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A review of a single failed game I'll likely never play

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A robot climbs floating branches in Void Climber.
Image credit: FuturePerfect Studio

A trick for trying to stay human in an online ecosystem that informs you of several "it's enough to make you just give up on life" events every.single.day is, I think, not becoming numb to seemingly minor tragedies in the face of apparently bigger problems. Don't play tragedy math, basically. Don't let frequency diminish feeling.

It's easy for me to call parkour platformer Void Climber a minor tragedy because I didn't work on it for three years to then sell 46 copies, then lose my job over it.

It feels incredibly callous to admit to myself that I will soon likely never think about Void Climber again. But having just read about it in a post-mortem blog, I'm thinking about it now.

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Nic Reuben is secretly several Skaven in a trenchcoat that have somehow developed a predilection for weird fiction, onion bhajis, RPGs, FPS, Immersive Sims, FromSoftware titles and Strategy Games that tell emergent stories.
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