Developer Fatbot Games have announced the release date of steampunk first-person dungeon-crawling RPG Vaporum: Lockdown.
A prequel to 2017’s Vaporum, players venture through steampunk dungeons. Learn the mysteries of the world, solve puzzles, and use gadgets, weapons, and synergizing armor to survive. The main characters are also fully voiced.
Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One had previously been announced as platforms, but no update on their release date was announced. Regarding the PlayStation 4 version, the game’s official Twitter account tweeted “Not sure about the timeframe though. We’ll be porting the game ourselves this time, and for a small team like ours, we have to prioritize.”
You can find the release date announcement trailer below.
You can find the rundown (via Steam) below.
Vaporum: Lockdown is a prequel to the award-winning steampunk dungeon crawler Vaporum. It is a grid-based, single-player, single-character game, seen from a first-person perspective in an original steampunk setting, and inspired by old-school games like Dungeon Master I and II, the Eye of the Beholder series, and the more recent Legend of Grimrock I and II.
Vaporum: Lockdown follows the story of Ellie Teller, a scientist who is a part of a mysterious research project in the middle of an ocean. Following disastrous events, she struggles to survive and escape the tower of Arx Vaporum.
- First person real-time combat
- Unique Stop Time Mode
- Puzzles and level-wide objectives
- Gadget-based RPG system
- Lots of exploration, loot, and character customization
- Mysterious storyline filled with secrets
- Fully voiced main characters
- Immersive steampunk setting
You will encounter nasty enemies with unique strengths and attack patterns. To beat them, you will have to employ a broad array of weapons, gadgets, upgrades, and smart tactics.
Fortunately, there’s plenty of powerful toys to play with. Many different weapon types, each with a specific use, synergistic armor pieces, gadgets that allow you to raise your own army of underlings or to manipulate the battlefield, boosters, and more.
Prepare to solve many kinds of puzzles and hazards, using various interactive elements, which will test both your wits and reflexes. The overall storyline will have you piecing together a solution to the main obstacle, where the individual pieces are spread over several levels. You will learn a lot about the world and its inhabitants through voiced dialogs, phonodiaries, and written notes.
Vaporum: Lockdown launches September 15th on Windows PC, Linux, Mac (all via Steam), and early 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.