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The Banished Vault

The most breathtaking expanse in is the one between its premise and how enjoyable it is to play. Developed by Lunar Division, this space strategy promises a melancholy adventure in the void, as you guide a floating monastery through a doomed galaxy succumbing to an entity known as the Gloom. Unable to stop the destruction, your devout pioneers instead dedicate themselves to memorialising the cosmos that is being consumed, inscribing a record of their journey as they travel from star to star. It’s a scintillating setup, the kind that would power a literary space opera. Yet in practice is far less interested in words than it is in numbers. Playing isn’t so much about

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