01 / Prepare
Your next voyage starts at home.
Choose adventurers, sort equipment and pursue tavern and Ancient Chest quests. Develop classes across expeditions rather than starting every journey from nothing.
Independent game studio · Games, music & uncharted worlds
Worlds worth
exploring.
Chest & Compass creates thoughtful adventures with a hand-built spirit. Our first game, Vaultara, is available in Steam Early Access.
01 / The studio
Small crew.
Long horizons.
We make independent games with curiosity, patience, and respect for the player’s time. Worlds with texture. Systems with consequences. Stories that leave room for discovery.
This website is our permanent logbook: a quiet, direct line between the work and the people who care about it—without advertising, tracking, or an algorithm in the middle.
02 / Our first expedition
Available in Early Access
Chest & Compass:Isles of Vaultara
A safe tavern. Dangerous isles. A crew worth bringing home.
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Prepare at the tavern, choose your crew, and sail into procedural voxel islands. Vaultara is a single-player tactical RPG with roguelite expeditions: every grid battle asks you to weigh movement, range, terrain and the next turn.
Bring treasures and rescued adventurers home to a permanent roster. Equipment, crew progression and the Ancient Chest give each return a purpose—and each new departure a different starting point.
- Platform
- Windows
- Play
- Single-player
- Interface
- English & Polish
- Availability
- Early Access
02 / Adapt
Read the island. Read the battle.
Procedural islands lead into grid combat with speed-based turns. Range, positioning and terrain shape the choices your crew can make.
03 / Return
Make room for what matters.
Rescue castaways, manage boat cargo and decide what to carry home. Returning survivors and their equipment become part of the next expedition.
03 / Music from the isles
A world,
in music.
Two collections from the same horizon: the original music of Vaultara, and a tribute to the games that helped inspire it.
Explore the music project
01 / The original soundtrack
VaultaraOriginal Soundtrack
Original music from the game: voyages, expeditions and battles.
Artwork & tracklist Watch music video
02 / The tribute collection
Vaultar-EdA Tribute to Gaming Classics
Classic game melodies reimagined in Vaultara’s musical style, for players who remember the adventures behind them.
Artwork & tracklist04 / Field journal
Notes from the making.
Milestones from Vaultara’s development, collected from our Steam updates.
New Tales, Old Secrets
Stories, character progression and a clearer first expedition: the work behind update 1.4.
Special Missions & Combat Polish
Tavern questlines open into special expeditions, with clearer quests and sharper combat feedback.
Crew & Cargo: bringing the voyage home
A permanent roster, space for the haul and a proper account of what made it home.
Along the way
Support the
next voyage.
If you enjoy what we’re making, you can help the next voyage take shape. Play Vaultara, share the work with a friend, or send us a note—ideas, feedback and encouragement are welcome.
05 / Correspondence
Send a considered
dispatch.
Chest & Compass is a small independent studio. Email is our preferred asynchronous way to hear from players, press, creators, and fellow travellers.