The Void
A first-person game in which after starving to death, the player wakes up in the Void, a dying land housing numerous Sisters and long-absent Brothers, all of whom subsist on Color, the essence of life in the…
The Void is an adventure developed by Ice-Pick Lodge, released 17 April 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Void is
The Void is an adventure game developed by Ice-Pick Lodge and released in 2008. It was published by Atari, Inc.. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Ice-Peak Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
When a person’s soul is extinguished, for a brief flickering moment it passes The Void—a grey limbo, breathed back to life by scarce droplets of Color scattered across it. Ravenous, monstrous Brothers beckon the soul to preserve every bit of it; enticing, sly Sisters beg to be fed. The whole Void, inhabited also by a multitude of weird and sometimes scary creatures, changes with every droplet of Color used, making every action you take have repercussions across the whole world. But perhaps there is another way to use the Color. The way to break out of the never-ending cycle of the Void. Nourishing Color in gardens and fighting the Void’s creatures, unlocking the Sisters’ hearts and taking…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Void holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium IV 2GHz, 512 MB of RAM and 128 MB DirectX® 9.0c compatible video card (e.g. NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX 5600 or ATi® Radeon™ 9600). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB.
What it launched against
The Void launched on 17 April 2008, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition and Mario Kart Wii. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto IV, Valkyria Chronicles, Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut Edition, Mario Kart Wii.
Cheats and codes
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