Vaporum: Lockdown
Fatbot Games, s. r. o. · 2020 · RPG, Indie, Action, Adventure, Dungeon Crawler
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Very Positive84% · 28568Metacritic
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About Vaporum: Lockdown
About
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.
Key Features
- 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.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Vaporum 2 is a solid dungeon crawler that improves on combat and level design compared to the original, with well-crafted steampunk aesthetics and engaging puzzle mechanics. However, the sequel introduces timing-based puzzles that some find frustrating due to difficulty distinguishing between incorrect solutions and execution problems, though others enjoy the space-temporal puzzle design and appreciate the reduced combat frequency compared to its predecessor.
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 result is that it becomes hard to tell if you have the correct solution for a puzzle and just need to execute it better within a strict timing window, or if your solution is wrong. This makes the puzzles generally more frustrating even when the solutions are still relatively simple.2 found this helpful
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 all. Puzzles can be a bit obtuse at times, but none of them are super frustrating - just pay attention to your environments and learn the game's interesting mechanics.1 found this helpful
10/10 Great fun.
The space-temporal puzzles were just the right amount of difficult to enjoy solving them without looking at solutions online. Combat easier than original Vaporum, but the time pause really helps those difficult multi opponent fights.
There are a lot of good puzzles, and a bit less fights than in previous one. And there are a lot of notes, that slowing the pacing, but you can always skip them. And it is still is a good dungeon crawler. So if you like first person dungeon crawlers with moderate amount of puzzles you should definitely try this one out.
Nice.
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