BRUTALIST PARKOUR · FAN FIELD MANUAL
One man. One revoked ration ticket. Five districts of paperwork.
🏆 Main story 5-7h·💯 100% ~10h
The parkour storyline is 5-7h; all routes, trinkets and the secret volume push ~10h. BABBDI DNA: short, dense, unforgettable.
Overwhelmingly Positive ·916 reviews · 97% positive
“An out of body experience. Crazy how the devs make consistently good games all the time. Just one more run.” — Steam review, 100 👍
Steam →Official store description:
"VHOLUME is a melancholic first-person parkour adventure set in a dystopian brutalist city where bureaucracy turns a simple task into an odyssey."
You are Robert. The Ministry revoked your family's ration tickets, and getting them back means a bureaucratic odyssey across five vertical districts — Receiving Hall, Vertical Records, the Underducts, Permit Plaza and Central Archive. Jump, run, climb and slide with full momentum freedom; chase target times; find shortcuts the level designers hid (and some they didn't). Solo or with friends. Chinese press called it the spiritual successor to BABBDI. $7.20, with a free demo.
"The spiritual successor to a parkour masterpiece." — Chinese gaming press (Youmin)
A gate passage in the Underducts can be jumped over, skipping 40 seconds. 7 of the top 10 runs use it; the other 3 are quoting "the spirit of target times" at them. The devs replied on Steam: "we didn't lock it, but it isn't the intended path" — both sides declared victory.
@duct_tape cleared all five districts in 19:47. The line: outer ledge-dash on Vertical Records + the Permit Plaza counter-hop chain. Frame-checked, no cuts, stamped by the leaderboard crew. Second place is 1:12 back and drilling the outer line.
The patch notes only say "miscellaneous collision fixes", but multiple runners swear the slide-jump launch frame changed — same runway, half a meter shorter. There's a 30-sample frame table, and there's "you're imagining it". Waiting on 1.0.2 notes.
Controls, momentum rules, where to get Form V-27 — your first three hours.
Slide-jump, chain-runs, charged kicks: every community-named technique.
Gold/silver/bronze targets for all five districts, line notes, the PB board.
Four departments, radio broadcasts decoded, two readings of the ending.
All 27 forms, what each stamp means, what completion unlocks.
14 with 6 hidden — one of them is a dare from the devs.