Heaven's Vault
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15.6h
- Value
- $1.60/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2+ Gb of vram, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in May 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 69 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 12 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Rise of the Golden Idol ($13.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Tacoma ($19.99, scores 49).
Critics scored it 76. Players sit 8 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 9 of the 566 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 132 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 15.6 hours. Doing everything runs 38, 2.4 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
91% start to 28% 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
24 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 20:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
4/10 (personal score) 7/10 (objective score) Not a bad game, just not for me. This is not a puzzle game. It's got some puzzle elements, but it's really not that. It's a slow walking simulator crossed with a visual novel. Playing this game reminded me of watching those old cartoons, where all the images are just stills instead of being actually animated. There are some people who will LOVE that. I just wasn't one of...
What drew me to Heaven's Vault was the promise of working on language puzzles, but what kept me playing was my curiosity. In the vein of games like Outer Wilds or Tunic, the protagonist in Heaven's Vault is the world, and the main objective is to string together a coherent narrative from fragmented and limited information. You control Aliya, an archaeologist, through point-and-click interactions in an open world...
The general concept and storyline are pretty good, however there are so many annoying things in here that really ruin the experience. On of the most infuriating one is that there is no way to fast travel or even just run. So you spend an unbelievable huge percentage of the game walking really really slowly somewhere, or driving somewhere with your ship. And god beware you accidentally take a wrong turn with the ship...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Heaven's Vault scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/774201/heaven-s-vaultReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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