Hadean Lands

Hadean Lands is a text adventure about an apprentice alchemist stranded in an airless alien wasteland. Your starship is fractured and your crewmates are missing. You explore, learn alchemical rituals and try to survive while uncovering what happened and why.

Alchemy and exploration

The game is built around interlinked puzzles. Each ritual you learn gives you a new ability, but performing it requires a particular combination of ingredients, some of which are in short supply. To repair the alchemical starship, you search for ingredients and improvise substitutions, using processes such as calcining, distilling, dissolving and precipitating.

Puzzles and progress

You type commands and read what happens next. The goal-tracking system lets you perform any ritual you have learned with a single command and automatically repeat puzzles you have already solved. You can use the in-game map to travel to any familiar room; the system can find known keys and solve intermediate puzzles along the way. Since many puzzles have multiple solutions, you may need to find alternatives when the solutions you know do not fit together.