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Play Overview
Heaven's Vault (2019) is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals. Your choices can open or close vast swathes of investigative opportunities. In turn, this directs the branching narrative in different ways. Intelligent guesswork is required to translate a large number of inscriptions while deciphering the motivations of those around you. An ingenious timeline documents every move, and a brief synopsis each time you start playing keeps things accessible even to infrequent players.
Like real archaeology, you need multiple runs through the game to fully decipher the language and the artifices you discover. Revisiting in this way, after completing the game, sheds new light on the importance and meaning of what you discover while exploring.
It’s a unique and meticulous mystery-solving experience, worth playing not only for a branching story and interactive puzzles, but in how much it trusts and empowers the player to follow (unless they get side-tracked) the complex and mature narrative.
There is also a two-part novel series penned by the game's narrative designer, Jon Ingold. This novelization retells the game's narrative, delving more broadly into the mysteries of the Nebula and more deeply into the backstories of protagonist Aliya Elasra and her robot companion, Six. Each book is about 300 pages and available in hard or soft cover.
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Heaven's Vault 4 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 8 weeks ago.
Like real archaeology, you need multiple runs through the game to fully decipher the language and the artifices you discover. Revisiting in this way, after completing the game, sheds new light on the importance and meaning of what you discover while exploring.
It’s a unique and meticulous mystery-solving experience, worth playing not only for a branching story and interactive puzzles, but in how much it trusts and empowers the player to follow (unless they get side-tracked) the complex and mature narrative.
There is also a two-part novel series penned by the game's narrative designer, Jon Ingold. This novelization retells the game's narrative, delving more broadly into the mysteries of the Nebula and more deeply into the backstories of protagonist Aliya Elasra and her robot companion, Six. Each book is about 300 pages and available in hard or soft cover.
Our examiner, Jo Robertson, first checked Heaven's Vault 4 years ago. It was re-examined by Thom Robertson and updated 8 weeks ago.
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Play Style
This is an Adventure and Communication game with Brain Game, Narrative, Point-and-Click, Puzzle, Sequencing and Traversal elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Duration
Play Time: This game will take between 17 hours and 25 and a half hours to complete. The time to finish the game varies greatly because of its diverging nature but is around 18 hours. To linger and see everything, or replay to experience different avenues or missed characters, will take considerably longer.
You can access a Story+ mode after you have finished the game once. This enables all Ancient language translated to be carried over to the new game which can lead to new parts of the story and lore being discovered.
You can access a Story+ mode after you have finished the game once. This enables all Ancient language translated to be carried over to the new game which can lead to new parts of the story and lore being discovered.
Benefits
Age Ratings
Skill Level
10+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. You need patience and persistence to dig into the story and characters here. The language construction aspect of the game needs skills like pattern matching and sequencing.
Game Details
Release Date: 16/04/2019, updated in 2021
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Adventure, Communication (Brain Game, Narrative, Point-and-Click, Puzzle, Sequencing and Traversal)
Accessibility: 20 features
Components: 3D Third-Person
Developer: heavensvault (@heavensvault)
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