Black The Fall mixes Limbo and Oddworld in a bleak adventure

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Black The Fall is one of the more striking 2.5D adventures on the horizon. A monochromatic mix of exploration, stealth and platforming, it appears to be influenced by Limbo, the early Oddworld titles and Mark of the Ninja. Its developer, the Romanian Sand Sailor Studio, has named Another World and Flashback as inspirations as well.
Currently on Kickstarter, Black The Fall is the latest title to be part of the Square Enix Collective - a selection of games voted on by the community that Square will help promote in exchange for five per cent of its crowdfunding spoils.
So what makes Black The Fall unique in an industry full of bleak side-scrolling indie affairs? It's not the premise - which sees an amnesiac rising up against a totalitarian machine that rules society - but rather its cohesive, dynamic world.
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