Full Void

With its wonderful pixel art and minimalist but atmospheric soundtrack, we’ve been pleasantly surprised with Full Void. We honestly launched it while waiting for another game to download, but then couldn’t pull ourselves away until it was over. Needless to say, while it’s quite short and relatively simple, it’s an experience you shouldn’t overlook during this absurdly busy period. Especially if you have a fondness for old-fashioned 2D platforming adventures.

A short but challenging adventure about taking back humanity's freedom from an evil AI, Full Void is a beautifully crafted cinematic platformer that owes as much to Another World as it does Inside.

Full Void is an excellently crafted cinematic puzzle platformer that, despite its short length and occasionally obscure story, should absolutely be experienced by anyone who enjoys the genre.

The gameplay of Full Void is ultimately playing second fiddle to the aesthetic experience, a task accomplished with more competence than ingenuity. Like the narrative progression, puzzle elements are neatly emergent, with each area of the game presenting new concepts that iterate into increasingly complex solutions. Everything caps at a reasonably low difficulty, shying significantly away from the more frustrating or obtuse segments of most of the game's retro inspirations. A moderate increase in difficulty might be to Full Void's benefit, with the time needed to reach solutions occasionally o...

Full Void is a cool little indie game that makes the most out of its influences and offers up a nice mix of puzzling and platforming within its short playtime. While it doesn’t revolutionise the genre, it is a nice throwback to cinematic platformers of old that removes many of the more frustrating elements of its predecessors. If you remember the likes of Prince of Persia fondly then you could do a lot worse than jump into the Full Void.