Bastion by Supergiant Games.
I’m actually not sure how precisely it happened, but a good decade ago as a teenager I somehow stumbled upon a torrent of the game. I didn’t really know anything about the game, but I distinctly remember reading the description and looking at the art and being like “this is so cool”, and then being like “this is even cooler” again when it turned out Rucks basically narrates the entire game with that deep hopeful voice.
And that was that; my early gaming continued with things like Hawken, Detective Grimoire and Machinarium, but Bastion definitely holds a special place in my heart.
More than a decade later, I’ve played (bought) and replayed basically all of Supergiant’s games several times. Such a wonderful studio. Darren Korb is a fantastic composer as well, just doesn’t miss a single vibe :)
It had a fantastic gritty futuristic vibe for sure! It’s a shame the recent reboot, well… basically failed at delivering that old Hawken experience. Here’s hoping the old game gets magically revived someday (and I must agree, a VR port would be very cool).