Over The Void is caught between wanting to show you something and requiring you somehow arrive there on your own.

As an art piece it's beautifully bizarre, hyper saturated and full of weird twisting architecture inexplicably suspended in midair. The elegantly subtle house soundtrack is contemplative, maybe even a little meditative, pulling you into somewhere that feels familiar yet completely removed from our own world.

The problem is that Over The Void doesn't want to simply be a piece of art, it wants to be a game, and it doesn't know how to wrap its audio and visuals into something interactive. Your goal within each of the dozen or so levels is to hit buttons randomly positioned on parts of the environment whirling around you. To do so you place cross shaped platforms at will, either stationary or one which propels you higher into the air, until you've hit every button and the door to the next level opens. Aside from being extremely simplistic, navigating through these levels is rather abundantly tedious, as trying to platform upward requires you to look down and as a result it's rather hard to know where exactly you're going. This leads to a lot of bumping your head against the ceiling, or pieces of the environment, or random invisible walls that regularly appeared out of nowhere and proceeded to pound me toward the abyss below me as if the heaven's had seen fit to strike me down.

It's interactivity that feels forced, shoved in as a means to give you some objective to take on beyond admiring the world around you and perhaps to attempt to hide the complete lack of any context or narrative for what exactly is going on. I'd have been content, if rather confused, had Over The Void been nothing but a pretty screensaver for me to float around in, but its attempts to make itself more of a game cripple it and cause you to be so preoccupied with finding these blasted buttons that the artwork just becomes another obstacle you're required to somehow get around before moving onto the next level which may or may not work as intended. The abundance of control and performance issues make an already simple game feel unfinished and entirely unfocused, existing for no discernible reason than to be this incomprehensible thing attempting to ride the coattails of a recent trend of games as art that completely misses what makes any of them worthwhile.

tldr: colourful platformer that gets boring really fast.

start was feeling good but the concept became boring very fast.
i also felt like the movement was a little bit slow in later stages of the game.
additionally you cant change the preset keybindings to better ones than QSDZ for movement. especially the Z movement is kinda annoying for european keyboards.
gametime was really low with < 1hour for me.
discovered one bug in that gametime.
only positive things in my opinion are the colourful design of the levels and the music (both are my taste and it can differ for you)

Terrible lag on a machine that can play games with better graphics than this, even with lowest res and quality setting. I probably get 10fps.

i7 1.6ghz quad core cpu, nvidia 240GT graphics card, 8GB ram. It's not the best machine out there, but it'll play most games fine. Not this one though.

Regret buying. Waste of money. Unplayable.

[1/10]

This game is the worst game I have ever played in my entire life. There is next to nothing enjoyable about this game. It is supposed to be a platformer, but you can place platforms anywhere you want. Nothing is explained, be it goal or game mechanic. The models are poorly done and clipping is frequent. The registry of level completion is less than par. It is generally unpleasant and confusing. The music, which ranged from classical to borderline dubstep was not at all cohesive and didn't fit with the game.To top it off, the normal WASD move keys were changed to ZASD, with Z being move forward. And worse yet, the game needed to be closed to change it. Lastly, upon exiting the game, I had to go the task manager to end the exe, although I had already hit "quit game." I finished it in half an hour, and I will never open it again. All in all, atrocious.

This game gave me what I was looking for, gameplay and objective are quite simple to understand, so I felt free to explore astonishing environments while playing. Moreover Music and graphics goes very well together, I had a very pleasant time.

A majestic game, where a simple gameplay allows you to challenge gravity while wandering in a cosmic universe. The music is amazing, environments stunning, spending a few minutes/hours in the game is the best way to relax and empty your head. Congratulations Marie!

Just awesome! A psychedelic universe just as I like them. Congrats to the game developer because sometimes, I didn't knew where was the top and the bottom. An intuitif gameplay, easy to master!

More of a psychedelic experience than a game, over the void manages to pack incredible art and music into a 1/2 hour game time. Well worth the price of admission.

Elegant kinetic sculpture that you can view from the inside. Lovely music. Reminds me quite a lot of Everyday Shooter, though it's quite a lot easier and more contemplative.

Fantastic game but far too short, i wish it were longer. Extremely chill and the music is awesome

Beautiful game. Nice and relaxing soundtrack. Overall, a great unity game

A very short first-person platformer filled with relaxing psychodelic imagery and ambient music. You basically form platforms to jump on (left is normal floating platform, right is trampoline) so to reach a collection of buttons that open a gateway to another level.
I quite liked it, but I wouldn't recommend if you're not into the whole experimental thing.
The platforming might be frustrating too, especially when certain "weather-like"-powers come into play. It was slightly working against the relaxing nature it sold itself as.

Anyone liking Boards of Canada, REZ (SEGA) and/or your occasional mind-altering drugs, you'll love this little trip for sure. Other people might be off-put by not delivering more complexity into the whole experience.

Ehh... Not as glorious as it seems. Yes it'd be trippy, if you were actually on acid. It's essentially Antichamber with the puzzle aspect (kind of) of QUBE sans the cubes. It's definitely not worth the 5USD asking price. Take my word for it.

There were a few reviews saying that this is more of an art gallery of sorts than a game, and I disagree. The purpose of this being a game is to put you in this strange, foreign world, and having an objective keeps you are juuust long enough to appreciate the scenery without dragging things out too long. It's a very short experience, yes, and perhaps $5 for less than an hour of wandering may put people off, but I think it was worth experience, certainly. My only gripe is that having a failure state at all is a bit counter-productive, especially in the last area with one certain button that's kind of a pain ti get without dying... but ehh, I did enjoy this in the end, yes. I think it's a good length for the concept too, else it might start to drag given even a few more stages.

a lot of potential but the techniques required to awkwardly navigate the surreal and formless levels hinder the players ability to absorb the atmosphere and appreciate the artistic style of the game.

the graphics are very artistic but as a game, it's not much to 'play'.
would be better suited to a speedrun video on youtube.

10/10 - NY times
11/10 - IGN
15/10 - Agent Orange

Great game, would buy this game just for the soundtrack. The way the envoirment moves around with the music it is just fantastic. Would buy from devoloper again. Add more levels to the next game or add dlc.

10/10 would waste another hour of my life again.

Pro:
- it looks very amazing
- it's fun to play
- a good taste in music

Con:
- you can play through the whole game within 60 Minutes
- there are a few annoying bugs
- you most likely arent going to play it again after your first 2-3 runs