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
8 years and 339 days ago
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Positive19 reviews84.2%
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13 itemsAbout 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:
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
