# ‘I’m Struggling to Find Anything Redeemable’: Bully’s Spiritual PS5 Successor Roasted in First Preview

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/im-struggling-to-find-anything-redeemable-bullys-spiritual-ps5-successor-roasted-in-first-preview/
- Published: 2026-07-23T17:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-23T22:34:05+00:00
- Original publisher: Push Square
- Original article: https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07/im-struggling-to-find-anything-redeemable-bullys-spiritual-ps5-successor-roasted-in-first-preview
- Topics: Entertainment, Gaming

## Key points

- IGN’s preview paints a bleak picture of Agefield High.
- Critics cite writing, bugs and awkward animations.
- A later PS5 release may allow some technical fixes.

## Summary

Agefield High: Rock the School, a PS5-bound sandbox game marketed as a spiritual successor to Bully, has received a highly critical early preview from IGN. The preview raises concerns that the game’s problems extend beyond normal pre-release roughness, potentially undermining its appeal ahead of release.

IGN reportedly described the game as unpolished, uninspired and flat, criticising its script, bugs, facial animations, physics and stealth systems. Developed by Germany-based Refugium Games, it draws on early-2000s American teen-comedy nostalgia but was said to fail to convincingly capture that setting; it launches on PC next month, with the PS5 version due later.

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