Vholume review – a headlong rush of parkour perfection in a brutalist wonderland

PC; Nathan Grange, Léonard Lemaitre, Niels Tiercelin, IronEqualRace across impossible dystopian cityscapes in this exhilarating game of wall-runs, death-chancing leaps and split-second improvisationAt first, Vholume seems like a quick rush through some smartly selected references. Has this breathless yet austere parkour game been designed or ingeniously curated? The urban gymnast moveset comes from Mirror’s Edge. Level names use terms like conapt, first coined by Philip K Dick. And the environments themselves are dystopian and surreal, Half-Life 2’s City 17 colliding with the blasted avenues and mute archways of de Chirico. Many games have influences. Vholume has actual taste.All the surface