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Editors’ Review
Vault is an exploration-based adventure game that allows you to navigate a mysterious island using a primitive drone. The core gameplay revolves around capturing images to perceive the environment, as the drone has no live video feed and a limited skillset. You can locate a hidden artifact while avoiding a guardian present on the island.
Vault's environment includes open-world areas with clues that reveal past events, creating a narrative conveyed through surroundings. Gameplay combines a first-person perspective with drone-like controls, requiring precise movement and strategic positioning to progress. The core elements include environmental interaction, artifact retrieval, and evading the guardian.
Navigate a world unseen
Vault allows you to control a primitive drone equipped with basic movement abilities and a limited set of tools. Navigation is achieved through positional adjustments and the capture of still images. These images provide environmental information that substitutes for live video feeds, allowing you to identify platforms, obstacles, and points of interest. The drone’s constraints restrict direct interaction, emphasizing movement planning and observational strategies throughout the island.
The game world consists of a small open environment with scattered interactive elements that reveal the island’s history. Each location contains environmental clues and artifacts that contribute to the overarching narrative. You can traverse terrain while avoiding the island’s guardian, whose presence imposes spatial and tactical considerations. The combination of first-person and drone-like perspectives enables varied observational angles for exploration and artifact identification.
Artifact retrieval and progression are governed by environmental navigation, obstacle management, and image-based information gathering. The guardian introduces a spatial hazard requiring evasion techniques. Visual storytelling through environmental details provides insight into the island’s past. You can also complete objectives by locating the artifact, avoiding threats, and returning to the starting point. However, the drone has limited abilities and it lacks live video feed.
Pros
- Image-based environmental observation
- First-person and drone perspective integration
- Small open-world island with narrative elements
- Artifact retrieval objectives
Cons
- Limited drone abilities
- No live video feed
- Restricted direct interaction
- Small open-world map
Bottom Line
A tactical test of observation
Vault includes a primitive drone exploration system with a limited skillset, a small open-world island, and artifact retrieval objectives. Core functions focus on image-based environmental observation, first-person and drone-like control mechanics, and navigation hazards imposed by a guardian. The game emphasizes spatial reasoning, environmental interaction, and observational planning. However, the drone has limited abilities, and it lacks a live video feed.
What’s new in version 1.0.4.
- Updated First Person Movement
- Select drop point prompt is hidden when only one drop point is available
- Drone now responds to getting stuck on terrain
- Fixed 'help' command
- Changed drone font
- Changed document functionality
- Fixed notes don't save
- Fixed switching modules inputs command
- Various minor adjustments