Inkle, developer of the superb Steve Jackson’s Sorcery adaptations and Verne-inspired 80 Days, has announced that its enormously ambitious archaeological adventure Heaven’s Vault will be coming to PS4 and PC on April 16th.
Heaven’s Vault is described as a “huge, incredibly flexible” narrative game that “seamlessly, fluidly” adapts to players’ choices as their story unfolds. II follows the adventures of archeologist Aliya Elasra, who, with a little help from her robot companion Six, must plot a course across a world known as the Nebula in search of a missing academic.
As with Inkle’s previous interactive-fiction-style games, Heaven’s Vault is a story-focussed, non-linear adventure, that’s heavy on the (invariably well-written) text – albeit this time expanded out into a fully-3D, and strikingly designed, world.
