Heaven's Vault

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.

82 16 April 2019

Adventure Indie Point-and-click Puzzle Science fiction

Heaven's Vault is an adventure developed by inkle, released 16 April 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 16 hrs to finish.

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What Heaven's Vault is

Heaven's Vault is an adventure game developed by inkle and released in 2019. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Aliya Elasra is an archaeologist, exploring a strange region of space called the Nebula with her robot sidekick Six, hoping to uncover the secrets of the long-forgotten past. When a roboticist from the University of Iox goes missing, Aliya begins a trail of discoveries that will lead to the very edge of her world - and the ancient secret of Heaven's Vault. Sail an open-world of fast flowing space-rivers, discover lost ruins, explore ancient sites, find artefacts and translate their strange hieroglyphics. Piece together the history of the world and an entire ancient language. From the creators of massively-branching interactive adventure 80 Days, Heaven's Vault is not your usual linear…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 44 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Heaven's Vault holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 16 hrs.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for SSE2 instruction set support, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2+ Gb of vram. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB.

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What it launched against

Heaven's Vault launched on 16 April 2019, within three weeks of Days Gone, Anno 1800, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced and Katana Zero. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Days Gone, Anno 1800, Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced, Katana Zero.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Heaven's Vault — frequently asked questions

When did Heaven's Vault come out?

Heaven's Vault was released on 16 April 2019 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Heaven's Vault?

At minimum, Heaven's Vault needs SSE2 instruction set support, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2+ Gb of vram graphics, 5 GB available space of storage.

How long does it take to beat Heaven's Vault?

The main story of Heaven's Vault takes around 16 hrs.

How many GB is Heaven's Vault?

The PC version needs about 5 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("5 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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