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We're thrilled to announce a new entry to the Heaven's Vault universe -- a tabletop game of translation and roleplaying, coming to Kickstarter early next year ! Designed in collaboration with Graham Walmsley (Cthulu Dark, Cosmic Dark), the game sees four new protagonists explorin
Today, the Heaven's Vault sequence reaches its end. What began as a game expanded into a duology of novels, The Loop and The Vault , which deepened and extended the game's world. Last year we went further with the release of Book 3: The Flood , which picks up events after the end
It's Heaven's Vault's 7th birthday today! To celebrate we wanted to share a first look at the next HV-related release from us, which will be the fourth (and final) book in the novellisation sequence. Here's the gorgeous new cover: The book ties up all the mysteries from Book 3 --
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80 Days and A Highland Song developers Inkle once pitched a Doctor Who game to the BBC, narrative director and writer Jon Ingold has revealed in a Bluesky post . While the BBC never responded to their overtures, the pitch became the basis for Inkle's very excellent and bodacious
80 Days may still be the best-known game from narrative maestros Inkle Studios. But the developer's most ambitious game is probably Heaven's Vault , a sci-fi archaeological adventure about piecing together an ancient alien language... Read more.
Heaven's Vault has opened. The waters have risen. The flood is here . New moons mean new discoveries and new secrets. But while the Nebula is changing, so is Aliya herself... Go beyond the game with the new Heaven's Vault novel, which is out now, in print and ebook form. If you'r
The third Heaven's Vault novel has a launch date: 29th May . Rejoin Aliya and Six as they explore the flooded Nebula. A place of old stories and new secrets... The book launches worldwide on the 29th May, but if you want to get your hands on it early, you can SIGN UP HERE to be n
Huge news! After several years absence, we're returning to the Nebula next month in Heaven's Vault: The Flood , an original novel that continues the story from where the game -- and Books 1 & 2 -- left off. The waters have risen. Elboreth is flooded, the Nightingale has been
Good news! We've added support for Steam Cloud, so your saves will now synchronise correctly between different devices. Enjoy!
FIVE YEARS ago today, we released Heaven's Vault, which was designed to be our follow-up to our previous narrative game, 80 Days . The game started from a core idea: SPACE ARCHAEOLOGY, that we felt we hadn't seen before; and translation as a mechanic, which we had seen in the 198
Two years ago we turned the story of Heaven's Vault into a two-part novel, that reimagines the story and world of the game from the ground up. It's now available in ebook format directly from us . The novels are a mixture of a retelling and reimagining of the game's story, going
Last year, we turned the story of Heaven's Vault into a two-part novel. But apparently books don't have to be on paper but can be electronic as well. Who knew?!? Thanks to this amazing discovery, we're now able to put up the first chapter of Book 1 as an ePub, so you can join Ali
It's Solstice Day in the Nebula so all this week Heaven's Vault is on sale, and you can get 15% off the two-part Heaven's Vault novelisation as well: just enter the code NEBULA at the checkout. The secrets of the Nebula await!
If you've been playing the hit word game Wordle you don't need us to tell you how it works, but this twist on the formula - designed and built by a member of the Heaven's Vault community - is a whole other level of challenge. This is Vaultle . Can you guess the Ancient word - usi
We just announced our next released: called A Highland Song , it's the story of teenager Moira McKinnon who lives on the edge of the Scottish Highlands and has decided to run away. A mix of branching narrative, 2.5D side-scroller, survival and rhythm elements, it also features th
For one week only, Empress Enkei herself is granting a 10% discount on the two-part Heaven's Vault novelisation. Just enter the code ENKEI at the checkout. This includes the new linen-bound, dust-jacket hardbacks! The secrets of the Nebula await! (Offer ends on the 20th Jan.)
Books don't come with review pages, but over on the inkle discord people have been receiving, reading and reacting to their copies of the Heaven's Vault book. Here's what they said. - "Gorgeous and glorious and transcendent!" - "The dialogues! The musings! So many wondrous though