Mirror's Edge players with a taste for Brutalism should bookmark VHOLUME, the new parkour game from a Babbdi dev

You can't outrun bureaucracy, but delight bash try

Last year, myself, Brendy and Graham got fearfully excited astir Straftat, a bountiful escaped 1v1 FPS with representation designs calibrated to nostalgiafuck anybody who ever played Quake implicit an LAN oregon hoarded shareware CDs. Our fever burned each the hotter for knowing that Straftat is the enactment of them wot did Babbdi, the astonishing Brutalist exploration crippled from 2022.

Brendy and Graham person present near the Treehouse, alas, truthful determination is cipher present to get excited with maine astir VHOLUME, a first-person parkour crippled from 1 of the Straftat developers. I americium sitting unsocial successful my room, sorrowfully punching the air, tears pooling astir my ankles and threatening to short-circuit the PC. Just arsenic good it's a azygous subordinate experience, I guess.

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VHOLUME is the enactment of Léonard Lemaitre, the aforesaid Straftat dev, positive Nathan Grange and Niels Tiercelin, who I'm not acquainted with. It's being published by IronEqual. The crippled casts you arsenic Robert, a antheral galloping done "the derelict superior of Afro-Eurasia", ruled by a tyrannical Ministry. He's connected a ngo to reconstruct his family's revoked ration tickets. Quite what this has to bash with parkour remains to beryllium seen. It doesn't look similar determination are immoderate different humans successful the setting.

It's different dystopian Brutalist satellite of canted slabs, yawning factual turbines, and slit windows stacked successful specified a mode arsenic to animate monolithic trypophobia. In immoderate of the screens, it looks similar there's immoderate liveable municipality architecture. In others, it looks similar a continuation of Straftat's abstract level mash-up ethos, with blocks jutting from mist.

The tech is little 90s than that of Straftat oregon Babbdi, with softer, diffuse lighting and shadows. I'm not definite which aesthetic I prefer. VHOLUME is simply a handsome beast, but it's benignant of similar they rubbed Straftat down with scented oils.

Expect "movement-centric gameplay wherever the subordinate tin jump, run, ascent and descent with large freedom". True princes of parkour "can exploit momentum, observe shortcuts, and interruption the labyrinthine design, making each tally a trial of accomplishment and ratio arsenic they pursuit people times."

There's nary merchandise day yet, and nary trailer, but you tin find immoderate gifs connected the Steam page. I ideate Mirror's Edge fans who tin unrecorded without the radiance of that game's City of Glass mightiness bask this. As volition radical who relished past year's Lorn's Lure.