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Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

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Steam Deck not supported (sorry!)

Jul 25, 2022

I was able to do some Steam Deck testing this weekend. I'm sorry to say that Steam Deck is not a recommended Hadean Lands experience right now.

The problem is the on-screen keyboard. It wants to pop up and obscure the lower half of the text window -- which makes it hard to play. You could manually open and close the keyboard every turn, but that's no fun. Anyhow, the keyboard tends to get confused; sooner or later it either flickers or gets stuck.

I tried the "Web Browser" controller template, but that doesn't help.

It might be possible to improve the screen layout and lock the keyboard in place. However, you'd then be playing on the top half of the Steam Deck's landscape-oriented screen. It's just not a lot of space for text.

(Bluetooth keyboard? I couldn't get mine to pair. If you succeed, let me know if it works.)

The upshot is that parser-based IF support is not a priority for Steam Deck right now. Apologies! I'll let you know if that changes.

Hadean Lands

Making people pay for promise certificates...genius

Just in a very devilish way.

Broso

May 25, 2018 @ 1:40pm

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Release 2.2.1: Dark theme, Linux fixes

Aug 22, 2020

Update to the UI framework! (No changes to the game content.)

The game now supports OS dark theme. If you have your system OS theme set to "dark", all of the game windows (including the journal, map, preferences, and so on) will use a light-on-dark theme.

The *story* window will still be set to the color theme you last selected (Dark, Light, Sepia, Slate). You can adjust this to match in the preferences.

The preferences menu now has two system-responsive options: "Light/Dark" and "Sepia/Slate". These allow the story window to adjust if you switch your OS theme back and forth. I don't know why you would, but the game allows for it. (New players will see "Light/Dark" as the default preference.)

Other changes:

- The Electron framework has been updated to 8.4.1. This should fix the "harfbuzz" library error that some Linux users were seeing.
- There is a "Display Cover Art" menu option in the View menu, should you wish to bask in that.
- The Mac version is now notarized.

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Release 2.1.0: more UI updates

May 22, 2017

Various things that I've been meaning to clean up in the past year. (No changes to the game content.)

- In the journal window, you can now sort items by name or by date (the order you discovered them in the game).
- Added two new color themes: Sepia and Slate.
- Changed the "Reset" menu item to "Reset Completely" (to match the in-game command for completely starting over).
- Changed the "Close Window" menu item to "Close Game" for the main game window. (Except on Mac, sorry. The Mac's menu bar works poorly with this app framework.)
- Fixed a slight size miscalculation in the status window.
- Updated the Electron app framework to 1.4.16.

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Plea to Zarf

Please give us an other parser-based text adventure like this! It has been a long time since we have seen any new commercial text adventures. Is it possible that it's not even remotely profitable? Although many text adventures are created in numerous periodic competitions (IF COMP, Spring Thing...), it is very difficult, due to their free nature, to find titles of adequate size and ambition like Hadean Lands....

Fosforo

Feb 13 @ 1:43pm

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similar games

All time fave of mine, anyone got recs for other IF/parser games with similar vibes?

Titania

Sep 10, 2023 @ 7:34pm

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Shadow (foil) card market error?

Trying to get the foil cards for this and the Shadow foil card market never works. Steam > Hadean Lands Community Items > 376240-Shadow (Foil) There are no listings for this item. I can't set a buy order if I can't load the page.

bobb007

Sep 4, 2023 @ 1:16pm

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The open hint thread

So, certificate aside, you can ask for a hint if you really need one. Hadean Lands has no built-in hint system, so an open forum thread is the best way to go with this. I do not plan to offer hints myself -- you're the players! You've got this. Yes, there are walkthroughs out on the net. You can look there too. I think it's more fun (and more social, and less spoilery) to talk to other players than to search a walkthrough. But it's up to you. Enjoy. ...

zarf_home

Nov 8, 2022 @ 1:22pm

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