Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
Limbo is a 2D platformer. It’s got puzzles in it. It is unremittingly grim from beginning to end. It is also probably one of the most beautiful games you will play this year.
You play as a young boy, waking up in the middle of a forest and trying to get… well, anywhere, because there isn’t a single place in the entire game that you’d like to hang around in. Make no mistake, this is a world that will snap at your heels constantly until you’ve made your way out of it. There is a very loose story of sorts, but it’s not really important. Limbo‘s main focus, and its main triumph, is the creation of some of the most stunning yet unnerving environments ever seen in a videogame. The grainy, high-contrast monotone look that must surely get dull after 15 minutes, doesn’t. While it does occasionally cause problems – discerning which tiny black spikes are going to go straight through your face, and which are merely part of the background, is sometimes difficult – for the most part it’s handled really well, and takes you through a series of markedly varied environments. Even if you’ve seen some of the game’s later stages in trailers or sceenshots, the shift in style still manages to take you by surprise, helped in no small part by how utterly absorbing and downright grim Limbo is.
Limbo is a 2D platformer. It’s got puzzles in it. It is unremittingly grim from beginning to end. It is also probably one of the most beautiful games you will play this year.
You play as a young boy, waking up in the middle of a forest and trying to get… well, anywhere, because there isn’t a single place in the entire game that you’d like to hang around in. Make no mistake, this is a world that will snap at your heels constantly until you’ve made your way out of it. There is a very loose story of sorts, but it’s not really important. Limbo‘s main focus, and its main triumph, is the creation of some of the most stunning yet unnerving environments ever seen in a videogame. The grainy, high-contrast monotone look that must surely get dull after 15 minutes, doesn’t. While it does occasionally cause problems – discerning which tiny black spikes are going to go straight through your face, and which are merely part of the background, is sometimes difficult – for the most part it’s handled really well, and takes you through a series of markedly varied environments. Even if you’ve seen some of the game’s later stages in trailers or sceenshots, the shift in style still manages to take you by surprise, helped in no small part by how utterly absorbing and downright grim Limbo is.
Winner of more than 90 awards, including GameInformer’s “Best Downloadable”, GameSpot’s “Best Puzzle Game”, Kotaku’s “The Best Indie Game”, GameReactor’s “Digital Game of the Year”, Spike TV’s “Best Independent Game”, X-Play's “Best Downloadable Game” and IGN’s “Best Horror Game”
Reviews:
- “Limbo is as close to perfect at what it does as a game can get.” 10/10 - Destructoid
- "The game is a masterpiece.” 5/5 - GiantBomb
- “Limbo is genius. Freaky, weird genius. Disturbing, uncomfortable genius.” 5/5 - The Escapist
- “Dark, disturbing, yet eerily beautiful, Limbo is a world that deserves to be explored.” 5/5 - Joystiq
- A crash bug caused by custom DPI setting in windows has been fixed
- Controller detection has been improved
- Option to change resolution and windowed mode added to settings.txt
- OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 512MB
- Hard Disk Space: 150MB
- Video Card: 5 years or younger. Integrated graphics and very low budget cards may not work. Shader Model 3.0 required
- DirectX®: 9.0c
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