Adventure around the world in your robotic suit and use your suit's tools and abilities to explore challenging environments. You're on a lone mission in a post-climate collapse Earth. While Laura is normally found lost in the casual pastime of virtual farming, they also have Karl Urban's signature as "Bones" McCoy tattooed on their palm from a particularly edgy comic convention encounter in 2019.Earth's climate has collapsed and your mission is to collect the precious remaining plant life and return it to the safety of the Doomsday Vault.
Laura is known for diving into the narrative background of the Pokémon series, while also spinning long, complicated home-brew ideas for D&D players. Despite a 10-year career in Tech as a computer and coding specialist, Laura returned to writing and creative pursuits full-time in recent years, to inspire other creators to take big chances. Inspired by the breathtaking stories of writers like Anne McCaffrey, and the intricate complexities of game design, Laura has always had a passion for storytelling and visual narrative. Laura has been a returning guest on the Wizard of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons podcast Dragon Talk, is the illustrator for the children's book Seeds of Hope, and has spoken at comic conventions along the West Coast about Cosplay, pop culture, and literature. Living in Idaho, Laura focuses on reporting about Pokémon, farming simulation titles, Dungeons & Dragons, and family-friendly games while working as a book/comic illustrator.
Laura Gray is a Games Editor, Trainer, and Writer for Screen Rant, and has been part of the Screen Rant Games team since 2020. These cosmetic changes are a fun way to customize a suit for a unique, personal aesthetic. These include fun designs for the suit's body and helpful attachments. By achieving a certain number of different plant types, players are able to unlock upgrades and cosmetic changes for their robotic suit. The number of Nutrients successfully located are then used to determine how many of each seed can be grown. This is a large greenhouse where the seeds in Doomsday Vault can be planted and safely housed. However, each map can be attempted multiple times if not all the Nutrients are found in the first playthrough.Īfter solving the puzzles, players are brought back to their Vault. In order to grow the most of a single seed type, players will need to collect 100 percent of the nutrients hidden throughout the seed's map. They are found in small, green ringed tubes, and vary in size. Nutrients are hidden around the map, and often require the player to detour from the main path or solve particularly difficult terrain puzzles to collect. The primary goal of Doomsday Vault is to scour the map for Nutrients while attempting to locate a different seed in each map. Puzzle terrain in Doomsday Vault is primarily made up of destroyed buildings, abandoned junkyards, and ancient ruins that require inventive thinking to navigate. Doomsday Vault almost feels like a survival game, with the implication that the earth likely collapsed due to forces like pollution and overpopulation. Instead, players can draw their own conclusion about what occurred to the world by donning their robotic suit and venturing out into landscapes filled with broken buildings and wreckage. The story of Doomsday Vault is told without words or an overarching narrator. Doomsday Vault is a great choice for those looking to solve challenging puzzles with intuitive gameplay However, there are areas that would benefit from being fleshed out and increasing replayability.
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Players will be challenged with a series of terrain puzzles scaling in difficulty as they scavenge a world devastated by pollution, aiming to collect and grow a wide variety of plants found at the end of each map. Doomsday Vault is a simple indie puzzle game for the Nintendo Switch developed and published by Flightless.