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Press release:
Stuttgart, Germany – 9 June 2022.
Strictly Limited Games is delighted to announce that they will publish an exclusive limited edition release of the critically-acclaimed “Heaven’s Vault” for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 (PS4), in partnership with the award-winning developers at inkle.

Praised for its narrative depth and gameplay around exploration and deciphering an ancient language, Heaven’s Vault is already a timeless classic. The boxed release now secures a permanent physical legacy for Heaven’s Vault and includes unique collectibles transcribed with never-before-seen Ancient text, well-aligned with the theme of archaeology in the game. Pre-orders will kick off on June 12th, at 12 AM CEST (midnight) only at Strictly Limited Games.

Nominated for the BAFTA, winner of the Independent Games Festival in the category “Best Narrative” and honored several times as one of the top 10 games of 2019 (The New Yorker, Mashable, GamesIndustry.biz), Heaven’s Vault is an adventure game unlike any other. Every choice counts, as the adaptive narrative reacts to your decisions and the game expands on every replay, unlocking deeper secrets.

About Heaven’s Vault:
Welcome to the Nebula: a strange network of moons linked by rivers in space, where ancient robots coexist with humans. Its ancient history has long been forgotten and only fragments remain, written in a lost hieroglyphic language.

Join archaeologist Aliya Elasra and her robot sidekick Six on a trail of discoveries that will lead to the very edge of the world and to the ancient secret of Heaven’s Vault.

Ancient, the hieroglyphic language at the center of Heaven’s Vault, is a full language created for the game that consists of around 3,000 words. A language that an active fan community is continually discovering, discussing, and even expanding beyond the scope of the game.

But it’s not only the language that makes Heaven’s Vault special. Progress through the game in any order you choose; the game’s fully adaptive narrative remembers every choice you make, every discovery, and every action you take, influencing what happens next.

Meet a diverse cast of characters who remember everything you say, and whose attitudes toward you will change based on how you act. Who will you trust? What will you find? What will you risk? You will have to decide for yourself!

Features:

Find artifacts and translate their hieroglyphic inscriptions to piece together the history of the world.

Make tough decisions and interact with a large cast of characters who remember everything you say.

Sail Aliya’s ship, the Nightingale, through an open world of fast-flowing space rivers and lost moons.

Freely explore a variety of locations, from ruined palaces to desert moons, market towns, and farming villages.

Marvel at the unique art style, blending beautiful hand-drawn 2D art with 3D environments.

Play it again – Heaven’s Vault is highly replayable thanks to massively flexible choice-driven gameplay and translation puzzles that expand on every playthrough, revealing new secrets.

The two unique limited editions for Heaven’s Vault are available for pre-order exclusively via the Strictly Limited Games online shop.

The Limited Edition is limited to 1,900 copies for Nintendo Switch and 900 for PS4, at a price of 29.99€, including a colorful game manual.

The Special Limited Edition is limited to 900 copies for Nintendo Switch and 400 for PS4, for 49.99€, including lots of additional collectibles:

Special Limited Edition Box

Colorful Game Manual

Original Soundtrack with previously unreleased bonus tracks

10 Puzzle Cards

Timeline of the Nebula

Archaeologist’s Notebook

Bookmark

4 transparent Stickers

Both editions can also be purchased as an exclusive bundle with the two official Heaven’s Vault novels by Jon Ingold, inkle’s narrative director. Only 100 of these bundles will be available for Nintendo Switch and PS4 respectively.

About Strictly Limited Games
Strictly Limited Games is a German publisher based near Stuttgart, specialized in releasing a curated selection of digital download-only games in exclusive collectible physical editions for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Nintendo Switch.

The company was founded in 2017 by Dennis Mendel, a former scholar for game studies and advisor at Fraunhofer Institute, and Benedict Braitsch.

Both passionate collectors with a combined collection of over 7.000 digital and physical games for all console generations, their intention is to form an opposite pole to the current trend of digital-only releases. All collectors’ editions are available exclusively at Strictly Limited Games online store www.strictlylimitedgames.com.

About inkle
inkle is an independent developer of narrative games founded in 2011 by Joseph Humfrey and Jon Ingold. Over the last decade, they’ve won awards and nominations from TIME Magazine, BAFTA, IGF, Apple, DICE, the UK Writer’s Guild and more for their sophisticated storytelling, ranging from the Jules Verne-inspired globe-trotting adventures of 80 Days to the reverse-murder-mystery Overboard! and the archaeological depths of Heaven’s Vault. Underpinning all their games is their powerful narrative engine, ink, which is used by studios both major and indie around the world.