A lean, mean single-player shooter that remembers gunplay is a craft. Short campaign, but every level is sharpened to a point.
Not every shooter needs a live-service roadmap and a battle pass. Null Signal is a single-player campaign with a beginning, a middle and an end, and it is all the better for its modesty. Cold Harbor Games clearly cares about the feel of a weapon in your hands — the recoil, the reload, the weight of a reload cancelled a half-second too early.
Levels are compact and hand-authored, each built around one or two ideas that it explores fully before moving on. There is a purity to it. The story is thin and the run time short, but nothing here overstays its welcome, and the moment-to-moment shooting is among the most satisfying we have played this year.
