Parkour Adventure VHOLUME Launches August 21
The demo's 'Overwhelmingly Positive' reception on Steam suggests strong early interest in a niche parkour genre title from a relatively unknown developer.
Key Facts
- VHOLUME will launch on Steam for PC on August 21, 2026.
- The game is a first-person parkour adventure set in a dystopian brutalist city ruled by a controlling ministry.
- A demo featuring four levels is available on Steam and has received an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' user review rating.
- The game supports solo play and multiplayer, including ghost data sharing between players.
Reporting from 2 sources: 4Gamer.net, Game Spark.
Developer IronEqual announced on July 22, 2026 that its first-person parkour adventure game VHOLUME will launch on Steam for PC on August 21. The game is set in a dystopian brutalist city ruled by an all-controlling ministry, where protagonist Robert must reclaim ration tickets taken from his family. Players navigate decadent buildings using jumping, dashing, climbing, and sliding, aiming to reach goals as fast as possible by finding shortcuts and optimizing routes. The game supports both solo play and multiplayer, allowing friends to play through levels together. Players can also view other players' ghost data or share their own to discover new routes. A demo featuring four levels is currently available on Steam, where user reviews have rated it 'Overwhelmingly Positive'.
IronEqual, the developer behind VHOLUME, has not previously released a major title, making the demo's reception a notable early signal. The game's setting draws on bureaucratic dystopia themes, with protagonist Robert navigating a devastated Afro-Eurasian capital under an omnipotent ministry. Movement mechanics emphasize speed and route optimization, with players encouraged to find shortcuts and compete against their own best times or against friends in multiplayer. The demo includes four levels, and the full game will support both solo and cooperative play across all levels. Ghost data sharing lets players study each other's paths to discover new routes.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.