Phantassm Plays | Full Void | Evercade | Full Game
4In Full Void, you take on the role of an unnamed teenager. OutOfTheBit deliberately kept the protagonist nameless and without any obvious gender identifiers so everyone could imagine themselves taking the leading role in this story. And it’s a story that feels increasingly plausible as time goes on: in a world where humanity had become dependent on artificial intelligence to keep things running smoothly, a rogue AI effectively enslaved most of the planet, locking them into the virtual worlds they had once used for escapism and dooming society to become a dystopia.
Some remained immune to the AI’s efforts to subjugate humanity, though: specifically, the young people. And it’s as one of those young people that you will attempt to fight back against the AI that has ruined the world. Will you be able to return society to a happier place? Or are things already too far gone? That remains to be seen — but in the meantime, you have a perilous adventure to work your way through.
Full Void draws heavy inspiration from classic cinematic platformers such as the famous Delphine Software games Another World and Flashback, which are, of course, themselves also available on Evercade. OutOfTheBit have successfully drawn on the advances in game design and development techniques since the original release of those games, however, and with Full Void have managed to blend the immaculately animated presentation of old-school cinematic platformers with the responsive and accessible gameplay one would expect from a 21st century title. To put it a tad more bluntly, if you ever found Another World or Flashback to be too difficult to enjoy properly, you’ll find Full Void to be a much more approachable experience, with a significantly more gradual challenge curve. Plus, hey — if you beat Full Void then go back to those Delphine classics, you may well find that your overall skills have improved! - Evercade