Games Like VHOLUME: BABBDI, Mirror's Edge & More

Start With BABBDI (It’s Free)

Before VHOLUME, Nathan Grange, Léonard Lemaitre and Niels Tiercelin released BABBDI — a free, short, brutalist city-exploration game that became a cult hit. It is the most direct “game like VHOLUME” that exists: same architectural language, same melancholic emptiness, same movement-as-expression philosophy, zero cost. If VHOLUME grabbed you and you haven’t played BABBDI, that’s your next hour, and it’s on Steam for nothing.

Press coverage of VHOLUME leads with exactly this lineage — Rock Paper Shotgun’s launch-window piece called it the “Babbdi dev’s movement-centric, brutalist” next great parkour game.

The Obvious Ancestor: Mirror’s Edge

Google’s own related-search data pairs VHOLUME with Mirror’s Edge, and the comparison is earned: first-person parkour where momentum is the resource, environments read as routes, and the city itself is the antagonist. Mirror’s Edge (2008) and Catalyst (2016) remain the reference points for VHOLUME’s flow — VHOLUME swaps their sterile white for oppressive concrete and adds a medal/time-attack structure.

The Tradition It Names: KZ / Kreedz

VHOLUME literally ships a level called kreedz — an homage to Counter-Strike’s KZ (Kreedz Climbing) mod scene, two decades of community climb maps built on precise jumps and route mastery. If the vertical B-Sides are your favorite part of VHOLUME, KZ servers (and standalone spiritual successors in the Source movement scene) are the deep end of that pool.

Modern Movement Games Worth Your Time

• Neon White — the same “author time → medal → leaderboard obsession” loop, in card-shooter form.
• Ghostrunner — first-person momentum with lethal stakes; harsher, faster, less contemplative.
• Clustertruck / SEUM — pure time-attack absurdity for when you want the racing loop without the melancholy.
• NaissanceE — not a parkour game, but the closest match for VHOLUME’s monumental-architecture awe; slow, strange and free.

What Makes VHOLUME Itself

None of these combine all three of VHOLUME’s pillars — momentum parkour, brutalist melancholy, and a bureaucratic story about ration tickets — which is why the “games like” search is so common: there isn’t a true substitute. For more on what the game actually contains, see the level list and our review.