Vaporum
Vaporum is a grid-based, single-player, single-character dungeon crawler game, seen from a first-person perspective in an original steampunk setting, and inspired by old-school games like Dungeon Master I and…
Vaporum is an adventure developed by Fatbot Games, s. r. o., released 28 September 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. It currently starts at $3.99 at GOG.
What Vaporum is
Vaporum is an adventure game developed by Fatbot Games, s. r. o. and released in 2017. It was published by Merge Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Stranded on a small islet in the middle of an ocean, you enter a gigantic mechanical tower. Nothing makes sense to you, but it is all strangely familiar..."
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 59 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Vaporum holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.5 Ghz Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor or AMD equivalent, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 400 series 512 MB video card or AMD equivalent. 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 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Vaporum launched on 28 September 2017, within three weeks of Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Divinity: Original Sin 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Cuphead, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Vaporum yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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