
Factsheet
Developer:
Flightless
Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand
Release Date:
Jan 2020 (Apple Arcade) / Mar 2025 (App Store) / Aug 2021
Platforms:
iOS - App Store (Formerly Apple Arcade)
macOS - App Store (Formerly Apple Arcade)
Apple TV - App Store (Formerly Apple Arcade)
Steam
Nintendo eShop - US
Nintendo eShop - UK
Epic Games Store
Website:
doomsdayvaultgame.com
Regular Price:
App Store | Free / $2.99 |
Desktop Windows/Mac | $9.99 |
Nintendo Switch | $19.99 / €19.99 |
Description
Doomsday Vault. Rescue Earth’s precious plant life. In your robotic suit navigate a flooded city, break into an underground lair and explore ancient pyramids. Find and collect seeds and return them to the safety of the Vault. Nurture seeds to grow new sustainable crops. Unlock additional tools and items to customise your suit. You’re on a lone mission to rescue Earth’s precious plant life. Adventure around in your robotic suit using its tools and abilities to explore challenging environments. Locate and collect Earth’s precious remaining plant life. Rescue the seeds from these critical species and return them to the safety of the Vault. Find nutrients to nurture your seeds and grow a sustainable crop in your Vault. Progress through levels and grow crops to unlock additional tools and customise your robotic suit.
Enjoy this former Apple Arcade game, now available on the App Store.
Features
- Adventure missions to find precious seeds for the Vault
- Challenge mode with races, mazes, scores and leaderboards
- Vault to nurture seeds into crops
- Challenging puzzles and gameplay to suit all ages and experience
- Engaging 3D environments
- Play as the iconic DV Robot character
- Robot suit customisation
- Beautiful soundtrack and sound effects
- Helpful plant information
- Supports MFI, PlayStation and Xbox game controllers
- Supports Siri Remote on Apple TV
- Localisation support for 15 languages
- App Store: Free with single full game unlock in-app purchase. No ads or additional in-app purchases
Videos
Official Trailer YouTube, Doomsday_Vault_Official_Trailer.mp4
Images
Logo & Icon
Selected Articles
- "Apple Arcade’s latest release helps teach why preserving seeds is important. I’m happy to see a game like this on Apple Arcade, as it manages to combine both entertainment and education in a manner few developers ever achieve."
- Doomsday Vault impressions: A puzzler with an environmentalist message, Macworld, January 2020
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Monetization Permission
Flightless allows for the contents of Doomsday Vault to be published through video broadcasting services for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of videos created containing assets from Doomsday Vault is legally & explicitly allowed by Flightless. This permission can be found in writing at http://presskit.flightless.co.nz/sheet.php?p=doomsday+vault.
Additional Links
App Store (Formerly Apple Arcade)
Get Doomsday Vault on App Store: apps.apple.com.
About Flightless
Flightless is an indie games studio based in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. Founded in 2005 as a digital design company, we have transitioned into full-time games studio developing our own IP. Our substantial commercial work experience spans multi-award winning projects across museum and visitor experiences, games and moving image, online and the visual arts. Our approach produces original looking games that have a creative approach, a player centred focus, and often involve environmental themes.
More information
More information on Flightless, our logo & relevant media are available here.
Doomsday Vault Credits
John O'Reilly
Creative Director
Greg Harding
Technical Director
Grant Robinson
Game Design
Aaron Koolen-Bourke
Senior Developer
Trevor Nagel
Developer
Karl Springorum
3d Artist
Aaron Lewis
3d Artist
Eric Huang
3d Artist
Alex Hermosillo
Producer
Jeremy Cullen (External)
Music, Sound Effects
Melanie Graham (External)
Sound Effects
Apple Arcade version produced by Apple
Contact
Enquiries
press@flightless.co.nz
Twitter
twitter.com/flightlessnz
Instagram
instagram.com/flightlessnz
presskit() by Rami Ismail (Vlambeer) - also thanks to these fine folks