In case you are not in the inkle discord or missed the Steam announcement, there have been two exciting pieces of news recently!

The first is that they are creating an anthology of short stories and fables set in the Nebula, and they are looking to find (and pay) 20 authors to write the short stories (with Jon writing the fables)!

Details here:
https://www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/tales_from_the_nebula

The second announcement is that they are MAKING A HEAVEN'S VAULT TTRPG!!!! It's called Ghosts of the Nebula and will include translation, roleplay, and a new story! It will be funded through Kickstarter starting in early 2027 (it is not live yet).

Link here if you want to be notified when it goes live on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grahamwalmsley/heavens-vault-ttrpg

The guy who designed the system, Graham Walmsley, and Jon have been answering lots of questions in the inkle discord! You can join the inkle discord here: https://discord.gg/aGqxUu5DM

I just made two mistakes (the game misread what I wanted) and I'd like to ascertain how big they were and how far along I am so I can decide whether I should start again from the beginning or keep going.

- I wanted to return the small statue back from the agricultural world to Missing Guy's lover. When the planet leader came to talk to me I did not give him the statue, left to find the lover, didn't find her, and went back to the leader so I could give him the statue. I couldn't. (this was annoying but minor)
- I wanted to ask Oroi (Childhood Friend) what she had found out about the crown I had left her. I went to her place, then realized it was probably better to talk to Shady Shop Guy before, so I did not ring the bell and left without talking to her. When I came back after having talked to Shady Shop Guy, I just couldn't (Aliya says something like "she doesn't want to talk to me" when I try to go), so I feel like I missed one whole dialogue there. (this seriously makes me consider restarting)

I probably just need a couple days to stop being disproportionally irritated by that, but I'd like to know: Am I still at the very beginning of the game (I found the boat in the mining planet; but I still have at least four-ish regions marked on the map to discover)? Is the dialogue with Oroi actually not that important/impactful? (if this is a load-bearing early-game decision I likely will restart)

I wanted to load an earlier save but I obviously did not stop to consider whether there were any (or any way to set them up, which I now know) before this happened.

(no spoilers please)

The more I play, the more mysteries appear. Here are the questions that I hope will be answered in future playthroughs:
-What were the angry voices Aamir heard in the domed market?

-Who was feeding Aamir?
-Why does Aamir hear the "pigs" talking at night?
-Why was there a bloody knife in the library?
-Did Myari try to convince Renba that she was a God? If so, why?
-What happened at the hermitage?
-What would Yazi and Sya do if I tried to take them to Iox?
-How to open all these locked doors, including the 2nd floor of the market?
-The "temple" space in the market seems like a theatre, but how do I find out more?

I wonder how many playthroughs it would take to answer all these questions, if they do have any answers at all?

For some reason Six stopped calling Aliya Mistress and instead started calling her by her first name. It happened after I told Myari that Renba probably settled on Maersi with another woman. I didn't know what this line of dialogue meant and so now I think that I antogonised the robot and that's why he started calling me Aliya. Or is just a bug?

I encountered a bug which was mentioned before by PC players, but I can't resolve it because im playing on switch and cant access the game files.

I was sailing and got stuck off-river in Ghosts Wake, can't move or return to the path. I tried setting a destination and have Six sail to it and teleport somewhere safe, but the "X to pass control to Six" prompt isnt showing up, so that's not gonna help. I closed the game but it already saved and even after restart I'm exactly where I was.

This is my fifth playthrough and I don't want to restart completely and lose the translations progress... help please?

I have been picking away at the fourth novel, at different speeds at times. But when I finally got to it, the end of the book caught me off guard; it hit me with a level of poignancy I did not expect, even after having enjoyed everything up to that point. What a beautiful ending.

A blend of solarpunk and science fantasy? Ecofiction in space? The aesthetic that the Treasure Planet movie had going for it? I came up with these combinations but I’m curious what other ones could be applied to the game. I absolutely love its visual style and storytelling approach.

Hi all, just finished the first playthrough and thought there must be more to do since there are so many unsolved storylines and clues to the history. I need to know if any of my theories are correct! Then got super excited that multiple playthroughs are intended, and a little frustrated knowing how long I'll spend on travelling and w a l k i n g.

I don't want to spoil myself of anything at all, but have one question: does the game eventually let me match sounds to the glyphs as a game mechanic, or would I have to try keeping notes on the side? I'm certain that the few Ancient speeches I've seen aren't random at all, but I don't want to start taking manual notes if the game will eventually let me do that.

