ISS Vanguard Companion

Awaken Realms

About this game

This official ISS Vanguard Companion App allows you to enjoy a fully voiced narrative with music and special effects. It also automatically remembers your choices, entirely replacing the paper Logbook and Operations Book in your playthrough.

We recommend using this companion app for the best, most immersive narrative experience.

Key Features:
* A fully digital, up-to-date version of the ISS Vanguard Logbook and Operations Book.
* Many hours of high-quality voiceovers and music.
* Automatically saves your decisions and simplifies some game state checks.
* Supports multiple concurrent campaigns.

ISS Vanguard board game required! See https://issvanguard.com/ for details.

Ratings and reviews

This app needs work. A log of your previous entries should be somewhere. Also, why doesn't this app have Chromebook support? Seems obvious when you are playing with big group. I will say that the writing and story are excellent. But the music could definitely use more variety. I'm hoping that the app sees continued updates and support so this game stays fresh.

Sound doesn't work over bluetooth for some reason. Music is a short loop of single track, despite the fact there are 18 music tracks in the app files among other unused assets. Eats battery like crazy. Selecting from options requires you to scroll instead of simply tapping = very bad UX. Discrepencies between log text and voiceover. Overall it seems needlessly overengineered, but massively underdeveloped at the same time. Giving two stars purely for the quality of voiceovers.

Clunky and unintuitive UI. Battery killer. Hard to navigate and check logbook history. Music is on like a 45 second loop. No clear way to tell which log you are reading most of the time. Expansion logbook VA not supported as of this review. Game is phenomenal, but if the devs are as proud of this game as they should be, they should also commit resources to improving this companion app. It's a shame and a big disappointment at this time, but I'm hopeful since the game is clearly polished.

What's new

Operations book implementation.
Access to saved flags.
Improved readability of the interface.