--- title: "Hadean Lands - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store" description: "" --- # Hadean Lands — United States > Interactive Alchemical Fiction ![Hadean Lands App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple114/v4/cf/04/f5/cf04f5d3-47bc-ad22-036e-716834e5761d/AppIcon-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-85-220-10.png/434x0w.png) **Developer:** [Andrew Plotkin](https://apptail.io/developer/andrew-plotkin-wxd) **Category:** Games **Rating:** 5.0/5 (15 ratings) **Price:** Free **Bundle ID:** com.eblong.hadeanlands **Store:** Apple App Store **Country:** United States **Version:** 1.2.3 (released 2018-12-31) **Original Release:** 2014-10-31 **Languages:** English **App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id918958300) **AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/hadean-lands-wxDg/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/hadean-lands-wxDg/united-states) ## Hadean Lands Description No description available. ## Hadean Lands Rating Breakdown in United States - 5 stars: 15 (100%) - 4 stars: 0 (0%) - 3 stars: 0 (0%) - 2 stars: 0 (0%) - 1 stars: 0 (0%) ## Hadean Lands Reviews in United States ### ***** "Unique and absorbing" This game is unlike any other adventure game I have ever played, combining a mystery adventure, puzzles, a new take on the sci-fi genre. Think Myst meets WH4K crossed with Simon the Sorcerer. -- Abbrown, 2023-05-14 ### ***** "VERY DIFFICULT" This game is brilliantly crafted, the mountaintop of Interactive Fiction. I found it to be very difficult and time consuming. I’ve considered myself to be fairly adept at Interactive fiction, but I eventually had to resort to walkthroughs, as I had run out of personal time (and energy) to play this. The play is fair, creative, forgiving and well written. The alchemical aspect, as well as the unique time-space malleability make for a world with almost an almost dizzying array of options, and a dimension of problem solving (layers of cascading dependencies) I hadn’t encountered before. If you are a beginner at Interactive fiction, or (like me) you enjoy a casual puzzler now and then, you may want to skip this for now, and save this title for later. But DO PLAY it when you can dedicate a level of time, concentration and dedication that a master puzzle requires. -- Prosilire, 2018-01-07 ### ***** "Incredible work" This is one of the deepest and cleverest pieces of interactive fiction every created. The iOS version has some very nice ease of use features, like being able to see a log of things you have learned, a map with tap-to-move, and the option to tap a word in the text to insert it into the prompt. This might be my favorite version of the game, but I recommend playing it with a Bluetooth keyboard if you can. -- Raygan, 2016-10-03 ### ***** "Innovative yet classic" I've played a lot of interactive fiction games, but I've rarely beaten them. Usually, I get stuck on a difficult puzzle and I am not interested in the fiction enough to stick with it. This game haunted me for several days until I beat it. On the puzzles - they are very challenging, and the game rewards you for exploring and does a good job of giving you hints through the game world itself. You feel really smart when you figure out the little twists you can do with some rituals. I did need a couple of hints, but once I got them they were head-slappers I could have figured out myself. I think a lot of the reason this game was enjoyable all the way through for me was the unique and interesting setting (a wrecked alchemical starship stuck in some kind of time loop). It made all the room locations and equipment overall locale very interesting all by itself, even without interaction. On the writing, part of what makes the game great is that it really plays to the strength of the format - if this game had graphics, it wouldn't be as good. The text works in the brain in a way that is much more immersive and moving than a graphical game can be, IMO. Stylistically, it's sharp and concise, without lacking detail. It also is playful to interact with the world and your inventory and the game feels very responsive. On game design and coding - the "flow" of the game comes across at a very enjoyable pace. I found myself making many sections of great strides, punctuated by short gaps of having to dig deeper to discover what to do next. Every discovery leads to the next, and there are many tidbits that you can see but not use right away that make it intriguing to puzzle through. I also liked how the reset mechanism worked as a game mechanic AND a literary plot device. And it's great to see many people furiously discussing the ending and debating what REALLY happened aboard the Retort. And I love that there IS no set answer for it - the plot itself is a puzzle and it changes as you play. The technical innovations for this type of game - with the short cutting of known rituals and being able to jump around using the map were big pluses for me, having been a longtime fan of IF - it's neat to see an old dog doing new tricks, as it were. I could go on and on - it's a great game. If you've loved IF in the past, this game will make you love it again. If you've never played IF, this game will make you love it (or hate it) but it will spoil you, as it mig -- ColinT games, 2015-02-04 ### ***** "Deeper than it looks" On day 1, you'll think this is an interesting little text-based adventure game. By day 3, you'll realize it's the best such game ever written and will set the bar for all future games in this genre. Incredible. -- jmi11s, 2015-01-17 ### ***** "Delightful and brilliant" Fun fun game. Zarf has outdone himself. -- Brian9061, 2014-12-07 ### ***** "Brilliant, innovative parser-based interactive fiction" To get this out of the way: this is IF/text adventure, but it's not about solving mazes and playing guess-the-verb. It is about intricate, fascinating puzzles with a unique iterative mechanic that gives you a sense of mastery; a detailed, coherent alternate universe based on alchemy; and an overall meta-puzzle as the player tries to figure out what happened, not to mention who he/she is. Innovative parser commands streamline gameplay so you're thinking about the game, not the mechanics, and the iOS interface gives you an interactive map and journal, as well as multiple ways of minimizing typing. The game is a joy to play, but fair warning: it swallowed up an entire week of my time. -- Inconstant Reader, 2014-11-21 ### ***** "Wow" This game is amazing. It’s fundamentally a text adventure, and anyone who’s played Zork or even the original Adventure game will have no trouble figuring out the types of commands it’s likely to understand. But there are some player aids, such as separate tabs with a pre-drawn map, a list of the alchemical rituals you know, and a page for your own notes. You won’t need a pile of scratch paper like you did with Zork-era adventures. Still, if you’re not into typing commands at a game, you might not like it. But the writing is excellent, the puzzles are thematic, difficult, and multi-layered, and you will get drawn into the game’s curious world. If I had to find a fault, it would be that the ending is on the bleak side. But you’ll have lots of fun getting to the ending (and you won’t get there very quickly in any case). -- tgl42, 2014-11-19 ### ***** "Absolutely fantastic" I really thoroughly enjoyed the game and feel this is one of the best interactive fiction games I've played. Truly phenomenal and detailed. -- JTTraub, 2014-11-16 ### ***** "Intricate and amazing" I've played interactive fiction for many years, so I was excited to find such a complex, rich game. Plotkin's games are always interesting, but this really is his best yet, from the way the story and the world are constructed as you play, to the alchemical puzzles. (Beginners might start with the Dreamhold instead.) -- Curiosity jones, 2014-11-14 [View all Hadean Lands reviews and detailed analytics on AppTail](https://app.apptail.io/signup?utm_campaign=ai-crawl&utm_content=reviews) ## Hadean Lands Available In - [United States](https://apptail.io/app/hadean-lands-wxDg/united-states) - [France](https://apptail.io/app/hadean-lands-wxDg/france) - [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/hadean-lands-wxDg/israel) - [Dominican Republic](https://apptail.io/app/hadean-lands-wxDg/dominican-republic) - [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/hadean-lands-wxDg/lebanon) --- ## About AppTail [AppTail](https://apptail.io) is a mobile app intelligence platform providing app analytics, ASO (App Store Optimization) tools, keyword tracking, competitor analysis, revenue estimates, and review monitoring for iOS App Store apps. 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