Hadean Lands
Zarfhome Software Developer
Zarfhome Software Publisher
2016-06-20 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Positive
(41 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:- Hadean Lands linux-x64 [109.02 M]
- Hadean Lands linux-ia32 [113.54 M]
Available DLCs:- Hadean Lands - Solo Adventurer Pledge Certificate
Hadean Lands FAQHow do I play interactive fiction? This looks very weird.
This is parser-based interactive fiction, a very old style of adventure game. I first played a game like this in about 1978.
Here's an introduction to playing this kind of game.
How come a text game takes 125 megabytes of space?
Yeah, it's a little bulky. Hadean Lands is based on a cross-platform interactive fiction app called Lectrote, which in turn uses a framework called Electron, which is turn is based on Chrome. So basically you've got two megabytes of IF game file, plus a half megabyte of Javascript interpreter code -- plus Node.js and a bundled web browser.
It's not the most efficient way to release a text game, but it was the best way to provide a great IF interface across Mac, Windows, and Linux.
It's a bit slow.
See above. The interpreter is written in Javascript. But it should be playable on any modern desktop computer.
Now, if you were to look through the Steam app directory for a file called "HadeanLands.ulx" -- that would be a portable Glulx game file. You could copy that out and play it in a native IF interpreter such as Gargoyle, and it would be quite a bit faster. (And not take 125 megabytes.) But then you wouldn't have the nice map and journal interface.
What's this about DLC?
See the store page for more information about that.
Where do I find hints?
Hadean Lands does not come with hints or a walkthrough.
If you decide you need a hint -- and you might not! -- then I recommend asking other players. Hint-giving works best in a community. The Steam forums will certainly have open topics for getting help.
Failing that, there are also some very thorough fan walkthroughs out on the Net. I won't link to them, but a web search will lead you there.
What other IF have you written?
Hadean Lands is the only IF game that I am selling on Steam. Most of my older games are available on my web site for free!
[ 2016-06-05 22:36:38 CET ] [ Original post ] Hadean Lands FAQHow do I play interactive fiction? This looks very weird.
This is parser-based interactive fiction, a very old style of adventure game. I first played a game like this in about 1978.
Here's an introduction to playing this kind of game.
How come a text game takes 125 megabytes of space?
Yeah, it's a little bulky. Hadean Lands is based on a cross-platform interactive fiction app called Lectrote, which in turn uses a framework called Electron, which is turn is based on Chrome. So basically you've got two megabytes of IF game file, plus a half megabyte of Javascript interpreter code -- plus Node.js and a bundled web browser.
It's not the most efficient way to release a text game, but it was the best way to provide a great IF interface across Mac, Windows, and Linux.
It's a bit slow.
See above. The interpreter is written in Javascript. But it should be playable on any modern desktop computer.
Now, if you were to look through the Steam app directory for a file called "HadeanLands.ulx" -- that would be a portable Glulx game file. You could copy that out and play it in a native IF interpreter such as Gargoyle, and it would be quite a bit faster. (And not take 125 megabytes.) But then you wouldn't have the nice map and journal interface.
What's this about DLC?
See the store page for more information about that.
Where do I find hints?
Hadean Lands does not come with hints or a walkthrough.
If you decide you need a hint -- and you might not! -- then I recommend asking other players. Hint-giving works best in a community. The Steam forums will certainly have open topics for getting help.
Failing that, there are also some very thorough fan walkthroughs out on the Net. I won't link to them, but a web search will lead you there.
What other IF have you written?
Hadean Lands is the only IF game that I am selling on Steam. Most of my older games are available on my web site for free!
[ 2016-06-05 22:36:38 CET ] [ Original post ] 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...
Repairing an alchemical starship single-handed? Not easy; perhaps impossible. You’ll have to discover the rituals you need, and then search for ingredients, and then improvise and substitute. You’ll have to calcine, distill, dissolve, and precipitate. And somehow, somewhere, you’ll have to figure out what happened and why.

MINIMAL SETUP- OS: Ubuntu 12.04
- Processor: 1GHzMemory: 256 MB RAM
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- Graphics: Any
- Storage: 60 MB available space
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