. It's just ... I always say "catch the audience within the first hour or you've failed". And it's not catching on for me. The intro seems somewhat promising, with the stylized animated series look, but then the actual game starts ... and I'm already noping out. The story is as cliché as it gets, the characters are all shallow stereo types, not entirely without charm, but this game came out in 2017. Yes, it's now 2025, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Better than Saints Row 2022
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bought it for just under $5... And it's just not entertaining even with next to no barrier to entry...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I keep coming back to this game only to be reminded of what a total waste of potential it was.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I spent 20 hours playing Agents of Mayhem but it took only 2 missions to experience all it had to offer. Believe me when i tell you every mission plays out the same. There is no variety, no substance nor any exciting ideas to keep you interested. It feels like a glorified demo. If you decide to do the side missions like i did, you will quickly realise even the lairs you go through are 1 to 1 copies of eachother. All you do is mindlessly kill billions of enemies. If it had a decent story,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GAME DOES NOT LAUNNCH Game will NOT launch. I have tried Everything and nothing from disabling my anti-virus, updating windows, verifying the game, doing other things i can't name off the top of my head. It's a real shame this game has this Game breaking bug. WHY SELL IT IF IT'S GONNA DO THIS
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well.. this one is an interesting review for me to write, that i guess not many people will even read. This game did NOT get a lot of love when it was released. People were expecting Saints Row levels and maybe something that was even bigger and better than that. That they did not get. I'll be the first to admit. But i also think these expectations were the main reason why this game didn't do well... cause it really isn't a bad game. I admit that when i first tried it, i didn't give it much…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really did not enjoy this game Too much fantasy, simple story, ridiculous movement and combat I hope you will not regret buying it like me
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