Something involving the creators of Straftat goes to be on my radar. The lo-fi 1v1 shooter was topped the best FPS of 2024, brilliantly condensing ’90s fashion deathmatch into hyper-quick rounds throughout dozens of creatively designed maps. However Straftat can be among the best shooters of 2025, too, because of the immense amount of support the Lemaitre brothers have poured into, basically doubling the map depend since launch.
Now, one half of Straftat’s builders, Léonard Lemaitre, has introduced a brand new sport referred to as Vholume, a Mirror’s Edge fashion first-person platformer set in an unlimited, dystopian metropolis.
The construction of Vholume is not wholly clear, however the story sees you taking part in as a personality referred to as Robert, dwelling within the metropolis of Afro-Eurasia. Your aim is easy, restore your loved ones’s revoked ration ticket. However you might be obstructed at each flip by the town’s impenetrable forms, which “turns a easy process into an odyssey”. The world will apparently characteristic shortcuts that gamers can exploit to enhance their goal occasions and “break the labyrinthine design“, which sounds enjoyable.
Solely one of many Lemaitre brothers, Léonard, is engaged on this sport, a part of a three-person dev crew that additionally consists of Nathan Grange and Niels Tiercelin. It is being printed by IronEqual, which is developer and writer of the 2017 journey sport Over the Moonlight.
There isn’t any launch date for Vholume but. However there was a two-year hole between Babbdi and Straftat, so there’s an opportunity we would see Vholume someday in 2026. If you cannot wait that lengthy to take pleasure in some Brutalist-coded precision platforming, then I like to recommend you try Lorn’s Lure, a sport of climbing, sliding, and leaping by means of huge, decaying megastructures that was one in every of my favourites from final yr.
