Hadean Lands: Interactive Alchemical Fiction Reviews – Page 2
5/5 rating based on 12 reviews. Read all reviews for Hadean Lands: Interactive Alchemical Fiction for iPhone.
Hadean Lands: Interactive Alchemical Fiction is paid iOS app published by Andrew Plotkin
Incredible work
Raygan
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.
VERY DIFFICULT
Prosilire
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.