Once the boy reaches the end of his journey, he will find himself into the same forest area he was in at the very beginning and this made up some ideas about the religious nature of Limbo/Purgatory. Playdead, however, intentionally made an open ending in order to give the players the chance to find their own interpretation and make up theories, just like many other video games and books.
LIMBO got many positive reviews due to its design, but also aroused a few doubts regarding the abrupt ending and the lack of significant plot. The game has no background music at all, there only is a minimal ambient sound to recreate the perfect horror genre. The whole environment is black and white with some volumetric lighting and uses a grain texture for a film effect. Playdead named this game style “trial and death” and even inserted some gruesome scenes regarding the boy’s death if a method fails. There are no instructions nor help texts, since the player is supposed to try again and again before finding the correct solution. LIMBO is a 2D sidescroller with interactive objects and environments. The boy manages to found the little girl in the end, but she runs away for no apparent reason the first time and then seems to be startled the second, the game’s ending is left completely open for this reason. A young boy awakens into a black forest on the “edge of hell”, starting a creepy journey seeking his missing sister and also encountering dead bodies scattered here and there, dangerous traps, giant spiders and puzzles to solve in order to proceed. The plot is not exactly clear when you start the game for the first time. The Xbox One and PS4 versions respectively came out in 20.
After the year-long Xbox 360 exclusivity, Playdead decided to port LIMBO also on Microsoft Windows and PS3. Released back in 2010 as a Xbox Live Arcade exclusive and later made available with a game pack in 2011. The LIMBO game, developed by independent studio Playdead, is a dark/horror puzzle-platform title (single player) available for PC, Xbox 360, PS3, Xbox One, PS4, PS Vita, iOS, Android and Wii U.
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