Vault of Stars
Speedrun puzzle game — Fifteen sealed vaults on an alien moon. Time the laser grids, slip past sentry drones, drift across zero-g fields and reach the airlock before your oxygen runs out. Zone 5’s Legends game.
Puzzle Space Ultra · Zone 5 👑 Legends game Free · no sign-up · no download
How to play Vault of Stars
- Move one tile per step with the arrow keys, WASD, a swipe or the on-screen pad.
- Everything moves on the same clock, so each vault plays out the same way every time.
- Laser emitters flicker one beat before they fire.
- Reach the airlock before the oxygen gauge empties; collect key cards to open force-field doors.
Controls: Move: arrows or WASD, or swipe (touch: D-pad) · Restart the vault: Space twice or ⟲ (costs a life).
💡 Clear a vault within half a second of its par time for the Speed of Light badge.
Press P to pause and M to mute. Works on desktop, tablet and phone.
Levels, bonus rounds and scoring
Vault of Stars is game 30 of 42 on Quick Play Arcade, in Zone 5 · Beyond (Ultra difficulty). Every game is open to everyone; the zones are the recommended order, and playing all six games of a zone completes it.
- Every level is a little faster than the last, with something new every few levels.
- Every 5th level is a bonus round: no way to lose, a timer and lots of points. Clear it to unlock a checkpoint you can start from next time.
- Chain hits quickly to raise your combo multiplier.
- Make the top 20 and type a nickname to go on the public leaderboard — no account needed. Boards reset daily and weekly.
The Legends secret
Vault of Stars is Zone 5 · Beyond's Legends game. Start at vault 1 and clear all 15 without losing a life. Something is waiting beyond vault 15… Win the egg to enter the Hall of Legends — and all 5 Golden Eggs together win the Golden Crown.
“Legends say something deep inside the moon is still sending a signal…”
Badges in Vault of Stars
- First Contact — Clear vault 1
- Relic Hunter — Collect every crystal in a vault
- Speed of Light — Clear a vault from vault 2 on within half a second of its par time
- Zero-G — Drift 8 tiles in one go
- Blackout — Clear a dark vault without losing a life in it
- Hull Breach — Reach the airlock of the Core Chamber after the hull breaches
- Cache Raider — Grab 40 crystals in one relic cache
- Deep Space — Reach vault 10
- 1 secret badge — keep playing…
Win the zone's Golden Egg and Vault of Stars unlocks a golden character: the Golden Astronaut.
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