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The Nothing

The Nothing is a surreal and atmospheric action game with a new aesthetic, procedurally generated elements and perma-death - Designed for multiple short "runs", with endings based on the route you've chosen and the actions you've taken.

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August 30, 2017
9 years and 63 days ago
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About the Game

A surreal, blood-soaked side-scroller. Without any scrolling.

Trapped in an non-euclidean purgatory, face fourth dimensional horrors and seek a way to break the cycle and escape the tesseract.

No backtracking, the only way is forward - deeper into the hypercube.

The Nothing is a surreal and atmospheric action game with a new aesthetic, procedurally generated elements and perma-death - Designed for multiple short "runs", with endings based on the route you've chosen and the actions you've taken.

Features:

  • Persistently store items between runs in the steamer trunk
  • Your actions and route travelled seals your fate
  • Level generation based on the overall direction of travel
  • Five separate routes
  • Twenty one bosses
  • Nine different endings

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