Voices of the Void

In Voices of the Void, players take on the role of a scientist in a secluded laboratory. Your mission is to use the lab's equipment to collect, analyze, and sell signals from extraterrestrial sources, earning points to purchase food and upgrade your research facilities, thereby enhancing your ability to capture extraterrestrial signals. Throughout the game, players may encounter various unexpected and random events, including supernatural phenomena and even encounters with alien spaceships, potentially resulting in injury or equipment damage. The game currently offers 45 days of exciting story content and events, and as the game progresses, players will unlock more easter eggs, further enhancing the gameplay experience.

Gameplay of Voices of the Void:

Gameplay is centered around the operation and maintenance of the radio array and machinery, using the main building's terminals to locate, record, and download various interstellar radio signals from interstellar objects such as stars, exoplanets, satellites, and sometimes alien ships or space probes.

While operating the observatory, the player must manage their hunger and sleep. Machinery may also break down, reducing the observatory's processing power and possibly requiring the player to perform physical repairs. When the player completes tasks, they are given points that serve as the game's currency for buying items like food, machinery upgrades, or decorations.

In the process, the player may experience unusual events, including deadly weather events and encounters with extraterrestrial life and supernatural anomalies that can harm the player, damage equipment, or crash the game in a scripted sequence. The game contains references to demonology and paranormal phenomenon, referencing demons such as Stolas and Furfur, and contains an old area of a cult compound. Other entities include wisps and ghost deer that attack the player. Voices of the Void currently has over 45 days in story mode, with a multitude of unique events and over 200 unique signals, with some referencing other games, media, or paranormal phenomenon. Other events reference real life events, such as cardboard standees depicting Hopkinsville aliens or the McEwen Heart.

Features of Voices of the Void:

Immersive Signal Hunt in an Isolated Outpost: Voices Of The Void offers a unique blend of scientific simulation, psychological horror, and open-world exploration. Developed by indie creator mrdrnose, this game places players in the shoes of a lone scientist based in a remote Swiss mountain research facility. The main mission is to intercept, analyze, and sell mysterious signals originating from the depths of space.

Space Signal Collection: The core gameplay of Voices of the Void involves collecting signals fromacross the universe, ranging from simple radio waves to complex transmissions that reveal thehistory and future of space civilizations.

Signal Analysis and Puzzles: After collecting signals, players analyze them by solving puzzles thatsimulate real data processing and decryption, using logic, pattern recognition, and scientificknowledge to uncover hidden messages.

Exploration of Alien Environments: Players also explore alien planets and moons with unique environments and hazards, discovering clues about signals and sometimes finding ancient relics hinting at intelligent life.

Narrative Depth: The game features an evolving narrative, where interacting with signals and alien environments reveals a story spanning millennia. As players uncover fragments of information, they realize the fate of humanity may be tied to their discoveries.

Changelog:

Another stable 0.9.0 update that fixes most of the critical bugs and problems, and tweaked a bunch of gameplay elements. The game is still not fully balanced yet, until the next update.Changelog history since the last stable update from 09k to 09n:

Fixed:

Hooking the bunker keycard

atv moving by itself

Transformer cannot be fixed after KerfurO fixes it

Tutorial text issues

Vent crawler event doesnt knock down the vent

Thrown hooks cant pick up frozen items

Double use moments

Navmesh near emergency shower

Grass growing through the floor of the coordinate towers

Treehouse campfire doesnt spawn

Treehouse duplicates ariral spaceships

Unfolded mattress/sleeping bag collision with other items

By using RMB it will show the remaining uses for toolboxes and office tapes

Long signal text messages goes offscreen in the glossary

Renaming videocameras and using the notebook afterwards resets the camera name

Server minigame descriptions

Wall attachable objects became fully static when picked up when frozen

Drowning

Mannequin in the storage room does not jumpscare the player

Davy Jones locker issues

Witch broom doesnt show up in the store

"Lock oreintation/movement" tools doesnt save the info

Paper sheet description

TV and Radio links mix both local and url links together when shuffling

floppies wipe when inserted with a different button when inserted into server slots

Ghost buckets

Keybind menu issues

Props reset their size after save and load

The order of items in the vending machine changes randomly

Tutorial texts

Crouch ragdoll issues

Empty pots cannot be sold

Picking up farm pots deletes the plant inside

Floppies get ejected the wrong way out of the servers

The satellite foundation wall

rain and wind audio muffling on load

wind and weather in main menu

Hide Hotbar setting still shows the hotbar at times

Tutorial text issues

Tutorial gameplay issues (softlock, drives)

Signal workstation chair blocking the view

Erasing camera name renames it to None

Sellgun coins pick up

Sellgun can sell halucination food

Swinging underwater creates splashes

Toolgun rotation/movement lock doesnt save

Item names and descriptions

TV channel isnt getting saved

Vent crawler event

cameras and other stuff can be attached to KerfO

Changed:

Default bunk beds in the bedroom are now broken

Bunk beds drop gibs when broken

Fuses auto fixes the radio tower and coordinate tower when inserted

Working fuses cannot be taken out

Store 

Added 10+ new objects

Seasonal items moved to a separate category

Added "global search" checkbox

PC monitor and PC case can be turned into electronic scrap

Physical money

Coin colours

Added coordinate towers on the ingame maps

Plank

Perma rain and fog modes intensity

Subsave/backup saves system

Coordinate towers, transformers, radio tower, servers decay rate and frequency

Water splash effect

Explosions create unique underwater explosion

Notepad text

Stolas protection hours

3d printer UI - added destroy button

Tutorial text speed

Added:

1 keybind

4 settings

1 super signal

`The Round One`

10+ objects

Removed:

FAQs of Voices of the Void:

Q: Will there be a multiplayer in the future?

A: No, due to the lack of networking experience and lack of foundation for net in the game.

Q: Why game uses so much resources?

A: This might be caused by "Volumetric Light" setting, disable it and it should be better. Also you can lower the shadows, effects, draw distance, but setting shadows to 0 is not recommended if you want a decent picture.

Q: How to use custom content (pictures, radio, tv etc)?

A: There are entries for these in Help section in mainpause menu, but the asset folder is located at "appdatalocalvotvassets". If you can't see the folder - run your game As Administrator and it will generate the folder.

Q: All my settings are at 0; Quality is super pixelated; Completely blackgray screen?

A: Go to Settings>Game and click "Regenerate data.sav" button

Q: I don't understand X thing?

A: Go to main menu/pause menu and open click "Help" button to open Help window, you can look up the issue you're having a problem with.

Q: Will the game be on Steam one day?

A: The game will get in Steam eventually, but the game is still quite unfinished so it will take some time to polish it for Steam release.

Summary:

Being an ongoing project, Voices Of The Void has some rough edges—occasional bugs, limited narrative development, and interface quirks may be encountered. However, frequent updates from the developer and an engaged community point to continued improvement and expansion.