
A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery. Explore solar systems, harvest resources, construct outposts, and face hazards in the challenging universe of The Banished Vault.
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Survive a journey across space in the Auriga Vault, an interstellar gothic monastery crewed by the last remaining exiles of a terrible disaster. Explore hostile solar systems, construct outposts, and craft precious materials to keep your crew alive. During the long hibernation between suns, expand the knowledge and ability of your exiles, and delay the arrival of The Gloom.
The Banished Vault is a run-based strategy game of solar system exploration, resource and crew management, and outpost construction.
Procedurally generated solar systems are displayed as realistic energy maps, with various bodies presenting different challenges. Plan your movements carefully, as engines and fuel behave according to a simplified but punishing rocket equation.
Construct outposts in orbit and on planet surfaces, considering the space needed, hazards, and accessibility. Resources are not tracked globally, and must be harvested and transported by your star ships from various locations to be used.
Search for artifacts to bring back to the Vault to unlock abilities for your exiles and new buildings to construct. Dice challenges test your exiles’ faith enduring hazards in a hostile universe.
Complete your run by surviving long enough to write the story of your Vault and transmit it home. The voyage is challenging - your exiles might die or be left behind. If you are reduced to one exile, the journey fails. No one can survive alone.
Unique gameplay and solar system presentation using simplified but realistic math.
Challenging and permanent decisions reward planning and careful play.
Tense risk management and exploration involving dice challenges and unforeseen outcomes.
Gorgeous hand-drawn art and board game style aesthetic.
A stark and hostile original setting inspired by Alien and The Book of the New Sun.
An extensive and carefully written manual that combines tutorial, game explanation, and reference guide.
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Languages: English
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
Very niche game that can be really fun once you get over the learning curve.
A little number-crunchy but sometimes that hits just right. Killer art too.
Very fun puzzle game. Very atmospheric- in every sense of the word.
The art and soundtrack are great. Running from the big bad will get to you as you make more and more calculations. It's a great little indie game!
This is my favorite video game!
its really good
This game pushes you to your limits. And it doesn't stop. A masterpiece.
Really cool ambiance, this is the closest game to the Interstellar feel (like the movie) I know. The art style is really good in my opinion. Every star system is big, complex, and unique. You can’t travel through any whole star system, so you have to choose wisely exactly where you go to get the most out of a star system before the gloom gets there. This really makes you feel like you are in a big universe. So far, I can’t stop finding new tactics; there seems to be a lot of depth. I don’t think the negatives of the game should stop anyone from playing, but there are things that are probably not for everyone’s taste, such as the planning far a head required. You can easily make mistakes that ruin all your plans, causing you to have to redo the whole star system. Personally, I like the planning towards long-term goals part, and generally I don’t find it takes too long to redo things when you make a mistake, and it’s good to learn to avoid mistakes in general in life. The tutorial and initiation process is not superb. You just have to read a long manual, and really annoyingly you can’t play and look at the manual at the same time. feature or anything. It took me a while to realise buildings could be rotated. I don’t like that it’s so easy to click “next turn” and lose a turn because of it, with no quick undo Overal though it's a good game the gameplay is innovative the graphics are innovative. To me it's a new experience. Just for that it's worth a lot.
A very unique and challenging management game. I really enjoyed this game and would highly recommend.
I love a hard strategy game and this is a GOOD single-player E-boardgame. Good vibe, DEEP strategies. Space feels perilous with unseen dangers, and I plan for an engaging 10 minutes on every system entry. The mechanics and variations are NOT AS RICH as modern survival/resource management games such as Frost Punk, i.e. a good 15 hours should be all you get.
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