Void/Breaker

Genre conventions like those in a classic FPS can limit creativity, but they can also breed ingenious twists on expectation. That’s the case with Stubby Games’ Void/Breaker, an impressive and surprising departure from familiarity that combines roguelike elements with high-velocity play. The result is intensely fun, challenging, and easy to get lost in, as you power through one run after another to escape the clutches of a clinical and unfeeling AI.

The early access version offers plenty of game to explore. You control a human that has seemingly been trapped in a digital landscape and forced to confront an endless series of combat simulations. A former “tester” makes contact, having somehow survived death to live on within the bounds of the complex program, and this individual urges you to join him in an escape attempt.