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An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
Heaven's Vault is a adventure, narrative and mystery game
developed and published by inkle Ltd.
Released on April 16th 2019 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 2,209 reviews of which 1,889 were positive and 320 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 21.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.00€ on Gamivo.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 or later
- Processor: SSE2 instruction set support
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2+ Gb of vram
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Not recommended for Intel HD GPUs
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The gameplay is unpolished af. But everything that has to do with the language puzzles is absolutely incredible
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A game about archaeology that doesn't involve murdering people? What a concept! Joking aside this is deep and atmospheric, and quite unique. Reminds me of Ursula K Le Guin's Hainish sci-fi books, and of The Dispossessed in particular.
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Initially I was wondering why this game doesn't get more hype despite all the praise, and then I quickly realised that all the other reviews are correct: the travel mechanics of this game is frustrating. Hand sailing makes sense in new unknown waters, but on known and fully mapped out paths? I don't think anyone would be interested in the exact minute details of Indiana Jones' 8+ hours flight to the country of his exciting new dig location. Please just give us the exciting new dig location directly. Regarding storytelling, I'm a big fan of the non-linear narrative so no complaints about that from me. The MC's personality is definitely an acquired taste ( she's so acerbic bordering on hostile so often that it's off-putting for me ). While this game is not mainly a story about MC's life, I'd appreciate a few more breadcrumbs about why some characters aren't welcoming to her . Without the background information on the characters, the dialogues feel very choppy sometimes. Gameplay aspect here is (personally speaking) not bad, although a non-automatic dialogue would be great. I'm easily distracted and have missed several dialogue lines due to autoplay. Overall I'd still recommend this, although not for everyone. The game's linguistic puzzle is very enjoyable for me. The plot is intriguing enough to suffer through the travel mechanics. It's better to come into this with the knowledge that it's not a fast game, and that choices do matter. Just like real life, some decisions are final. Reincarnation is a big deal in this game, so maybe you'll have more luck in your next life playthrough. If they fix the whole travelling thing then I guess people will do NG+ a lot more and complain less about the lack of checkpoints save/load .
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Heaven's Vault is a good game that could've been a great game. The story is engaging. Actually, piecing together the story by uncovering artefacts, learning new words and exploring lost sites is what the game is about and what it excels at. The art is beautiful. But some aspects weight the game down. One of the main culprits I'd say is the sailing. There are space rivers you sail on. They flow in a certain direction and you can't go against their current. And they are slow. If you miss a connection you can waste minutes going back. Sailing them will be a considerable portion of your playtime and it gets old fast. It takes too long to go from place to place, sailing controls are unresponsive. In the last few hours I stopped exploring for ruins and shipwrecks, because here exploring is boring. And this takes me to the next problem... By the end the story looses steam. You progress by finding artefacts that point you to new sites which will have new artefacts to further direct your journey. There's a point where I feel the influx of artefacts sputtered which means progression slowed. By the end I just wanted to finish the story, I couldn't be bothered to explore the rivers because doing so was boring. The last area picked up the slack, but the game lost me for a few hours. Just be warned. The third problem is the confusing UI. Sometimes you leave a planet when you don't mean to. When decyphering longer sentences, you''ll be forced to scroll a long list of possible words. You can strike wrong ones, but why they aren't removed entirely I don't know. By the end, some really long sentences I just couldn't be bothered to translate with the burdensome interface. You have a dictionary of learned words, but can't directly consult it. You have an inventory of artefacts, but also can't access it to see what you should focus on. Little things like that. To close, the game is definitely worth playing and maybe even replaying (there's a NG+ but what it involves I don't know). At its core it successfully gamefies archeology and philology (the study of languages) and as a Tolkien fan I can appreciate the connection between culture, history and language that is so well portrayed here. But it leaves much to be desired in many other 'gamey' aspects. If you're a fan of adventure games or visual novels, this probably won't matter much.
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ride out the clunky gameplay, you get used to its quirks. Everything you discover makes the story richer and deeper. It's simply addictive to uncover more. I can't wait to play it again. I already am!
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Heaven's Vault is currently priced at 21.99€ on Steam.
Heaven's Vault is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 21.99€ on Steam.
Heaven's Vault received 1,889 positive votes out of a total of 2,209 achieving a rating of 8.20.
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Heaven's Vault was developed and published by inkle Ltd.
Heaven's Vault is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Heaven's Vault is not playable on MacOS.
Heaven's Vault is not playable on Linux.
Heaven's Vault is a single-player game.
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Heaven's Vault does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
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Online players
16
Developer
inkle Ltd
Publisher
inkle Ltd
Release
16 Apr 2019
Platforms
Remote Play
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