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Limbo is horrifically beautiful. A monochrome purgatory painted in jet-black ink and scratches of charcoal. The screen’s peripheries glow and flicker, as if we’re peering into this world through a grainy, fish-eye lens. The gloomy background, given a sense of depth in just a wash of grey shade depicts destitution and despair. The figure of a young child hangs limply from a noose. Death is everywhere. White butterflies that flutter gently by are the only sign of hope. For all its terror and macabre, it’s mesmerising; impossible to turn away from.



It’s difficult not to talk about Limbo’s artistic vision in hushed reverie. It’s horrible, but startlingly pretty. A 2D puzzle-platformer built in black. The boy you control has a twee outline, all floppy hair and short trousers. Fill in that outline with colour and a toothy grin and he would fit right in with the Bash Street Kids. Here, he’s filled with dark nothingness, punctured only with searing white pinprick eyes.

The boy’s task? To find his sister. That’s all you need to know. There is no back story, no dialogue or cutscenes. Just the drive to push on through the shifting mists and silhouettes of the game’s environments and puzzles.

What’s brilliant about Limbo is developer PlayDead’s refusal to let the art style become a crutch. It’s unfathomably striking, but its shadows are cast to horrify and misdirect in the context of play. Part of the grand puzzle is figuring just what lies ahead, to the right of the screen. This is what makes Limbo so unsettling; tree branches that twitch and flail, before impaling you with a gruesome thud that shatters the pervasive silence; snatches of ground that look like buttons to activate the giant crushers above, but don’t quite behave as you’d expect. It’s a world built to confound you at every turn, where nothing is quite as it seems.