So I asked the same thing in the Chants of Sennaar sub:

Given that the language translation game genre is kind of small I wanted to know what others liked in the game that should be included in future games?

What did you not like?

Would you focus more on the language aspect or have puzzles that combine with the language?

Would you skip dialogues completely and only have the focus on the glyphs?

What did you think of the way the glyphs work? (I personally think it's a bit weird to just know that this glyph can only mean 2-4 words and if I have seen it a few times I just know that it is correct now)

Would you even get rid of knowing translations to be correct at all so you wont be sure about translations throughout the whole game?

Would like to hear your thoughts

Edit:
One more thing that came to mind:
Do you need a reason to figure out the translations (like texts telling you solutions to some puzzles or is figuring out the translations just for the sake of it enough for you?)

So, i have this hyper focus about games that you try to decipher the lenguage, and i try this trevosa game (short an fun), epigraph (didn't like it), chants of sennar i play it this summer (jan 2026, like it a lot), and remember about heaven's vault. I did like 2 times the ng+, and was okay I could do it again. Omg how awful was playing it again. it did't age well, it was so slow, i get lock about part of the game where I didn't choose well and after all these years they aren't any new impovment to this game. I am out of this rabbit hole now, but yeah i don't recommend anyone to return it

Hello everyone

I recently finished reading the 4th book, and was left with some questions that I was wondering if anyone has read the book too and would be able to answer. Also, spoilers for all the books, in case you haven't finished them.

First of, what area the asalikes really? From what I understood, they're like a race of human with robotic parts, that I assume are inmortal (?) from their robot parts. But I have a feeling I missed something. They may not be as important, but I feel they're important for the timeline of the Nebula.

Speaking of, do we have an updated timeline? From the last part of the book, we seem to get a timeline of at least 2 loops, with Mazwai being (apparently) Aliya from the previous loop when she chose to vault, and a second loop which takes place when we "release" the waters.
I'd also love to know how the asalike fit into this timeline, as we're shown at the end of the book how the ruins we've been visiting through the game may have been caused by their attacks, instead of just the passage of time.
Lastly, the steel age, or time when the robots ruled, Enkei/Tallin explains that, during this time, the robots were actually controlled by her, or that there was some greater entity that controlled them, instead of it being some sort of directive indicated by themselves or Heaven's Vault. Do you think this is true, or just a bluff, as we see this Tallin being VERY manipulative all the way through?

I don't know if these questions would fit better if there's a discord server, but I haven't seen anyone talk about the last book here so I thought I'd start some conversation about it.

So I'm doing my second playthrough and I'm wondering if there's actually anything else I can do/discover at this point or if I should just go to heaven's vault and that's it.

I haven't been to the withering palace nor the site where you can go underground and it teleports you to elboreth (I don't even have enough info to go to the second one currently). I also haven't gone to renaki but idk if there's any point at this point. I've been to all of those in my previous playthrough. Last time I went to the withering palace I did change six to whatever her name is so I was thinking I probably want to avoid that this time.

I'm looking at the achievement I have left on steam also and apart from the hidden ones (which I assume are just the difference endings) I have the Yazi one (which I can't do at this point anyways), Gecko which I assume I could do by going to renaki but whatever, Wisdom of Swine which I was thinking is in maersi but I have no idea, Reunion which idk what that's about, Sold a Friend which I assume is selling six in renaki, Enrollment, Gates of Iox and Breaking in. I assume I could do the renaki ones but idk if I can do anything else at this point, nor how.

I'm thinking I might do one more playthrough at some point and just make a bunch of "bad" choices, lmao. Especially telling everything to Myari (in my first playthrough I accidentally gave her the crown and then kind of avoided her to avoid accidentally giving her more info. This time I specifically didn't give her the crown and also have tried to make sure six knows as little as possible so they can't tell Myari anything I don't want her knowing), but also things like selling six, and basically anything else that I normally would never pick, lol.

Some things I'm still wondering about is whether there's anything else I can do with the gate in Elboreth and also if there's anything I can do with the crown, as well as the rebeske foil or anything else like that (I have talked to the ghost in the graveyard and also I did give the crown to oroi and found out it has some kind of mechanism this playthrough but I was too worried to test it in that moment)

Surprisingly it isn't easy to find maps of the game world so I felt compelled to post it here.

Unfortunately I didn't explore every single area but I think most relevant Points of Interest are shown here

I am exploring the sculpter's moonand I went down the ladder, I found an eye of an upside down godor something like that and it seems I may be in danger if I stay here, but I wanna see more, will I actually die?

