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The Void

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The Void (also known as Tension, ) is a 2008 first-person adventure video game developed by the Russian studio Ice-Pick Lodge and published in Russia, other CIS-countries, and Poland by ND Games on 17 April 2008. It won the "Most Original Game" award at the Russian Game Developers Conference, KRI in 2007. The game was released in English-speaking regions on October 23, 2009, and then as a digital download on Steam on December 16, 2009. Synopsis The player takes on the role of a lost soul that accidentally lingers in a place called "the Void" before meeting its absolute death. The Void is a purgatory-like place, in which the most valuable thing is Color, a liquid that represents lifeforce. Color is scarce, and the Void's inhabitants are plagued by famine. These inhabitants are beautiful naked Sisters and monstrously deformed Brothers, two conflicting factions that the player must interact with. Color is a universal resource in the game — it functions as the player's health, armor, stats and ammo. With the help of Nameless Sister, the player finds out that there is a way to escape the Void and be reincarnated on the "surface", but in order to do this, the player must pose as one of the Brothers and eventually confront them. Over time, the Brothers will reveal themselves in the game. These Brothers are: Mantid, the "Elder" of the Brothers, who walks on stilts and has a spear impaled through his abdomen; Whaler, who wields two blades and whose head is sewn onto his back; Pit, who is fused with a mining drill; Ironclad, who has multiple cannons that fire at the player; Tyrant, who has several limbs and heads along with three visible hearts and who rolls along on a stone wheel; Caterpillar, who is connected to a rolling sphere or spheres through tubes in his abdominal area; Warden, who forms a cage made of his ribs and hangs from the ceiling like a swinging birdcage; Montgolfier—who, in the Russian version, had hair, but in the English version, does not—is fused with a hot air balloon; Triumphator, who is fused with a large, gear-powered phonograph and acts as a one-man band; and Patriarch, the oldest of the Brothers, who is similar to a senior in a wheelchair and appears to have no head. The Brothers, depending on the player's actions, may act aggressively; some might also be unsure of or sympathetic to the protagonist. Patriarch and Montgolfier are said by the other Brothers to be the most fond of the protagonist, followed by Caterpillar and Triumphator.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named The Void: episode of Star Trek: Voyager (S7 E15) · 2016 film directed by Steven Kostanski and Jeremy Gillespie · 2001 film · manifestation of nothingness

Overview

The Void (also known as Tension, ) is a 2008 first-person adventure video game developed by the Russian studio Ice-Pick Lodge and published in Russia, other CIS-countries, and Poland by ND Games on 17 April 2008. It won the "Most Original Game" award at the Russian Game Developers Conference, KRI in 2007. The game was released in English-speaking regions on October 23, 2009, and then as a digital download on Steam on December 16, 2009. Synopsis The player takes on the role of a lost soul that accidentally lingers in a place called "the Void" before meeting its absolute death. The Void is a purgatory-like place, in which the most valuable thing is Color, a liquid that represents lifeforce. Color is scarce, and the Void's inhabitants are plagued by famine. These inhabitants are beautiful naked Sisters and monstrously deformed Brothers, two conflicting factions that the player must interact with. Color is a universal resource in the game — it functions as the player's health, armor, stats and ammo. With the help of Nameless Sister, the player finds out that there is a way to escape the Void and be reincarnated on the "surface", but in order to do this, the player must pose as one of the Brothers and eventually confront them. Over time, the Brothers will reveal themselves in the game. These Brothers are: Mantid, the "Elder" of the Brothers, who walks on stilts and has a spear impaled through his abdomen; Whaler, who wields two blades and whose head is sewn onto his back; Pit, who is fused with a mining drill; Ironclad, who has multiple cannons that fire at the player; Tyrant, who has several limbs and heads along with three visible hearts and who rolls along on a stone wheel; Caterpillar, who is connected to a rolling sphere or spheres through tubes in his abdominal area; Warden, who forms a cage made of his ribs and hangs from the ceiling like a swinging birdcage; Montgolfier—who, in the Russian version, had hair, but in the English version, does not—is fused with a hot air balloon; Triumphator, who is fused with a large, gear-powered phonograph and acts as a one-man band; and Patriarch, the oldest of the Brothers, who is similar to a senior in a wheelchair and appears to have no head. The Brothers, depending on the player's actions, may act aggressively; some might also be unsure of or sympathetic to the protagonist. Patriarch and Montgolfier are said by the other Brothers to be the most fond of the protagonist, followed by Caterpillar and Triumphator.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).