Babbdi dev's movement-centric, brutalist VHOLUME has what it takes to be the next great parkour game

I person a unusual affinity for brutalism. It sucks you in, engulfs you successful its stature, kills your tone successful specified blunt, evident ways, that I can't assistance but beryllium wowed by successful each its oppressiveness. As an architectural styling, it is besides supremely opportune for sick parkour tricks, thing Léonard Lemaitre (Babbdi, Straftat), Nathan Grange and Niels Tiercelin each profoundly recognize with the volumetric VHOLUME, a "first-person parkour escapade acceptable successful a dystopian brutalist metropolis wherever bureaucracy turns a elemental task into an odyssey," which present has a demo.

The demo isn't a monolithic one, truthful there's not each that overmuch I tin accidental astir its expected communicative ("In the derelict superior of Afro-Eurasia, ruled by an all-controlling Ministry, Robert embarks connected a bureaucratic quest to reconstruct his family’s revoked ration tickets" sounds juicy and suitable for the setting), but what is determination is much than capable to get a beardown consciousness for its "movement-centric gameplay."

As antecedently noted by quality overlord Edwin, determination is an evident Mirror's Edgeness to the crippled fixed that it is benignant of the golden modular for parkour games. I would astir apt picture VHOLUME arsenic Mirror's Edge Lite, not due to the fact that it's watered down oregon worse, conscionable simplified. All you tin bash is run, jump, and slide, each 3 of which tin beryllium mixed and matched into partition running, clamournig up walls, and gaining specified a large whoosh of velocity arsenic to consciousness dizzy.

Simple the inputs whitethorn be, but the complexity is there. The brutalist mounting works incredibly good for way devising, arsenic each azygous partition aboveground you tin spot tin beryllium tally across. There are evident main paths to instrumentality successful the brace of levels contiguous successful the demo, and determination are a plethora of shortcuts for you to fig retired for yourself (some of which I wouldn't counsel arsenic I did find a mates of sealings that I fell partially through).

It is simply a crippled precise evidently prepped for speedrunning - you tin contention against the ghosts of others who person played the game, immoderate of whom already look excessively bully for maine to consciousness arrogant of my times. There is an oldschool prime to it successful this sense, and it works wonders to propulsion you to propulsion disconnected risky maneuvers. Games similar this unrecorded and dice by their question tech, and I deliberation this 1 has the imaginable to unrecorded a 1000 lives. I volition gladly hold for its inevitable quality astatine GDQ.

You tin wishlist VHOLUME and effort retired the demo for yourself close here.