The Void

The Void is an adventure game made by Ice Pick Lodge.

The cinematic experience itself is the main focus of the game, but there is also a central theme of emptiness. Noé describes the game's subject as "the sentimentality of mammals and the shimmering vacuity of the human experience." The dramaturgy after the Haruspex has been shot is loosely based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and ends with the spirit's search for a way to reincarnate. The develop, who opposes all religious beliefs, says that "the whole movie is a dream of someone who read The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and heard about it before being [shot by a gun]. It's not the story of someone who dies, flies and is reincarnated, it's the story of someone who is stoned when he gets shot and who has an intonation of his own dream." Noé describes the ending of the game as The Haruspex's recollection of "the most traumatic moment of his life – his own birth". The developer also leaves open the possibility that the Haruspex's life starts over again in an endless loop, due to the human brain's perception of time.