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Agents of Mayhem

Agents of Mayhem

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Agents of Mayhem is currently 92% off on Fanatical — down to $2.39 from $29.99.

At 92% off, this is one of the deepest discounts Agents of Mayhem reaches on Fanatical — near its typical floor.

That works out to $27.60 off the Fanatical list price of $29.99.

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About this game

Agents of Mayhem is Volition’s spin-off from the Saints Row universe, swapping that series’ anarchic gangster energy for a globe-trotting spy cartoon full of oversized personalities and even bigger explosions. It’s an open-world action game built around a roster of playable operatives taking on a cartoonishly evil organization, and the hook is simple: instead of one hero, you get a whole agency of them, each with a different feel in a fight.

How it plays

You run missions through the city of Seoul as part of MAYHEM, a group formed to take down LEGION, a villain outfit split into factions modeled on the seven deadly sins. The immediate draw is squad-based play: you pick a team of Agents, each with a distinct look, personality, weapon set, and skills, and swap between them as you tear through LEGION’s operatives and plans. Missions send you after specific villains and objectives scattered across the open world, and the tone leans into over-the-top, comic-book style action rather than anything grounded or serious. The variety comes from character choice as much as level design. Two different Agents tackling the same fight can feel like two different games, which is the whole point of building a roster instead of a single protagonist.

Who it’s for

If you liked Saints Row for the third-person shooting and the willingness to be silly rather than gritty, this is clearly cut from the same cloth, minus the gang-turf trappings. It suits players who enjoy switching between characters and finding the ones whose kit clicks for them, and who don’t mind an open world that exists mainly as a playground for missions rather than a place packed with side content to obsess over. It’s less of a fit if you want a tight, focused single-character story, or if the exaggerated tone and colorful, cartoonish villains sound more grating than fun to you. Fans expecting Saints Row’s specific brand of crude humor should also know this is a different flavor of over-the-top, built around a hero-team concept instead.

Is it worth it?

For players who are into the concept, that is, action gameplay with a rotating cast rather than one fixed character, there’s real value in having a roster to experiment with instead of a single build to master. It’s the kind of game that rewards curiosity about its characters more than it rewards grinding a single system, so your enjoyment scales with how much you like trying different Agents rather than how many hours you sink in. This is also a solid candidate for picking up on sale rather than at full price. It’s a few years old at this point, it never became a must-play system-seller, and its appeal is fairly genre-specific, so it’s better suited to an impulse buy when the price drops than a full-price purchase based on hype.

Quick facts

Genre: Action. Developer: Deep Silver Volition. Publisher: Deep Silver. Platform: PC (Steam). Release date: August 15, 2017.

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