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Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!
Vessel is a puzzle, indie and platformer game
developed by Strange Loop Games
and published by IndiePub.
Released on March 01st 2012 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 796 reviews of which 699 were positive and 97 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.94€ on G2A.
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- OS *: Windows 7 / Vista / XP
- Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
- Memory: 2GB System RAM
- Hard Disk Space: 1.5GB
- Video Card: ATi Radeon HD 2400 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or better (Shader Model 3.0 needs to be supported)
- DirectX®: 9.0c
- Sound: DirectX compatible
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Quite possibly the best puzzle-platformer ever made, and it holds up as well as I write this in 2025 as it did 13 years ago when i first played it on 360. Using cores and combining them with liquid to build atomatons and effectively generate Rube Goldberg devices leads to some of the most satisfying puzzle-solving I've ever experienced. This game is dirt cheap and worth every penny, I cannot recommend it enough.
Terrific game! Lots of new puzzle ideas that I've never seen before. Good controls, graphics and music. If you like puzzle games / figuring things out [ like Myst and Riven etc. ], then this game is for you! 2 thumbs up / 5 stars / 10 out of 10 ... you get the idea. The game is priced very low, but the game is long. You won't be disappointed.
[H1]An Interesting Puzzle Platformer[/H1] Slightly-dated, but still fun. Pros • Fun with fluid physics • No need to manage a health gauge • Most puzzles in a zone can be solved out of order once visited Cons • Nozzle upgrades do help, but most aren't particularly necessary to advance through the game • Ladder jumping is a little weird • Some achievements are a little fidgety • No cloud saving Vessel is a pretty decent action-puzzle platformer that revolves around utilizing fluid physics and different amorphous machines called "Fluros". Different cores can give each Fluro a different behavior. Add different kinds of fluid available in the game and you can get some interesting results; there are actually a few puzzles where there may be a couple of different tactics may work to solve them. The general structure of the game is built around the platforming and solving puzzles to get machines working again. However, the game leans into the puzzle solving aspect a bit more with the fact that you can walk past most machines in a zone to work on another one and you can use a puzzle selection menu on the pause screen to quickly move to different puzzles in the zone that you've already visited. After a few puzzles you're able to build a sprayer that lets you suck up water into a tank and then spray it so that you can easily create Fluros further away from a source of materials as well as in places that aren't as accessible to your character. There are even a few puzzles where the solution requires you to use both of the sprayer's functions to solve them. You can look for "protoplasm" throughout the levels and collecting them will net you a few achievements as well as being useful for researching several upgrades. That said I found the most useful upgrades to be increases to the sprayer tank size and the "injector" shaped high-pressure nozzle. The injector-shaped nozzle charges up a shot of material large enough for one Fluro, puts the Fluro core that you have selected into the shot, and—upon release—lobs that shot in the direction you're aiming your sprayer; it actually allows for easier placement of Fluros in inaccessible locations without potentially wasting material or time when the puzzle requires good timing to solve it. I think that perhaps at some earlier stage of development these nozzles may have been more important, but that may have been scrapped as not having the right nozzle or an upgraded enough of a nozzle would gate the progress of the player and place more emphasis on searching for Protoplasm rather than just solving puzzles. Interestingly enough while the game is a puzzle game with some action-platforming, unlike a number of other games in the genre a lot of damage isn't instantly fatal. There's also no official damage gauge per se; it actually works a bit like Call of Duty's damage and health regeneration system where you'll see red haze around the edges of the screen which will get brighter and become fatal if you keep taking damage, but will fade away if you stop taking damage. Due to the nature of some of the puzzles this is rather appreciated as you can end up in a situation where it would be extremely frustrating if damage were instantly fatal. However, while the game is quite enjoyable, there are a few things that I felt probably needed more tuning. I think that character movement is generally well-tuned, but jumping off ladders is a little weird; and one part of the game requires you to jump between ladders to solve a puzzle. The game lets you walk off a ladder at any point so that you can fall and descend more quickly as well as jump off for the same reasons; but to jump a larger distance you have to walk off the ladder until you start to fall and then hit the jump button while holding the direction that you want to go. The other thing that I felt needed a little more tuning is the one nozzle that pushes you back a bit when using it; the fact that it's the only one that pushes you back suggests that it's meant to help with extending jumps and speeding up movement, but at the first level it doesn't seem to be useful enough for that purpose to suggest that upgrading to the second level would improve enough to make a difference. Also, there are a few achievements that just refused to activate until about the 3rd or 4th time meeting those conditions—and some of these had conditions that are fairly hard to meet in the first place. Also, the game, being from 2012 comes with tech limitations that are no fault of the developer. The liquid all has about the same viscosity regardless of being water or some kind of goo and this can feel a bit odd at times. There's also no cloud saving, so if you want to continue your game on a different device you'll have to copy it over manually or figure out some other save backup system. Overall the game is quite enjoyable, the puzzles have a decent variety, and just playing around with different Fluro cores and the fluid physics is fun in itself.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Vessel is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
No, Vessel is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Vessel received 699 positive votes out of a total of 796 achieving a rating of 8.28.
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Vessel was developed by Strange Loop Games and published by IndiePub.
Yes, Vessel is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Vessel is not playable on MacOS.
No, Vessel is not playable on Linux.
This information about Vessel is not available yet.
This information about Vessel is not available yet.
No, Vessel does not support VR.
Vessel is a single-player game.
No, Vessel does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Vessel does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Vessel does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Vessel is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Vessel.
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Last Updates| Steam data | 31 August 2026 01:10 UTC |
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| Steam price | 11 September 2026 18:44 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 11 September 2026 11:49 UTC |
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Strange Loop Games
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IndiePub
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