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Vaporum: Lockdown
Vaporum: Lockdown, a prequel to Vaporum, is a grid-based dungeon crawler RPG in an original steampunk setting, inspired by old-school classics of the genre. Follow the story of Ellie Teller, a scientist struggling to survive disastrous events that happened in the tower of Arx Vaporum.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played“Compared to the first one this version was very hard. The first one had a lot of monsters to kill, and it was fun to choose what builds to make. This one really didn't matter how you made the characters build. Because 90% of the game felt like very hard puzzles for every single…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs playedLatest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
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Our upcoming game GRAVELORD has a Steam page!
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Fatbot's New Game
Hi, fellow dungeon crawlers! We've been silent for a long time, but it's about to change! We will finally announce a new game soon! If you want to follow our road to the announcement, building up to t
The Age of Vaporum is Over (for now at least)
What's next for Fatbot Games? Dear fans! On behalf of the whole team, let me wish you all good health and stability in this unstable and dangerous time. We highly appreciate the effort and sacrifice o
MAC & LINUX Versions Available NOW! (Vaporum: Lockdown - Patch #4)
Hey, guys and gals! While Patch #4 is smaller in terms of changes and fixes, it's actually a big deal -- the game is now released on Mac & Linux! Work on the Switch port is well underway already, so t
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · Indie · Action · Adventure · Dungeon Crawler · Grid-Based Movement · Steampunk · First-Person · Old School · Tactical RPG · Retro · Puzzle (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 46 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://fatbot-games.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 (64-bit), Windows 8 (64-bit), Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: 2.5 Ghz Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor or AMD equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 400 series 512 MB video card or AMD equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 6 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card