4/5 ★ – eatpotatochip's review of The Void.

The Void is a game by Ice-Pick Lodge that’s difficult, abstract, surreal and hard to describe - and I really hope people try it out. The setting sounds like an acid-induced dream - you are the soul of a human being that has died after a long period of starvation, and you now find yourself in a strange purgatory called the Void, filled with mystical women called Sisters and eldritch monstrosities called Brothers. You’re given the responsibility to save the Void by filling it with colour, but each Sister and Brother has their own idea of your role in the story, and you find their conflicts complicating matters substantially. Like Ice-Pick Lodge’s other games, you also have to take care of your own survival while helping the world. You’re essentially a filtration machine that takes colour from the Void, feeds it through their own hearts, and takes the processed colour and puts it back into the Void. You need to keep your hearts filled, though, or you’ll die if it runs out of colour while processing it. It’s a strange concept to wrap your head around, and proper planning is always required so you have enough colour to sustain yourself and help others, but it’s easy to get the hang of it. If you’re interested, do check out some gameplay videos and see if it’ll be your cup of tea.