Whispers of the Void
- Roger
- Jul 19
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 20
Space Adventures
Explore and survive the mystery of the void so-called space. Take on new missions and venture to uninhabited planets and uncover alien technology.
All and everything in this story-driven VR sci-fi puzzle game.
The Game of The Play
Whispers of the Void introduces the exploration and adventures to different planets that hold different missions.
When beginning the game, you will get a holo-call from an old buddy of yours, leaving a holo-voice message informing you a bit about your upcoming mission.
To select a destination, all you have to do is walk back to the holographic astronomical map table and drag your spaceship to the desired planet you want to visit.
You will start with only one option of planet.
The game contains a lot of potential, though during the first planet mission I could already notice a few nameable bugs.
Errors as follows:
Trying to open the stone door with the left hand will completely remove the hand. It will disappear and be unavailable for anything; pressing the restart button within the game will do nothing. The only way is to restart the whole game.
The game doesn’t save if you exit, nor is there any noticeable manual saving. Which kind of brings back a thread to the stone door.
Needing to restart the game repeatedly, you grow impatient. And so, knowing what to do in the start, you might skip the beginning and go straight for the planet.
This will cause the holo-calling sound to continue playing in your ears too. Not only within the ship, and it's unable to display the call since you're already on the planet. The only way to fix it is restarting the game.
And if you continue to the stone door with the audio still calling and manage to open it, you will see everything as it is, but the stone guards holding swords have disappeared, and all that is left are floating swords.
Last bug important enough to mention: climbing/swinging. When climbing the walls to cross the deep crack with spikes at the bottom by the entrance of the ravine wall. By mistake I managed to swing myself, and far at that. But when trying to repeat it, the characters get swung into the wall from where they pushed away from, even with arms stretched out.
So, it's difficult to swing by yourself, but when it accidentally happens, it goes way better than thought.
After experiencing all of this during one long play session, I felt like this would be enough information for a game that is still under development.
Visual & Audio
Visuals
For the visuals, the game looks good. Maybe a bit too bright on the planet in my opinion, but otherwise I was pleased with all the small details (even if unable to interact with them) on the spaceship.
And the surrounding structure and buildup. The crystals, open view displaying that you’re on the side of a large ravine wall that got an opening in it.
Then let's not forget the holographic characters that are displayed throughout the game. The devs did good with the visuals, but core gameplay needs a bit of help up the ladder.
Audio
The audio of both sound effects and voice casting was quite good. There’s no background music, so you’d have to be alone with your thoughts or open Spotify.
But overall, when it comes to audio, it’s all good. And I’m counting the holo-calling error as a game bug and not an audio bug. As the game is made for it to call until the holo-call is activated, which kind of broke when traveling too quickly to the first planet.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Visuals & Audio
Potential Good Game
Story
Cons
Climbing/Swinging Bug
Opening Stone Door Bug
Holo-Call Bug
Wall Gripping Areas Bug
No Saving
Way Too Bright
Restart Button Fixes Nothing
My final little thoughts
Whispers of the Void has an extremely big potential of being a very enjoyable, adventurous, puzzle-solving VR interaction game. But in its current state, it still needs a lot of work.
I got a key for this game to try it out a couple of months ago, and after finally getting the time to try it out, it still contains some amount of bugs.
So, unfortunately, I will have to say that Whispers of the Void is currently not recommended. If the developers want us to update this review for when the game is fully released, then we’d be glad to, and it’s just to send us an email.
Rating: 4/10
They Whisper Since The Phrase “In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream”
