inkle·Released Apr 16, 2019·Single player
Explore the lost ruins of the Nebula, read ancient inscriptions, and uncover a forgotten past in this narrative archaeological science-fiction adventure game from the creators of 80 Days.
This adventure game centers around teaching you a hieroglyphic language and packages it into a fascinating world.
A fascinating, fantastical world let down by plodding pacing.
An ambitious narrative adventure that mixes fun lore with fiddly mechanics.
Heaven’s Vault asks players to uncover the language and history of a lost culture
Heaven's Vault will satisfy budding archaeologists and linguistic fanatics in fits and starts, but the overall experience that brings those mechanics together leaves a lot to be desired. Alongside technical frustrations and tedious movement between locations, this is hardly a game we can recommend with any sort of confidence.
Like 80 Days, Inkle's previous game, Heaven's Vault is a piece of interactive storytelling that drops you into a dense …
The thing is, the problems are there. I don’t know if I can recommend this to someone who isn’t a word nerd. But at the same time, what Inkle have achieved in Heaven’s Vault is tremendous. I don’t know what to compare it to, because there isn’t anything.
Unravel the past in this ace archaeology adventure.
