A World That Remembers
Systemic consequence engine — every fire you light and every outpost you abandon reshapes factions, weather, and the ending you earn.
The last sun is dying, and the sky is falling in pieces. Descend as the final Vanguard — hold the dark, and reignite a world that refuses to go quiet.
Seven centuries after the colony sun Vesper began to fail, the last cities cling to the light of a collapsing corona. You are Kaine Vero — the final Vanguard, engineered to breathe in the dark and burn where others freeze.
One seamless world, no loading screens. Descend from orbital ruin to the drowned spires below in a single unbroken shot. Every settlement you save, or let the cold take, rewrites the map, the weather, and who marches beside you into the last night.
Systemic consequence engine — every fire you light and every outpost you abandon reshapes factions, weather, and the ending you earn.
Gunplay, gravity blades, and vertical traversal flow through one unbroken camera. No hard cuts, no cooldown menus — just momentum.
Two-player co-op woven into the story. A second Vanguard can drop into any beat, at any time, with no lobbies and no seams.
An adaptive orchestral score by Ola Sundqvist reads your intent, swelling and receding with every choice you make in the dark.
Pre-order any edition and receive the Ashglass Weapon Set and 72-hour early Vanguard access at launch.
The full VESPER campaign for the solo descent.
The complete first year of the Long Dark Saga.
A numbered set for the last of the Vanguard. Limited to 12,000.
SSD is mandatory. 4K / 120 FPS on RTX 4080-class hardware. DualSense and full ultrawide (21:9) support at launch.
Add VESPER: Orbital Decay to your wishlist to be first into the beta descent and to lock in your pre-order bonuses.