Vaporum: Lockdown
Fair · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $3.59, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2020. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 13.3h 23h to 100%
- Value
- $0.27/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 320 positive
Full price
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Vaporum: Lockdown, a prequel to Vaporum, is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting, inspired by old-school classics of the genre. Follow the story of Ellie Teller, a scientist struggling to survive disastrous events that happened in the tower of Arx Vaporum.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 400 series 512 MB video card or AMD equivalent, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.59, set in May 2026. It has been discounted 74 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 4 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FIGHT KNIGHT ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing ($14.99, scores 60).
More about Vaporum: Lockdown
Critics scored it 68. Players sit 16 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 287 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to July 2026.
The drop-off
70% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 04:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
My review is pretty much the same as the 1st game, except I liked this one a bit more in regards to the level design. *Original review: Pretty good Wizardry-like dungeon crawler with a steampunk aesthetic. I'm not generally a steampunk fan, but even with that, this game is well-crafted and the visual style fits the game style, and it truly feels like a fresh new take on a gameplay style I love. Not a bad game, at...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Vaporum: Lockdown is a confident and carefully refined entry in the modern revival of classic first-person dungeon crawlers, offering a thoughtful blend of tactical combat, environmental puzzles, and steampunk worldbuilding. Developed and published by Fatbot Games, s. r. o., the game functions as a standalone prequel to the original Vaporum, but it is structured in a way that makes it fully approachable even for...
I highly recommend the original Vaporum but I don't really recommend this one. The combat feels slightly improved, but the real issue is the puzzle design. If it was just more puzzles than the first game that'd be one thing, but the issue here is that the puzzles are designed differently with many of them incorporating timing mechanics which weren't present in the previous game, at least not to such an extent. The...
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Cite this score
Vaporum: Lockdown scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1161880/vaporum-lockdownReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.