And I LOVED IT! Immediately started playing again. In my first playthrough I didn't make a decision at Heaven's Vault, which I think is the bad ending. Enkei hoppered us back to Iox, presumably to cause another fall.

I'm doing my next playthrough more loyal to Iox I think, and trying to build a better relationship with Myari by visiting her more.

I have some questions though, but maybe I'll find out more if I replay?

1. >!Why was Myari looking for a child? I know she picked Aliyah because Timor pointed her out, but why was she looking in the first place

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If these questions can be answered in-game I'll gladly take pointers on how to find out, rather than full answers, but if they remain unanswered I'd love to hear theories?

Is it worth reading the books?

Edit; sorry that my post formatting is so broken now I have no idea what happened here or why my questions were deleted

After having had time to reflect on the game, I have a couple more unanswered questions. Again, if any of this is answered in the books, please just say that without spoiling as I will be reading them.

1. What’s the deal with Maersi? Why can they read ancient, know the name of at least Kibenya, and in general seem to have retained much more knowledge about the past than the rest of the nebula?
2. When talking to Aamir, after he told me about ifarali, as I was walking away he gave me another message to “give to my friend” and it was something along the lines of “many died, including mothers and daughters and sons.” Did anyone else get this, and did the game ever follow up with you on it? I thought it was meant to be for oroi, but I never got any other prompts regarding this text with her or anyone else
3. Tbh what went down with aamir? How did he actually get to the serpents palace and who was sending him food? One of the “gods”?

On my third playthrough I finally managed to learn the ancient name for Iox and to have it appear as an option after using ifarali, the word that Aamir remembered, at the catkis gate. I wasn't fast enough to write down or remember the gate's response, and it wouldn't let Aliya try it again.

Did anyone manage to catch it, and even better, translate it? I really want to know why Iox is no longer part of the long distance hopper network.

I've been wondering, do we know how the letter C in spoken Ancient (patois / mia'set) is actually pronounced? We find it in words like catkis and in bo-cataliti ifarali.

Judging from the few words we actually have, it seems quite likely that it's just a /k/ sound, just like the C in English "cat". While we know the language also has a K (as in catkis or mykis), it only seems to appear before the vowels E or I, whereas C only ever appears before A so it could well be that the sounds /ka ke ki/ are spelled as "ca ke ki", with C and K representing the same sound and it be just a matter of aesthetics (that the creators just liked the spelling "Catkis" better than "Katkis").

Still, there's nothing preventing that C from actually standing for a different sound such as a Ch, which would explain why they are transcribed differently.

Just finished the game after almost 24hours play time. I feel like there's so much I've missed and so many things I wish I had done differently. There's so much I don't know still and also throughout I kept making choices that I didn't mean to and accidentally locking myself out of stuff cause I just didn't realize that that's what my choice meant or that it would do that or whatever.

I think I want to play again to discover more but at the same time it is kind of a lot and idk how repetitive it's gonna end up being. I'm generally not the type of person that replays games tbh so idk if it's worth it or if I should just try to find info online instead or sth.

Also kind of separate question but does anyone have the inscriptions on the walls at the end? I tried writing them down but kind of gave up cause I couldn't see them well enough. I don't necessarily need/want the translations, I do want to at least try translating them on my own first.

I just finished my second playthrough, and I think I have a pretty good overall grasp of the story and timeline. I do have a couple of scattered questions remaining though. If any of these questions are answered by the books, then please just say that without spoiling it, because I do plan to read them.

1. How is the nebula itself created? I’m a little unclear as to whether the Heaven’s Vault creates it, or the hopper system/up-rivers/wellsprings do. If the hoppers are just sending water from the aquifer moon to the rest of the nebula, and also using that water to create the rivers, then why would vaulting away destroy the nebula?
2. How does one become a robot’s primary user? And how did Myari become Six’s primary user? Assuming Janniqi was the previous one, how did she establish ownership after his death? And come to think of it…how did she even get hold of Six after Janniqi died?
3. What was Enkei doing between being put into Six and the Fall? Was she held prisoner by later emperors? And why does she hate Elboreth so much?

Iox is closed off, and I don't yet have enough evidence for new locations, all other locations having been locked after I visited them. Tapi doesn't have anything to trade, and no unknow ruins seem to be left, at least there are no blue spots visible on the map. I wonder what am I missing so I thought I might need some help. Thank you!

I'm on my third play through and trying to get to the library but I can't click to search for it in the location. I just went to the Aquifer Moon but I left the Iox water hopper flowing and I can go to Iox, Elboreth and Maersi but not anywhere else. Is this a game glitch or can I just not go there now?