Learn rituals as an apprentice alchemist in a grand text-based adventure.
Here is an excerpt from Hadean Lands' Steam description:
Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland — your starship fractured — your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive?
Hadean Lands is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
(Keyboard controls only. Because you have to type everything. Get it?)
Hadean Lands is a game of alchemy and exploration, with an intricate structure of interlinked puzzles. Every ritual you learn adds a new ability to your toolkit. But every ritual requires a different combination of ingredients, and some ingredients are in desperately short supply.
The game's sophisticated goal-tracking system permits you to experiment freely! Any ritual you've learned can be performed with a single command. Any puzzle that you've ever solved can be re-solved automatically. Click on the in-game map to travel to any room you're familiar with; the goal system will even find known keys and re-solve intermediate puzzles to get there. But beware: many puzzles have multiple solutions. If the ones you've found don't fit together, you may have to go searching for alternatives...
| Developer | Andrew Plotkin |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Andrew Plotkin |
| Release date | 30 October 2014 |
| Genres | Adventure, Puzzle |
| Vibes | Funny, Mysterious, Fantasy |
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